Hello,
there is a course in my university called 'Computer Graphics' and we are going to use Elica - http://www.elica.net/site/index.html
I have experience with C++ and OpenGL , but I am wondering shoud I participate in this course and will it be of any use to me ? Will it help me understand the concepts of 3D programming or it is just a waste of time ?
Thanks.
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Elica and 3D graphics - is it worth it ?
Started by Getov, Sep 08 2012 10:25 AM
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Posted 09 September 2012 - 09:10 AM
Hi, Getov 
Judging from your name and the course you are asking about, I can tell you are most likely studying at FMI, Sofia University. If that's the case, I can assure you it's a complete waste of time if you are trying to learn something about computer graphics. I enrolled the course several years ago, because there was no one who could tell me that the name was quite inappropriate, given the things that one can learn from it - defining simple shapes and objects with certain properties(like texture and size) and applying simple operations to them. Keep in mind all of these things are not done in a general way that can help you in other situations. It's strongly Elica specific and Elica is a very high-level language/framework, so it certainly will not help you grasp the concepts of 3D programming. Ah, one more thing - Elica is slow, so it's very, very poor choice when it comes to game development.
With that made clear, it still was an interesting experience, especially if you take into account the lack of gamedev-related courses at the Faculty
Judging from your name and the course you are asking about, I can tell you are most likely studying at FMI, Sofia University. If that's the case, I can assure you it's a complete waste of time if you are trying to learn something about computer graphics. I enrolled the course several years ago, because there was no one who could tell me that the name was quite inappropriate, given the things that one can learn from it - defining simple shapes and objects with certain properties(like texture and size) and applying simple operations to them. Keep in mind all of these things are not done in a general way that can help you in other situations. It's strongly Elica specific and Elica is a very high-level language/framework, so it certainly will not help you grasp the concepts of 3D programming. Ah, one more thing - Elica is slow, so it's very, very poor choice when it comes to game development.
With that made clear, it still was an interesting experience, especially if you take into account the lack of gamedev-related courses at the Faculty
