the difference between irrlicht and cg/HLSL ?

7 · Post by 7 » Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:15 am

can someone please explain the difference between irrlicht and cg/HLSL ?

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:22 am

What's the difference between oranges and apples? Irrlicht is a game engine written in ISO C++, whereas CG and HLSL are Nvidia and M$'s shader languages. Irrlicht doesn't support shaders, but if it ever did I'd imagine it would be in CG, because HLSL is the same language but only runs in DirectX, whereas CG runs on DX and OpenGL

7 · Post by 7 » Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:06 pm

oranges look different, they are orange and apples are green/red and they taste different

ok, thanks i understand that with cg its possible to make some nice graphics, but not to make a game, right ?

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 1:09 pm

It does stuff like motion blur's, stuff like that. It is a very small part of any game, but then Irrlicht is only 1/3rd of the game, if that. The majority of any game is things that are unique to the game, having a 3D engine is a bit like having a real car engine, all very nice but you need the chassis, axel's, wheel's etc. CG is the equivilent of a NOS tank in the back, completely useless on it's own but damn cool when combined with a car

( I'll stop the analogies now )