yes/no in .material and on/off in .particle

cdleonard · Post by **cdleonard** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:30 pm

I've discovered today that particle scripts accept yes/no and true/false for booleans; while materials accept on/off and true/false. Furthermore in a .particle script something like "point_rendering on" is not recognized and silently converted to false.

This is very very confusing. A limitation to true/false would be ideal but it would break older scripts. I suggest supporting the full range yes/no true/false on/off everywhere. This would eliminate a very unpleasant detail.

This should be a very easy fix and I'm willing to make patch. What do you think?

Frenetic · Post by **Frenetic** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:49 pm

Perhaps 0 / 1 should be supported as well?

Post by **Praetor** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:00 am

In the new compilers truth values support what you suggest: yes/no, on/off, and true/false in all scripts.

cdleonard · Post by **cdleonard** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:48 am

By new compilers you mean what will be released in ogre 1.6? That would be great.

Post by **Praetor** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:16 pm

The plan is to release them with 1.6 yes.