More details on Mike's blog for this notable milestone and exciting planned use for Zink, which also leads to the work for making sure Zink can work well on Windows in addition to Linux.
Xplane 11 aircraft drivers#
That avoids buggy OpenGL drivers / interoperability extensions lacking. With X-Plane 12 as the next major release of this realistic flight simulator the hope is to ship it with Zink as the OpenGL back-end for use by plug-ins and going through that when in need of GL rendering support.
X-Plane features native Vulkan support but still relies on OpenGL for maintaining compatibility with the flight simulator plug-ins. Currently X-Plane 11 is relying on driver OpenGL/Vulkan interoperability extensions to achieve the GL/VLK rendering, but for some platforms the interop extensions are non-existent or buggy. While X-Plane recently added native Vulkan support, X-Plane does rely on OpenGL still for various X-Plane plug-ins in rendering of certain elements like custom avionic screens. It turns out the X-Plane developers are interested in using Zink as their OpenGL back-end with X-Plane 12. This is also the first hardware-accelerated OpenGL 4.6-capable Mesa driver running natively on Windows. With this latest code, Zink is running on Windows at "full speed" with proper windowing system integration. Sidney today opened a Mesa pull request adding Windows WGL support for Kopper. With the recently merged Kopper code for offering native WSI (windowing system integration) handling and other improvements, Sidney has been working to get Zink running properly on Windows. X-Plane's Sidney Just has been working with Mike Blumenkrantz and upstream Mesa developers on enabling Zink on Windows. All the aircraft have been lovingly overhauled to have stunning exteriors and completely functional 3D cockpits. The default fleet has been upgraded for X-Plane 11 to ensure consistent quality and usability. Zink with the recently-merged Kopper code is even beginning to work on Windows and Laminar Research is hoping to use Zink for the next major X-Plane release! X-Plane 11 also includes 9 aircraft in the default installation, spanning the aviation industry and its history. There is some exciting progress around Zink as the OpenGL 4.6 implementation built atop Vulkan APIs for generally quite performant OpenGL-on-Vulkan acceleration.
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