RE: [Dev-C++] moving to 3d programming

[Ioannis V. <iv...@em...>]

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> Hi!
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> I forgot one more thing: DirectX tends to be incompatible.=20
> For example:=20
> 3DMark 2001 uses DirectX 8.1, but if you upgrade to DirectX=20
> 9, then 3D=20
> Mark 2001 won't run. So you might as well have problems in this area,=20
> while with the carefully designed OpenGL API, you'll not.
> BTW John Carmack also recommends OpenGL (and so does he uses it too),=20
> and "unrecommends" DirectX.


Of course, Quakes and other ID stuff use OPENGL. OPENGL is standardised =
by a
board of graphics companies.

And the new OPENGL standard (I do not know if it is still upcoming or =
not)
is completely object oriented.






Ioannis Vranos
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