jakoblin Report post Posted February 19, 2005 player who like to use directx and player who like to use opengl . no more help me threads asking about opengl and directx my 2 cent opinion. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placid Report post Posted February 19, 2005 Do you have any idea what that would involve? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakoblin Report post Posted February 19, 2005 opengl use hardware . directx use software any one who is a professional directx coder can code it in a few months right ?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeone3000 Report post Posted February 19, 2005 Software acceleration for a 3D isometric game with shadowmapping, hi-def particles, and soon to be cal3d animation. I don't think it would work too well... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placid Report post Posted February 19, 2005 The client is coded using an OpenGL library (SDL). It would be an absolute nightmare to recode the client to implement DirectX I believe. Furthermore, it would be pointless, this is a multi-platform based game (GNU/Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Mac), therefore, something hardcoded for DirectX, is unlikely to work well on anything but Windows (without the use of Wine/Cedega, but thats pointless anyway). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeone3000 Report post Posted February 19, 2005 Uh, not Mac. I wish macX even. I want to play in Pcom... What do Linux and FreeBSD use for software acceleration? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Entropy Report post Posted February 19, 2005 Uh, not Mac. I wish macX even. I want to play in Pcom... What do Linux and FreeBSD use for software acceleration? OpenGL, of course. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Entropy Report post Posted February 19, 2005 player who like to use directx and player who like to use opengl . no more help me threads asking about opengl and directx my 2 cent opinion. Why the smeg would we use OpenGL 1.0 and DX 1.0???????? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cpp Report post Posted February 19, 2005 DirectX 1.0 is a total shit from what i know. Actually anything before DirectX 6.0 is worse than OpneGL. I believe that DX 8 or even 9 would speed up things pretty much. But yea, it would be a nightmare to reprogramm everything to use DirectX. Also it only works on Windows good. But using DX AND OpenGL? There is totally no reason to use both of them from what i know (at the same time). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Leeloo Report post Posted February 19, 2005 No good reason except it means rewriting everything. And how would using DirectX speed up things pretty much? It's the same graphics card that gets to do the work in the end, it's just a different way of talking to the driver. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Entropy Report post Posted February 19, 2005 No good reason except it means rewriting everything. And how would using DirectX speed up things pretty much? It's the same graphics card that gets to do the work in the end, it's just a different way of talking to the driver. DirectX 1.0 does not use any 3D acceleration, and it's very, very buggy. Afterall, it was the first DX version, and it's almost 10 years old. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kl4Uz Report post Posted February 20, 2005 maybe this guy is talking about Direct3D, the current version of DirectX is 9.0c. Well imo OpenGL is far better - at least my framerates are way better in OpenGL mode (in games that support both methods) Since the philosophy of EL is to be a multiplatform game the idea of implenting a D3D mode is senseless. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Entropy Report post Posted February 20, 2005 If he wants to implment it, I think he should go ahead. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakoblin Report post Posted February 21, 2005 and get pay for it right ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Leeloo Report post Posted February 21, 2005 Well, you could send a donation to yourself once you have it done Noone else gets paid except for a few donations, so why (and how?) should you? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mellbu Frama Report post Posted February 21, 2005 why not use direct X 7.0 its prety good and the highest my cpu is like 8 or something (maybe 9 but I doubt it) but the game runs prety smoothly allredy, i realy dont see the point. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
