I'm developing a game which requires static polygonal model rendering with 2D "bit blitting"-style overlays. These are my eventual requirements:
1) Render a 3D heightmap with arbitrarily-specified tileable texture maps. 2) Render static 3D models on top of the heightmap. 3) Render 2D images on top of the heightmap. 4) Rotate and scale 2D images. 5) Modify the alpha channel of 2D images. To reduce the development time required to make the game playable, the client app's scene renderer will initially be implemented in pure 2D, but I'd like the final product to use both 3D and 2D. My questions are: 1) Which GAMBAS components use graphics hardware acceleration, either through OpenGL directly or via the OS's display manager (OpenGL with a middle man). 2) Which GAMBAS components, hardware accelerated or not, render graphics the fastest. 3) What are any general graphics-related tips you may have regarding my requirements? 4) Is there anything in the GAMBAS development pipeline that I should be anticipating? Thanks all. With its ease of use, I'm hoping GAMBAS could be the XNA of Linux and OSS indie game development and am doing my part to make it so. ----- Kevin Fishburne, Eight Virtues www: http://sales.eightvirtues.com http://sales.eightvirtues.com e-mail: mailto:sa...@eightvirtues.com sa...@eightvirtues.com phone: (770) 853-6271 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/best-components-for-game-graphics-development-tp27913695p27913695.html Sent from the gambas-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
