I think a portable opengl, and audio library are important, but emulating direct-x itself is less important with regards to .net/mono, as this will be mostly *new* development, more than legacy porting.
Amish Munshi wrote:
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.
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