Quoting Katchourine Yoann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > do you want to follow our use of SDL or maybe we can switch > to OpenGL. > OpenGL is really nice for using also in 2D. > It's faster.
May or may not, it depends on the GFX card and the driver. Nowadays, it's almost a given, though. > Personnaly i'm up for OpenGL (moreover SDL fullscreen is bug a lot under mac > os X (and we have also reports under linux :p)) I don't see how the SDL will ever get fixed. There's a 1.3 branch that is supposed to use more the GFX card, but no idea how much the API has changed. SDL would stay for control (keyboard, mouse, joystick), audio and other stuff, even graphical maybe (SDL window can be an OGL one). One of the big problems I see is that some of the physics need to read back the map data. I don't know how much it implies for data transfer, but reading from the video card isn't always fast. This is needed for instance to control where the ground is. Then the problem of the texture sizes appear. Some cards may have max 2048x2048: I don't know if we have bigger maps, but handling those would be troublesome. Anyway, those are only random thoughts on the topic. As gentildemon embodied it, the real problem is that of manpower: do we know OpenGL to code the needed changes? to understand future bugs related to it? If someone contributes the new engine (and quite a contribution it would be), will we be able to maintain it? _______________________________________________ Wormux-dev mailing list Wormux-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wormux-dev
