You are comparing DirectX to SDL, and the rest? Are you kidding me? Maybe OpenGL.....
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Luke Benstead <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/6/17 Haroon Khalid <[email protected]>: > > did someone say making a direct X type of lib is a bad idea? What else is > > there you can do? The opengame art site has hardly any solid art. > > Yes I think that a DX type lib is a bad idea because we have the > equivalent libraries already. I fail to see what benefit developing an > all encompassing API will actually bring. Look at it this way, if I'm > developing a networked desktop application with a database backend I'd > research the most suitable GUI API, the most suitable networking API > and most suitable database connection API for my language and > circumstances. It doesn't matter that all three will use a different > syntax because chances are they will take up a minimal part of the > entire code of the application. Also that kind of modularity lets me > choose one network API over another for my particular situation. > > Games are exactly the same, DirectX or OpenGL/SDL/OpenAL only make up > a small portion of any reasonably complex game. The majority goes on > game code: AI, file IO, logic, scene managers, UI elements etc. etc. > and the most reasonably designed games will have abstracted the lot > away coz (for example) you won't find DX on a Wii. There is very > little benefit writing some kind of wrapper for the different > component APIs (OpenGL et al.) we have because it's not really an > issue. > > And then there is the age old saying.. "Write games, not engines" > although you can obviously write a game using the APIs directly, the > work has already been done a zillion times in various open source > engines (Q3, Ogre, Irrlicht, Horde3D, Crystal Space etc. etc. etc.) so > just use one of those instead of reinventing the wheel. > > That said, if you aren't using an engine, there are *some* gaps we > could fill with C libraries to fit in with the GL/AL/SDL/DevIL stack > to better match DX in features, including: > > 1. A 3D font output library > 2. A 3D math library ( I tried this one: http://www.kazade.co.uk/kazmath/) > 3. An FX framework library > 4. A 3D model library (like DevIL for models) > > DX has those above 4 things included. But I reiterate I don't believe > code libraries are the problem really, I think it's a lack of > collaboration of resources and a lack of a central place on the > Internet for the open games community for managing > code/models/texture/sounds/teams and games. > > Luke. >
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