Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative
On 15/05/2014 5:01 p.m., Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I tried to gather support for a community game project (FeedBack). Lots of interest, but nobody actually joined the party when I kicked it off. On 15 May 2014 05:04, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I am starting an initiative for everyone interested in D game development by creating the github organization d-gamedev-team[1]. The first project hosted here is the the freshly created opengl-tutorials[2] project. This is a long-term project that aims to collect as many modern OpenGL examples ported to D or even provide new examples created from scratch in D. All the examples should be easy to build, provided you have a fresh D compiler and a recent version of the dub[3] dependency manager / builder tool. Currently the project contains an almost-complete port of the samples contained on the website opengl-tutorial.org[4] - which cover OpenGL v3.3x and were created by Sam Hocevar. The D examples are not straight ports, they have been D-ified and may contain more features than their original counterparts. They also use 3rd-party D OpenGL wrappers to avoid a lot of scaffolding work typical of OpenGL applications. Thanks to dub[3] you won't have to manually install the D dependencies. However you may have to install some C/C++ 3rd-party library dependencies, such as GLFW, SDL2, SDL2 Image, and potentially other libraries depending on the ones the samples require. The dependencies are documented in the project's readme[5]. Additional OpenGL example ports are planned and some are already in progress but have not yet been pushed upstream. See the opengl-tutorials[2] github repo for a list of ports which are in progress and a list of desired ports. If you wish to contribute with your own ports or with brand new D OpenGL examples don't hesitate to make a pull request. I want the d-gamedev-team organization to gradually grow and have it host as many useful projects, whether it be libraries, tools, tutorials, tips & tricks, assets, or anything else related to D game development. I am strongly interested in game development in D, and although I'm at a starting stage I'm very much committed to working on this project to the best of my abilities. Hopefully in a few years we'll see some major titles made entirely in D. But before that can happen we have to make a collective push to bring D to a higher stage where it's acceptable and viable to game developers, whether it be through language support (@nogc/allocators) or library and tooling support. We'll see where this goes, but I'm very excited for the future! Cheers. :o) [1] : https://github.com/d-gamedev-team [2] : https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/opengl-tutorials [3] : http://code.dlang.org/download [4] : http://opengl-tutorial.org/ [5] : https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/opengl-tutorials/tree/master/ports/opengl-tutorial.org Yeah I was one of those people who wanted to work on it. Unfortunately that was while I was working on DOOGLE and pre aurora commencing. That to me really killed my enthusiasm. Personally I'm waiting for aurora before starting up on the GUI front.
Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative
I tried to gather support for a community game project (FeedBack). Lots of interest, but nobody actually joined the party when I kicked it off. On 15 May 2014 05:04, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > I am starting an initiative for everyone interested in D game > development by creating the github organization d-gamedev-team[1]. > > The first project hosted here is the the freshly created > opengl-tutorials[2] project. This is a long-term project that aims to > collect as many modern OpenGL examples ported to D or even provide new > examples created from scratch in D. All the examples should be easy to > build, provided you have a fresh D compiler and a recent version of > the dub[3] dependency manager / builder tool. > > Currently the project contains an almost-complete port of the samples > contained on the website opengl-tutorial.org[4] - which cover OpenGL > v3.3x and were created by Sam Hocevar. The D examples are not straight > ports, they have been D-ified and may contain more features than their > original counterparts. They also use 3rd-party D OpenGL wrappers to > avoid a lot of scaffolding work typical of OpenGL applications. > > Thanks to dub[3] you won't have to manually install the D > dependencies. However you may have to install some C/C++ 3rd-party > library dependencies, such as GLFW, SDL2, SDL2 Image, and potentially > other libraries depending on the ones the samples require. The > dependencies are documented in the project's readme[5]. > > Additional OpenGL example ports are planned and some are already in > progress but have not yet been pushed upstream. See the > opengl-tutorials[2] github repo for a list of ports which are in > progress and a list of desired ports. > > If you wish to contribute with your own ports or with brand new D > OpenGL examples don't hesitate to make a pull request. I want the > d-gamedev-team organization to gradually grow and have it host as many > useful projects, whether it be libraries, tools, tutorials, tips & > tricks, assets, or anything else related to D game development. > > I am strongly interested in game development in D, and although I'm at > a starting stage I'm very much committed to working on this project to > the best of my abilities. Hopefully in a few years we'll see some > major titles made entirely in D. But before that can happen we have to > make a collective push to bring D to a higher stage where it's > acceptable and viable to game developers, whether it be through > language support (@nogc/allocators) or library and tooling support. > > We'll see where this goes, but I'm very excited for the future! Cheers. :o) > > [1] : https://github.com/d-gamedev-team > [2] : https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/opengl-tutorials > [3] : http://code.dlang.org/download > [4] : http://opengl-tutorial.org/ > [5] : > https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/opengl-tutorials/tree/master/ports/opengl-tutorial.org
Re: Adam Simpkins replaces Manu Evans as speaker for DConf 2014
On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 19:33:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Sadly Manu couldn't make the trip to DConf this year. But fear not - Adam Simpkins will replace him as a speaker. Adam is a senior engineer at Facebook and will discuss opportunities and challenges using D at Facebook. http://dconf.org/2014/talks/simpkins.html Andrei O, Manu :( Well I have some idea of what Adam is going to say. He is a good speaker, so that should be fun and interesting. I'm quite disappointed that i won't meet Manu. Opportunities to meet other D devs are rare.
Re: Adam Simpkins replaces Manu Evans as speaker for DConf 2014
On 5/14/2014 3:33 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Sadly Manu couldn't make the trip to DConf this year. I'm both disappointed... Adam Simpkins will replace him as a speaker. Adam is a senior engineer at Facebook and will discuss opportunities and challenges using D at Facebook. http://dconf.org/2014/talks/simpkins.html ...and excited!
Re: Adam Simpkins replaces Manu Evans as speaker for DConf 2014
On 5/14/2014 12:33 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Sadly Manu couldn't make the trip to DConf this year. But fear not - Adam Simpkins will replace him as a speaker. Adam is a senior engineer at Facebook and will discuss opportunities and challenges using D at Facebook. http://dconf.org/2014/talks/simpkins.html I wish we could have both Adam and Manu!
Adam Simpkins replaces Manu Evans as speaker for DConf 2014
Sadly Manu couldn't make the trip to DConf this year. But fear not - Adam Simpkins will replace him as a speaker. Adam is a senior engineer at Facebook and will discuss opportunities and challenges using D at Facebook. http://dconf.org/2014/talks/simpkins.html Andrei
OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative
I am starting an initiative for everyone interested in D game development by creating the github organization d-gamedev-team[1]. The first project hosted here is the the freshly created opengl-tutorials[2] project. This is a long-term project that aims to collect as many modern OpenGL examples ported to D or even provide new examples created from scratch in D. All the examples should be easy to build, provided you have a fresh D compiler and a recent version of the dub[3] dependency manager / builder tool. Currently the project contains an almost-complete port of the samples contained on the website opengl-tutorial.org[4] - which cover OpenGL v3.3x and were created by Sam Hocevar. The D examples are not straight ports, they have been D-ified and may contain more features than their original counterparts. They also use 3rd-party D OpenGL wrappers to avoid a lot of scaffolding work typical of OpenGL applications. Thanks to dub[3] you won't have to manually install the D dependencies. However you may have to install some C/C++ 3rd-party library dependencies, such as GLFW, SDL2, SDL2 Image, and potentially other libraries depending on the ones the samples require. The dependencies are documented in the project's readme[5]. Additional OpenGL example ports are planned and some are already in progress but have not yet been pushed upstream. See the opengl-tutorials[2] github repo for a list of ports which are in progress and a list of desired ports. If you wish to contribute with your own ports or with brand new D OpenGL examples don't hesitate to make a pull request. I want the d-gamedev-team organization to gradually grow and have it host as many useful projects, whether it be libraries, tools, tutorials, tips & tricks, assets, or anything else related to D game development. I am strongly interested in game development in D, and although I'm at a starting stage I'm very much committed to working on this project to the best of my abilities. Hopefully in a few years we'll see some major titles made entirely in D. But before that can happen we have to make a collective push to bring D to a higher stage where it's acceptable and viable to game developers, whether it be through language support (@nogc/allocators) or library and tooling support. We'll see where this goes, but I'm very excited for the future! Cheers. :o) [1] : https://github.com/d-gamedev-team [2] : https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/opengl-tutorials [3] : http://code.dlang.org/download [4] : http://opengl-tutorial.org/ [5] : https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/opengl-tutorials/tree/master/ports/opengl-tutorial.org
