RE: DirectX and OpenGL

["Dournaee, Blake" <bdournaee@rsasecurity.com>]

I’m assuming here that DirectX is sort of an acronym where you replace the
‘X’ with ‘draw’, ‘sound’, ‘3d’, etc. Is this correct?

I’m sure Microsoft’s website has DirectX information, but is there another
place to go? ( I really, really hate that site.).

Thanks,

Blake


-----Original Message-----
From: Frag_ Daddy [mailto:frag_daddy_@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 10:29 AM
To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
Subject: RE: DirectX and OpenGL



    It's faster with the 2d crap, but OpenGL's not that much slower than 
it... and faster in the 3d stuff (IMHO).  I personally like DirectDraw, but 
prefer OpenGL over Direct3D, but either one will work.  DirectDraw, however,

does give you some nice advantages, mostly direct access to the video 
memory.  If you like that, go for it, but OpenGL will probably work...and 
you won't have to learn much else for the 3d stuff.


>From: "Dournaee, Blake" <bdournaee@rsasecurity.com>
>Reply-To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
>To: "'gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com'"  
><gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
>Subject: RE: DirectX and OpenGL
>Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:55:45 -0700
>
>I looked around and there seems to be a lot of good information on OpenGL,
>but as you say, very little on DirectX. I'm going to be writing a 2D
>overhead view game (a view similar to say, Baldur's Gate).
>
>Is DirectX going to be that much faster for 2D that warrants *not* using
>OpenGL which looks like it might be easier to use?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Blake
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Holley [mailto:comp_brain@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 8:34 PM
>To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
>Subject: Re: DirectX and OpenGL
>
>
>I'm not very experienced with OpenGL, but I do know that in 3D, OGL kicks
>D3D badly.  However in 2D, DD's blitter is much faster than OGL, so what 
>you
>
>use depends on what type of game you're making.
>
>Oh, and DirectX is only Windows, and to my knowledge, OGL is everything,
>Unix, Linux, Windows, or anything else.
>
>-Brian
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >Can someone tell me the difference between DirectX and OpenGL? They are
> >both
> >2D/3D graphics API's, correct? One is made by Microsoft and one is
> >open-source. Is this correct?
> >
> >Is there a particular advantage to using one over the other?
> >
> >
> >Blake
> >
> >
> >
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