An Opening Thread: Which Lib do you use?

Wuntvor · 2004-07-13T07:11:08

Quote:Original post by IshraamI use ClanLib and OpenGL to write a shoot'em up game engine (and editors, and a game using it,etc).If you have never taken a look at ClanLib, it's worth the effort I think ^_^. Here for the CL : www.clanlib.org and there for Prelude : http://prelude.servegame.com.Yup, I agree that Clanlib needs more love, I have found it a very convenient way to do all those little things you always need in quite a well-designed way.My current project uses:ClanLib (Graphics etc.)Lua + Luabind (Scripting)ODE (Physics)PhysFs (File Stuff)Boost (Smart Pointers etc.)The coolest thing so far has been that ClanLib was VERY easy to extend so that I can load files through PhysFs, just had to derive two classes and implement a few virtual methods. Sexy. :)

Engines and Middleware Programming

Started by VThornheart July 06, 2004 02:58 PM

45 comments, last by GameDev.net 19 years, 10 months ago

smart_idiot

1,298

July 07, 2004 05:28 AM

Allegro was the first graphics API I used way back when it was pretty much DOS only. I've developed strange, and probably unhealthy, psychological attachment to it. I'm a huge supporter, even if SDL is better. But you didn't hear that from me.

Silly SDL. You can't even draw a line without needing additional libraries.

Chess is played by three people. Two people play the game; the third provides moral support for the pawns. The object of the game is to kill your opponent by flinging captured pieces at his head. Since the only piece that can be killed is a pawn, the two armies agree to meet in a pawn-infested area (or even a pawn shop) and kill as many pawns as possible in the crossfire. If the game goes on for an hour, one player may legally attempt to gouge out the other player's eyes with his King.

Lode

1,003

July 07, 2004 06:46 AM

SDL :)

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Mayrel

348

July 07, 2004 07:15 AM

SpiderMonkey.

GLUT.

Guile.

gmp.

CoV

Anonymous

July 07, 2004 07:19 AM

DevLib :

http://www.devlib-central.org/

Erluk

170

July 07, 2004 07:27 AM

I use:
boostto augment the STL
libphysfsfor cross-platform file access
GLFW as a replacement for SDL

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marijnh

182

July 07, 2004 07:53 AM

OpenGL on top of GLFW for graphics and I/O (I really recommend GLFW (glfw.sourceforge.net). It is somewhat less mature than SDL but does almost everything SDL does in a very clean way. It's documentation is also awesome.)

I use some parts of boost, mostly simple convenience things like filesystem, lexical_cast and noncopyable - the weird template interface of the more complex boost components scares me.

TrueType 2 for converting true type fonts to my internal font texture format.

Ravuya

136

July 07, 2004 09:09 AM

I'm using SDL to write a tactical RPG.

jhoward

122

July 07, 2004 12:23 PM

Using allegro and allegroGL. All rendering is done in opengl, sound and graphics loading done with allegro. I'm making an RTS game right now.

---Current project: Warring States, an RTS gamehttp://warring-states.blogspot.com/

_the_phantom_

11,263

July 07, 2004 01:43 PM

Quote:Original post by pjcast
PTypes (for threading)

I started using PTypes a while back for its networking and threading but I've switched to boost for threading instead and i've not done any network coding for some time now

pjcast

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July 07, 2004 07:56 PM

Quote:Original post by _the_phantom_
Quote:Original post by pjcast
PTypes (for threading)

I started using PTypes a while back for its networking and threading but I've switched to boost for threading instead and i've not done any network coding for some time now

I may convert to boost one of these days. ;)

Do you think boost has better crossplatform threading? Cause that I really use PTypes for.

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