![]() ![]() (We would revisit this if Apple introduced a new API but I do not expect this to happen.) "This isn’t something we can fix with some future bit of cleverness – it’s a limitation of OS X’s APIs. However, Metal (which will run on Mac) is not able to use the technique described above. This means we can now support OpenGL-based weather/cloud plugins from inside a Vulkan render, which we did not think was possible before."Įssentially, weather plugins that draw in OpenGL can now draw in Vulkan. "We found one unexpected result from this redesign: when we finished rewriting the bridge, we ended up with code that could, in the case of Vulkan only, be used for 3-d drawing. ![]() That rework of the bridge is now done and things are looking quite a bit better on all fronts. "We also realized that we needed to change the design of that bridge to get much better compatibility. "While the initial bridge to connect OpenGL-based plugins to X-Plane worked pretty well, compatibility wasn’t perfect and we had a few bugs," wrote Ben Supnik. ![]()
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