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== Background == | == Background == | ||
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 and GL_RENDERER), 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. | ||
At runtime, that data is already available in the form of properties that are copied to the property tree during initialization. | |||
== Idea == | == Idea == | ||