"Here there are fixes for several flt loader problems.
First one was an small bug when root database was an empty string we got a database path "/" instead of "./".
Second one is more complex. Flt loader works in two passes, first one reads flt database and second one builds osg scenegraph. Special care must be taken for properly tracking database path as nested files are entered. Because textures are loaded in second pass, mentioned care should be taken once again. I wrote time ago a piece of code and I placed it in both files fltFile.cpp and flt2osg.cpp. After a long period offline I have seen the portion of code at flt2osg was missing, I just made some tests and I could see it is still required.
Finally, I have seen that pool.cpp always try to make IMAGE cache instead of reading what Options says.
Aditonally, I recently wrote an osg change, now it has external references "a la flt" what is called osg::ProxyNode. As part of the change now flt loader builds external references as ProxyNodes. I made the same mistake like pool.cpp and always made ARCHIVE cache instead of see what Options says, it has also been fixed."
"Changes to provide rudimentary support for OF 15.8 light point
animation palettes. This change also includes light point palette override
support for external references. This is the last of my code changes to
support OF 15.8 in the flt loader. Barring bugs, of course, knock on wood.
The gist of the animation palette code is to create ref_ptr'd
osgSim::BlinkSequence objects for each palette entry, and then pass them on
to osgSim::LightPoint for any OpenFlight light points that reference that
palette entry. This should be conservative of memory (not that I expect the
animation palette to be extremely large)."
point appearance palette to the OpenFlight loader. Both are 15.8 features.
I also added parsing/comments regarding other things that have changed for
v15.8."
