Billboard Creation on Dedicated Server

[DavidWyand-GG]

Originally from this post: http://www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/132085/1#comment-836505

This probably isnt the best thread for this, but I know some of you are working with linux dedicated server so maybe this will help. I dont know if it has been fixed since i last merged in changes from the T3D dev branch for linux dedicated server but there is a bug with the Forest object and NULL GFX device. The actual bug has to do with imposters which the forest object uses. If you look in ts/tsShapeInstance.cpp in the function void TSShapeInstance::buildInstanceData(TSShape *_shape, bool loadMaterials) at the very end you will see:

if (loadMaterials && mShapeResource)   
    mShape->setupBillboardDetails( mShapeResource.getPath().getFullPath() );

The issue is that setupBillboardDetails should not run on a null GFX device (and the other time it is ran, there is a check for that)

So to fix it just change the code to this:

if (loadMaterials && mShapeResource && GFXDevice::devicePresent())   
    mShape->setupBillboardDetails( mShapeResource.getPath().getFullPath() );

-Tim

[DavidWyand-GG]

Fixed on development branch.