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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby V12 » Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:46 pm

Yes, I did it. It was second step step. First was sudo apt-get install git because XUBUNTU 19.04 has not git in default install.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby SurferTim » Mon Sep 09, 2019 8:09 pm

My new A32X is still the same. All the other a/c I use seems ok.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby V12 » Mon Sep 09, 2019 8:42 pm

Looks like that below ?
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby V12 » Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:26 pm

Compiled on other machine with LUbuntu 19.04 and found that IDG Airbus has white numbers on AP panel, night lighting is OK :

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but Concorde is flawless :

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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby legoboyvdlp » Tue Sep 10, 2019 5:57 pm

If you have white text you still have the wrong OSG I'm afraid.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby V12 » Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:58 pm

FGFS - Help - About said, that my OSG version is 3.4.2 :

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I don't know where is problem, because Concorde's INS instruments uses TEXT and its color is OK. Here is code for one of INS's data display :

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<animation>
  <name>text track</name>
  <object-name>left text track</object-name>
  <object-name>right text track</object-name>
</animation>

<text>
  <name>left text track</name>
  <type type="string">number-value</type>
  <property alias="../../params/display-left"/>
  <format type="string">%5.2f</format>
  <draw-text type="bool">true</draw-text>
  <font>led.txf</font>
  <character-size type="double">0.011</character-size>
  <character-aspect-ratio type="double">1.0</character-aspect-ratio>
  <font-resolution>
   <width type="int">32</width>
   <height type="int">32</height>
  </font-resolution>
  <alignment>left-center</alignment>
  <axis-alignment>yz-plane</axis-alignment>
  <offsets>
   <pitch-deg>-90</pitch-deg>
   <x-m>-0.044</x-m>
   <y-m>-0.056</y-m>
   <z-m> 0.007</z-m>
  </offsets>
</text>

<animation>
  <type>material</type>
  <object-name>text track</object-name>
  <emission>
   <red>1.0</red>
   <green>0.7</green>
   <blue>0.0</blue>
   <factor-prop alias="../../../params/ins-light"/>
  </emission>
  <ambient>
   <red>1.0</red>
   <green>0.7</green>
   <blue>0.0</blue>
   <factor-prop alias="../../../params/ins-light"/>
  </ambient>
  <diffuse>
   <red>1.0</red>
   <green>0.7</green>
   <blue>0.0</blue>
   <factor-prop alias="../../../params/ins-light"/>
  </diffuse>
</animation>



With FG2018.3.1 is text yellow (OK), in FG2018.3.2 is white (wrong), similar with 2019.2.0 nightly build. With D/C builded FG2019.1.2 is yellow. Default FGADDON release with 2.5D cockpit has this texts yellow.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby legoboyvdlp » Wed Sep 11, 2019 9:33 pm

Could you please run git branch on the OSG source folder in the console and post exactly which branch you used?

I can guarantee with 99% confidence it's due to having the wrong branch; otherwise it's a driver / configuration issue?
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby V12 » Wed Sep 11, 2019 10:00 pm

Problem solved !
In /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu I found OSG 3.4.1 libraries. I deleted that files and Airbus again has nice numbers in AP panel.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby wkitty42 » Thu Sep 12, 2019 4:36 am

if you are building from the dnc script, this should not have been a problem... my old ubuntu 14.04 system doesn't exhibit such... it has a really old OSG installed as well as a really old PLIB and other similar libs that FG uses... i always reconfigure when using dnc specifically to try to thwart these types of errors...
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby V12 » Fri Sep 27, 2019 5:48 am

When someone will update D/C script on SF as described in lego's post ?

legoboyvdlp wrote in Fri Aug 16, 2019 7:44 pm:
1.

REPO_ADDRESS[OSG]="github.com/openscenegraph/osg.git"

becomes

REPO_ADDRESS[OSG]="github.com/zakalawe/osg.git"

2.

_gitUpdate OpenSceneGraph-3.4

becomes

_gitUpdate fgfs-342-1

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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby wkitty42 » Fri Sep 27, 2019 2:04 pm

V12 wrote in Fri Sep 27, 2019 5:48 am:When someone will update D/C script on SF as described in lego's post ?

if/when someone gets around to it IF the change is accepted...

you can always modify your local copy... in fact, i copy the script to a file name of my own and modify it as i like... then i use a tool like meld to compare and allow me to merge in new additions and changes...
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