Question regarding job description

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Started by yanu July 05, 2012 08:22 PM

3 comments, last by yanu 11 years, 9 months ago

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July 05, 2012 08:22 PM

Hi, i hope it's the right forum for it and someone could help.

While browsing through some job offers on different company websites I've seen a strange one for a graphic engine programmer.

I hope somebody could explain what they expect you to do there.

Basically it's this line what i'm wondering about:

[color=#85D5F1][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[background=rgb(9, 27, 37)]A minimum of 3 years’ experience writing efficient core engine code (directly to hardware, or hardware APIs, not through 3rd party APIs)[/background][/font]
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The full job description is here: http://eu.blizzard.c...html?id=100009G

What i thought is, that you cannot access graphics hardware directly, only via an API like OpenGL or Direct3D, so could someone please explain what they intent to do?

Greetings

frob

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July 05, 2012 08:40 PM

That is what they mean, using Direct3D. The 3rd party APIs are generally cross-platform libraries developed by studios, or engines such as Unity.

frob

46,221

July 05, 2012 08:42 PM

Also they are talking about professional experience. This means you have shipped 2-3 major game titles where you were directly implementing the graphics engine, not relying on an existing engine.