RE: [paragui-users] OpenGL

[Dinand Vanvelzen]

I'm not an Linux expert,.. still learning it but my game eats up all my
time. I think when you put linux thus cross-platform development into
the picture the OpenGL standard comes with certainties, mainly that all
OpenGL
Implementations are guaranteed to produce exactly the same image
regardless of platform or hardware. That is certainly not true in all
cases for all blitting implementations. There are lots of nice bonuses
like this when using OpenGL. 
OpenGL was widely used in Loki games who made some excellent Linux
games.
And the probably the best choice as a cross-platform rendering API.

Greetings.
DV

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Roger D. Vargas
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 14:10
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Subject: RE: [paragui-users] a few changes to PG_FileSelector

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Dinand Vanvelzen wrote:

> Offcourse if there's even the smallest hardware acceleration then
OpenGL
> takes the lead over SDL software blitting by far. And since 3D and 2D
> acceleration is standard on even the most low-budget cards these
days...
Thanks, it has been a nice explanation. Yes, i have noticed that even
bad
cards like onboard Sis support accelerated blits (using testvidinfo app
from SDL). So, on these cards GL would be faster than SDL blitting,
specially on linux, where is imposible to get accel unless you use DGA
or
GL, isnt it?


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