RE: GP: 3D DOS PROGRAMING

["chris gripeos" <cgripeos@Hotmail.com>]

Hey!!

OpenGL is an awesome API and I prefer it over Direct3D for three reasons.

First, ITs a lot easier to get started with OpenGL than with Direct3D.
You can have a 3D application up and running in about a half a day. Direct3D 
requires a LOT of initialization before you get a single triangle on the 
screen.

Second, its available on almost all platforms. Heck, even Nintendo64's API 
is based on OpenGL.

And third, its perfect if you want to do things like inverse kinematics.

But I have to be fair and say that Direct3D is a very powerfull API and if 
you dont mind all the initializing you have to do to get it to work you 
should definetly give it a try.


Later,
Chris Gripeos

Info Designer
Ubi Soft Entertainment
cgripeos@ny.ubisoft.com


>From: Keith Luu <KeithLuu@cit.com.au>
>Reply-To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
>To: "'gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com'" 
><gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
>Subject: RE: GP: 3D DOS PROGRAMING
>Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 08:54:38 +1000
>
>Hi all,
>	I really appreciate everyone's input here and it's really cool.
>On the subject of 3D game programming. Does anyone know anything about
>OpenGL? heard that's it's so much cooler than Direct3D (Don't quote me one
>this).
>
>Cheers,
>Keith
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Patrick Clerkin [mailto:p_clerkin@Hotmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:47 AM
>To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
>Subject: Re: GP: 3D DOS PROGRAMING
>
>
>If you want find out about how something like Wolfenstein 3D was basically
>done have a look at:
>
>http://www.ben2.ucla.edu/~permadi/raycast/raycidx.html
>
>which is a ray casting tutorial.  But things have changed a lot over the
>years: polygons rather than stretched slices of bitmaps are used nowadays.
>
>I really don't think you should confine yourself to DOS just because you're
>a beginner.  DOS is dead, as they say.  Just go straight for DirectX.  It's
>really not difficult to get up and running with DX - though of course it 
>can
>
>become as deep and complicated as is necessary.
>
>Best of luck,
>Patrick.
>
> >From: "Acidnaught" <luisfertv@geocities.com>
> >Reply-To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
> >To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
> >Subject: GP: 3D DOS PROGRAMING
> >Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:29:37 -0500
> >
> >Hello everybody
> >
> >I know that maybe there are a lot of you that know a lot more than me 
>about
> >this simple subjects, but it's for sure that all of you had need some 
>help,
> >like if there is a fool obstacle that anybody can cross except you. At 
>this
> >moment I'm in front of this obtacles, and I'd really apreciate if 
>somebody
> >could help me to open my eyes.
> >
> >OK,  so, here is the matter: I'm begining to learn visual gaming
> >programing,
> >so I have found my first obstacles. These are especificallly:
> >1. If I draw an empty cube with just the ridges. How can I apply a textur
> >to
> >each side of this square
> >2. Wich kind of physics is needed to make the calculations of the change 
>of
> >a view  (f.e. let's say in a Wolfenstein like game, when you walk, there 
>is
> >an aproaching of the objects on the stage) How can I make this change on
> >the
> >scale in respect to the point of the viewer
> >and
> >3. How does a 3d engine works? Wich one is the first step to make one by 
>my
> >own?
> >
> >Please note that I'm just programing for DOS enviroment using Borland
> >C++4.5
> >(I think it's better to beginers like me and JC did Wolfenstein using a
> >previous version, so....)
> >
> >Thanks a lot!
> >
> >
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