Hello Sijmen, It is very essential to have a port of DirectX, I am not a graphics person and I cannot help much with any technical clarifications on your thoughts. But Games are definately required on Linux.
Amish. On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:05:35 +0100, Sijmen Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've recently been running around the game programming on .NET scene, > which does interrest me to a great extend. As you might have noticed > from the title, this post is about DirectX 9. As some of you might > know, I have had plans to re-implement DirectX 9, or parts of it, on > Linux/Mono - which proved impossible for me at that time. So then I > started working on ManagedGL. > > ManagedGL has learned me quite a few things about wrapping and such. > After seeing the rise of Tao, and learning more and more about Windows > Forms (which has tight connections to DirectX 9), I thought I could > give a new try - only the graphics and input parts. > > Here are my plans: > - Take Tao.OpenGL as back-end binding; > - Use native Win32 code to setup an OpenGL context on SWF controls; > - Add support for an SDL provided OpenGL context beneath Direct3D, so > Direct3D can be used on Linux to without too much overhead; > - Not a slow and planning aproach. I'll take one saturday or another > free day to start up and write as much of the basic implementation as > possibel; > - Use many libraries if possible to take work out of my hands. > > Yeah, I know it's abitious, and I might not even come to the point to > start, but I just wanted to get some comments on the idea. > > -- > > 'May the Lord bless you and protect you. May the Lord smile on you > and be gracious to you. May the Lord show you his favor and give you > his peace.' > 'De Heer zegent je, en Hij bewaart je. De Heer kijkt met liefde naar > je, en Hij is je genadig. De Heer bedenkt het goede voor je, en geeft > je vrede.' > > Sijmen Mulder > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
