DirectX vs OpenGL
Yeah! And Glide looks much smoother then DX or OGL.. damn thing that it doesn''t support so many features and a high polygon count.
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"If it doesn''t fit, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacement anyway."
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"If it doesn''t fit, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacement anyway."
Both apis are state machines. As to why ms uses com is because they reinvent new interfaces each year so older apps could still work with new dx sdk. Also so you could use visual basic to write dx apps. I find both easy to use and understand. There is not much com in dx8 which looks c/c++ish nowdays for the end user, ofcourse internals are still com based. Ati likes opengl as they admit it in one of their pdf docs on vertex/pixel shaders I think. Nvidia also leans towards opengl. Nothing really important just my observations
it doesn''t matter anyway. how can you become a l33t coder if you can''t decide which API to use on your own. coding is difficult, PERIOD. regardless of what API, language, dev. kit, etc. you use. that''s why everyone isn''t making games that sell 1,000,000 the first time they touch a computer.
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quote:Original post by JD
Ati likes opengl as they admit it in one of their pdf docs on vertex/pixel shaders I think. Nvidia also leans towards opengl. Nothing really important just my observations
They both made press releases stating that the only way to get full access to their programmable shaders was through OpenGL''s extensions. They didn''t want people to only see "DirectX 8''s features" and not see their own hard work that didn''t get expossed in the API. However, it may not mean that they "lean" towards OpenGL.
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