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FlightGear core deveoper Erik Hofman came up with the idea to preselect more appropriate default settings based on parsing various GL_* strings (in particular GL_VENDOR), i.e. detect the video card and based on the GL renderer name turn on [[ALS]] (or not), turn on water shader (or not), turn on the 3d city shader (or not), etc. | FlightGear core deveoper Erik Hofman came up with the idea to preselect more appropriate default settings based on parsing various GL_* strings (in particular GL_VENDOR), i.e. detect the video card and based on the GL renderer name turn on [[ALS]] (or not), turn on water shader (or not), turn on the 3d city shader (or not), etc. | ||
This approach is largely inspired by the way FlightGear already supports a variety of different joysticks and other I/O hardware using XML-configurable hardware profiles. | |||
The defaults would not be touched but based on the detected video card certain options would get enabled, making the first impression much more pleasant (for first time users). <ref>{{cite web | The defaults would not be touched but based on the detected video card certain options would get enabled, making the first impression much more pleasant (for first time users). <ref>{{cite web | ||