Hmmm, I have to disagree with OGL being better than DX. I would have said that about eight months ago, before I got the beta of 7. DX6 was okay, but still suffered from painful initialzation.
Now with the D3DX library, prototyping out a game takes about five minutes, give or take a dev cycle or two.
OGL is still superior in the area of portability, but with the Xbox comming, who is gonna want to write games for Linux anyways?
Granted, they are messing with the structure again, mixing the 2d and 3d elements for a more streamlined system, plus adding more features (voice and network code), so as a well rounded API I would have to say DX is the clear winner.
Why bother using either DSound or DPlay if you are gonna support the fact that OGL is cross platform? So you learn a little of the API to get by in windows?
That translates into --- use OGL if you don''t want to make a happy game with network and sound support from the same API, cause a bastardized version of OGL with Dsound and Dplay support is just that.
So use OGL if you are only making something in 3D for multiple platforms. Until they release the OAL and OML stuff in the works
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