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megido-rev.M:
Were I to start out some graphics programming I'm likely going for OpenGL unless DX has something that interests me.
Pagonis:
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on June 30, 2012, 03:29:16 AM ---Were I to start out some graphics programming I'm likely going for OpenGL unless DX has something that interests me.
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DX has more tutorials, more learning material and all your questions have been asked by someone else on some dev forums and got answered.
Yep, the way I see it, DX has a lot that should interest you. :)
megido-rev.M:
--- Quote from: Pagonis on June 30, 2012, 03:33:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on June 30, 2012, 03:29:16 AM ---Were I to start out some graphics programming I'm likely going for OpenGL unless DX has something that interests me.
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DX has more tutorials, more learning material and all your questions have been asked by someone else on some dev forums and got answered.
Yep, the way I see it, DX has a lot that should interest you. :)
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Oh, really? Does OpenGL have that little community or is it simply that DX has the bulk of the developers?
Pagonis:
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on June 30, 2012, 04:00:16 AM ---
--- Quote from: Pagonis on June 30, 2012, 03:33:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on June 30, 2012, 03:29:16 AM ---Were I to start out some graphics programming I'm likely going for OpenGL unless DX has something that interests me.
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DX has more tutorials, more learning material and all your questions have been asked by someone else on some dev forums and got answered.
Yep, the way I see it, DX has a lot that should interest you. :)
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Oh, really? Does OpenGL have that little community or is it simply that DX has the bulk of the developers?
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Yarly.
Altho I would suggest XNA instead of Direct-X for starting writing games. Grab a book like this and you're golden (pdf ebooks suck imo, I might just be old school tho).
Also heard good things about writing games in Python.
rkruger:
--- Quote from: Pagonis on June 30, 2012, 03:01:11 AM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on June 24, 2012, 03:28:04 PM ---After all OpenGL is in many ways better than DX API.
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Name those many ways, please.
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Well, I can name one important one: Portability.
--- Quote from: Pagonis on June 30, 2012, 03:01:11 AM ---Also you do realize that Direct-X not only handles rendering like OpenGL, but also sound, input and such?
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For that, there is SDL.
--- Quote from: Pagonis on June 30, 2012, 03:01:11 AM ---Speaking of Linux - no one bloody cares, despite 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and now 2012 being "the year of linux on desktop" and Android on a wave, Linux is still a non factor.
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I care. That said, I don't care what you run, as long as I can run what I want on my computer.
--- Quote from: Pagonis on June 30, 2012, 03:01:11 AM ---As a developer, I hate Linux. Such a mess. No consistency. Everything gets deprecated after 2 years.
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What about POSIX?
--- Quote from: Pagonis on June 30, 2012, 03:01:11 AM ---Sound API - non existant. There was OSS, then there was ALSA, then OSS again, now I see some hack called PulseAudio. Low latency audio? JACK sucks.
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You should use a library like SDL to cover the implementation details. That way you don't need to care about low-level details like what kind of sound API or daemon is present on the system.
--- Quote from: Pagonis on June 30, 2012, 03:01:11 AM ---FreeBSD is great. It isn't plagued by stupid GPL ideologists (if it's not GPL, it's not in the tree! altho yes it would benefit us very much <- LOL), they don't hestitate signing NDAs and implementing closed source drivers in the kernel.
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Closed source drivers part of FreeBSD, really? That's news to me, do you have a reference?
That's certainly a different path from their cousins at OpenBSD.
Check out: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39, and listen to the song while you're at it, it's quite catchy.
--- Quote from: Pagonis on June 30, 2012, 04:11:34 AM ---Altho I would suggest XNA instead of Direct-X for starting writing games.
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I read something a while back about XNA being phased out in Windows 8. Not sure if it's still true though.
--- Quote from: Pagonis on June 30, 2012, 03:01:11 AM ---Peace out, hipster linux boys. :)
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Peace.
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