OSX performance in 2.0.X

[ascloutier]

First off, let me say that I'm very happy to see continued development of Wings. I've been a long time user ever since Nendo disappeared.

I just installed 2.0.3 on my iMac running OSX 10.11.4, 32GB Ram, GeForce GTX 680MX and camera performance is pretty poor compared to 1.5.3. I loaded up a couple models I've been working on in 1.5.3, game stuff so it's pretty low poly (1700 faces), and the camera rotation is notably jumpy. Low framerate look to it. Same model with the same actions is silky smooth in 1.5.3.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help with testing on Mac. I have a programming background too if it's helpful.

Thanks.

[tkbd]

Hi,ascloutier
Welcome to Wings forum
Mac user is a small number(I also Mac User).
You are a reassuring if good at English.

In Wings3D 2.xx have adopted wxWidgets.
Perhaps the speed in it has become slow.
wxWiget brought NativeUI/dialog, copy and paste of text, Improve of Input method.

Issues/changed that are currently been confirmed on a Mac....

• display issues on Intel Iris graphic driver.
  
• In help line text, it display to a native(for mac) hotkey character(for example ⌘) .
  
• Font loading path (Primitive > Text)
  

As you know OSX in a variety of formats (otf, ttf), it is can choose from the font dialog.
You find a something bug/feel something wrong, please report it.

Bug Reports for Wings3D 2.x
http://wings3d.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=18

If you are interested in programming, here also it will be helpful.
Programming
http://wings3d.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=7

Since OSX is equipped with environment of Unixshell.
You,re welcome to Erlang,Git and Github.

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tkbd

[dgud]

Yes, the new versions are a bit more "laggy" in the feel, I have tried hard to optimize the wxWidgets based branch, i.e. 2.0.x. and I think it is ok in the release, but I use mac the least so maybe it's worse there.

I will continue to work on it, but I have not figured out why there is a difference between them,
so I don't know if I ever will get it as smooth as in the old versions.

libSDL is a game api, which was optimized for mouse input and OpenGL drawing and wxWidgets is a user application api. More features but less speed.

Of course any help would be appreciated, I do not think anyone has read that part of the code so more eyes could help.