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AAARGGH!! OPENGL!!!
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Thanks for that.
Any good tutorials around?
AND, just how useful is opengl in 2D?
I suppose OpenGL could be used for just 2D rendering, but it's really intended for 3D graphics. But OpenGL is merely a tool and using it in different ways is generally a good thing :-) Once you setup an orthographic project, you could use texture-mapping instead of blitting (read as FAST)and you'd have a relatively easy-to-implement 2D engine that's hardware accelerated.
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--Orion McClelland
asteroids clone for practice so I'll probably
stick with DirectDraw for now!
HEADERS OR SDK's OR ANYTHING FOR OPENGL on
Win32!! It is driving me nuts!!!!
Where are they?
Problem is, it doensn't - Not anymore anyway.
My first opt when leaving the Amiga 4 years ago, was to go for a low-end SGI - But even back then, and despite some very helpful people at SGI who gave me a REALLY good offer, I could get more horsepower + better graphics from a similar priced PC.
Sad but true.
/Niels