Re: [Plib-devel] Release 1.8.5....and a glimpse of the future.

[Jan R. <slo...@gm...>]

Am Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:11:49 -0600 schrieb Steve Baker <st...@sj...>:

> However, the new, improved SSG will be PERFECT for that stuff.  If it 
> has 'plugin' capability as I'm planning - then PUI simply builds an SSG 
> scene graph and plugs in it's own culling mechanisms.   SSG provides the 
> geometry maintenance, shader services, etc.  It's a good match.

Steve,

all that you wrote about "PLIB-2.0" or however it will be called sounds
very interesting. And I hope that someone will implement something like
PUI on top of it. PUI was one of the main reasons why I chose PLIB for
CRRCsim - originally I was only looking for an OpenGL font library to
implement my own GUI, then I discovered PUI, and then the rest of PLIB.

And right now the references to PUI are the main reason why I stick
with PLIB-1.8.x although other SceneGraph libs are offering more features.
Using a different scene graph for model rendering would be an easy task,
but rewriting all the GUI code would be impossible. And I'm quite happy
with it, so why change it? I hope that we still can get a PLIB-1.8.x
release every now and then even after PLIB-2.0 is born, just in case bad
bugs have been fixed.

Kind regards,
Jan R.

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