As a BGE user, I welcome any upgrade in the graphic pipeline. This sounds like a good idea to modernize BGE's OpenGL capabilities.
Will this change require significant work to update the existing add ons that uses the BGL module? Although only Screencast-keys comes to mind. -m On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Mitchell Stokes <[email protected]> wrote: > BGL is a Python wrapper for OpenGL that is maintained by Blender. > Unfortunately, it is stuck on approximately OpenGL 1.1 level features with > some shader calls also exposed. It could be updated to support newer OpenGL > features (at least having vertex arrays would be nice), but there really is > not much need to maintain our own OpenGL wrapper. PyOpenGL[0] supports > Python 3.3+, and could be used as a replacement for BGL (in other words, > deprecate BGL and ship Blender with PyOpenGL). > > Pros: > * Someone else would be maintaining the wrapper > * PyOpenGL uses ctypes and the same package can be used for multiple > platforms > > Cons: > * Yet another Python package for us to ship with Blender > * Adds to Blender's size > * Some APIs may need to be updated (bge.texture and Image.gl_load come to > mind) > > What are some other people's thoughts on this? > > --Mitchell Stokes > > [0] http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
