DirectX 9.0 Support?

devnull · Post by **devnull** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:00 am

So, on the downloads page and the archived news page, it talks about a DX9.0 module for Irrlicht. However, it's marked as deprecated and there is no way to download the code (even to use as an example to look at). What happened to it?

[dx/x]=HUNT3R · Post by **[dx/x]=HUNT3R** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 3:22 pm

It was made by someone else, not Niko. I was wondering if he was going to make another for the new version. He may have gotten tired of making a new one each time a new version of the engine was released...

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 4:47 pm

I believe I may still have a copy of it.

I had played with it a little, but since there wasn't many major usable changes on a base level between 9 and 8.1, I didn't mind sticking with 8.1.

When I get home, I could upload it to my server for informational purposes. I would update it myself if I wasn't currently working on 3 projects. =)

devnull · Post by **devnull** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 5:31 pm

So if the code is available to make the engine up to date with 9.0, why would the engine stick with 8.1? Not a criticism at all, I'm just honestly curious.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 9:43 pm

Hi guys!

I'm the author of the DX9 module for Irrlicht. I didn't got time to make the DX9 driver when 0.4 was released, so I decided I'd update it when Irrlicht 0.5 came up. But if somebody "really" needs it, I could make an effort and release it for the upcoming 0.42 version.

Julio Gorgé

[dx/x]=HUNT3R · Post by **[dx/x]=HUNT3R** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 9:54 pm

I know about not having time... I vote for v0.5

devnull · Post by **devnull** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 10:05 pm

Time issues I understand =)

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm not sure why it even would be a separate module instead of part of the core functionality of the engine. Even having a DX8 AND a DX9 component seems doable.