OpenGL 4.0

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:40 am

News: http://www.opengl.org/news/comments/khr ... n-with-op/

Interview: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/video/2259393/gd ... onos-group

Forum: http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards ... ber=273669

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:34 am

Yeah, I've already updated the glx includes and added checks for the newly added extensions. New extensions will slowly be put into Irrlicht.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:09 pm

why are there 2 versions coming out at the same time? 3.3 and 4

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:56 pm

so we will have real tessalation in irrlicht?

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:18 pm

Just buy me the gfx card and we'll see

The two versions require different abilities fo the gfx card. 3.3 is for DirectX 10 cards, 4.0 is for DirectX11 cards.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:46 pm

*sigh* it means that I can only have OGL up to 3.3. but i doubt most games will use OGL though

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:06 pm

hybrid wrote:Just buy me the gfx card and we'll see
The two versions require different abilities fo the gfx card. 3.3 is for DirectX 10 cards, 4.0 is for DirectX11 cards.

dang not even i got a dx11 card....

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:17 pm

I can see that Irrlicht is slowly becoming an OpenGL-favoured engine. Progress on dx10 driver is too slow.

sRc · Post by **sRc** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:19 pm

Virion wrote:why are there 2 versions coming out at the same time? 3.3 and 4

3.3 is a rollup spec for older hardware, and 4.0 is for new hardware

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:28 pm

Virion wrote:I can see that Irrlicht is slowly becoming an OpenGL-favoured engine. Progress on dx10 driver is too slow.

well i am using linux so dx is not even an option for me

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:32 pm

Sudi wrote:
Virion wrote:I can see that Irrlicht is slowly becoming an OpenGL-favoured engine. Progress on dx10 driver is too slow.
well i am using linux so dx is not even an option for me

actually i wish irrlicht could be openGL-only engine so that a lot of features can be implemented without worrying whether it can be done the dx way.

but of course it seems like not quite possible.

disks86 · Post by **disks86** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:33 am

So, I'm a little behind the curve I just heard about 4.0. For some reason I'm super excited about it. As for Irrlicht being an OpenGL only engine. Some graphics cards have better performance with DirectX so I think it is good to give the end user options.

But anyway from my understanding in terms of functionality OpenGL and DirectX are now equal. I don't really know anything about the APIs except for a very basic understanding of a hand full of tutorials I looked at many moons ago. However shouldn't this make it easier to implement new versions of the video driver stuff for irrlicht?

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:57 am

disks86 wrote:However shouldn't this make it easier to implement new versions of the video driver stuff for irrlicht?

afaik someone is doing dx10 driver, and some other guy is doing opengl 3.3 driver. it's not easy so we'll have to wait for some time.

by the way OpenGL is being marketed poorly. Where are the demos that running openGL 4?? They should have made some to show the adventage of using it, not just saying "oh well, it works just the way like DirectX11"!! convince the developers to use OpenGL.

if they themselves can't make something good from openGL, why should other developers use it? I don't want a floating triangle or a rotating cube.

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