Re: [Glgui-dev] abstract rendering & more

[sfranke <sf...@us...>]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, SiO2 Software wrote:
[resource registry]
> Very nice, but please don't compromise speed. Us people who are going to use
> the UI will want to use it for our in-game HUD's too! ;-)

Right now I'm just looking at using it to handle shaders, fonts, cursors,
coordinate systems and borders.  So that it's easy to say, use the
"blue" shader.  This will make it easier to define all the shaders in a
file somewhere and reference them.

I think I'll leave the actual frame/widget/etc creation as it is.  Of
course it will be much smoother in a file loader, but I couldn't come up
with a good alternative.  We can always work on it later if it's too much
of a problem.

> Soon as I get some free time I'll do the Direct3D port (piece of cake!)

Did you take a look at the opengl implementation?  There's not much to
it.  I'm thinking about doing a more optimized version later (with display
lists and compiled vertex arrays), and then maybe one that created beveled
3d buttons just for fun.

[relevance of the project's name]
Yeah, I've noticed that as well.  Unfortunately, there's no way to change
the sourceforge project name (to my knowledge), so that will have to
remain.  I've started calling it GameGUI in the class docs, but it's still
open.  I guess we could come up with a snappier name if anyone has any
ideas.

Scott Franke [druid-]
 sf...@gl...