Elysian Shadows 3D?
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 5:36 pm
Falco, my brother and i were discussing the finer points of DirectX and he made the point that if you are developing libGyro for Dreamcast, PSP and PC, why not use Direct3D or DIrect2D for the PC rendering? I can't speak for you or the ES dev team but i think its a good point he made.
He states "As far as i know, i could be seriously wrong, please correct me if i am, most video hardware is targeted towards Microsoft's API which makes more sense in my head as the most desirable approach. They (the ES dev team) are using OpenGL with SDL for PC, PSP, Mac and proposedly Linux with the KallistiOS handling the Dreamcast side of things (which he knows f**k all about!). This may make things easier when making a cross-platform library but it shouldn't take long to add DirectX specific rendering functions and in turn see a better end result for the PC user."
I guess what he is trying to say is, is DirectX something you considered or did you totally overlook it because of previous opinions? Personally i don't think you could go wrong with the current approach but thats the arguement we are having. I think he needs the opinion of someone who actually made the decision.
Thanks
He states "As far as i know, i could be seriously wrong, please correct me if i am, most video hardware is targeted towards Microsoft's API which makes more sense in my head as the most desirable approach. They (the ES dev team) are using OpenGL with SDL for PC, PSP, Mac and proposedly Linux with the KallistiOS handling the Dreamcast side of things (which he knows f**k all about!). This may make things easier when making a cross-platform library but it shouldn't take long to add DirectX specific rendering functions and in turn see a better end result for the PC user."
I guess what he is trying to say is, is DirectX something you considered or did you totally overlook it because of previous opinions? Personally i don't think you could go wrong with the current approach but thats the arguement we are having. I think he needs the opinion of someone who actually made the decision.
Thanks