What are the renderers YOU are using?

GameDude · Post by **GameDude** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:24 am

I use OpenGL all the time, although sometimes D39

Ion Dune · Post by **Ion Dune** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:49 am

OpenGL, mostly because for the longest time I didn't have the dx sdk and thus couldn't compile it from the SVN.

Mirror · Post by **Mirror** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:22 am

dx9 user here ( mainly because it was a bit faster with my card ). or should i say user wannabe since i haven't been active for months

wITTus · Post by **wITTus** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:04 pm

Burnings renderer... because my gfx card is completely br0ken.

So I'm very happy that it is there! Thanks Burnings

Dorth · Post by **Dorth** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:48 pm

Well, perhaps in light of this poll we could check about stopping the support of DX8 and software (not burning) by 1.6R? Seems appropriate.

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:44 am

If the Xbox is the only reason why we're keeping DX8 support, the official XDK uses Visual Studio 6 which we've dropped anyway.
If we keep Xbox development but drop the official XDK (afaik none of us have a license anyway) the OpenXDK uses SDL and doesn't have hardware acceleration, so that's not really a good reason to keep DX8 support either.
imo the only reason to keep DX8 is if we have devs who enjoy supporting it!

No comment on software 1 for now. It would be really cool if we could swap it for BlindSide's software raytracer though

tewe76 · Post by **tewe76** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:47 am

imo the only reason to keep DX8 is if we have devs who enjoy supporting it!

Hum, like i said, i'd really like DX8 still supported, as many old machines use it.

Dorth · Post by **Dorth** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:13 pm

There is no point making new development on it. You can still use the 1.5 branch. It's as good as you'll get or mostly, anyway.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:58 pm

There's no point to drop it. As long as nothing really breaks the driver, we can keep it (with more or less features supported). And we will.

hayate · Post by **hayate** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:45 pm

I use both OpenGl and DX9 (and rarely the burning renderer)

tewe76 · Post by **tewe76** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:25 am

There's no point to drop it. As long as nothing really breaks the driver, we can keep it (with more or less features supported). And we will.

That's ok.

wITTus · Post by **wITTus** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:48 am

bitplane wrote:No comment on software 1 for now. It would be really cool if we could swap it for BlindSide's software raytracer though

Indeed. I for one, would love to see raytraced Irrlicht scenes! Software 1 is redundant IMO.

Edit: Nobody speaks about the poor NULL device

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:35 pm

Well, Null driver has pretty good FPS

Dorth · Post by **Dorth** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:38 pm

Null is essential and is used for a whole different purpose than all others. It is pointless to bring it in this debate as it's about the only one that will likely always be there. (Though a scattering of it's functionality to other sections making it useless and permitting easier switching amongst the others and such would be nice ^^ )

Pyritie · Post by **Pyritie** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:00 pm

open gl here

Irrlicht Engine

What are the renderers YOU are using?

What renderers are you using presently?