Re: [Super-tux-devel] Rewrite Update AND Screenshot

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

 OpenGL performance deeply depends on the graphical card acceleration (and=
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driver, of course). nvidia support is really good under linux.

 If there were some more eyecandy in the OpenGL powered code than in the SD=
L=20
one, that wouldn't affected the gameplay...

Ricardo Cruz

Em Segunda, 12 de Janeiro de 2004 05:48, o Tobias Gl=C3=A4=C3=9Fer escreveu:
> Am So, den 11.01.2004 schrieb Ricardo Cruz um 18:20:
> >  I think that OpenGL support would be really cool, not only for
> > performance reasons, but also for future eye candy features. For
> > instance, we could do some parallax tricks on the background,
> > anti-aliasing support, better transparency...
>
> I'm not even sure that we gain any performance advantage. The OpenGL
> code is untuned at the moment, but now it is definitvly slower than
> the appropriate SDL code. We'll see the performance, when it's done.
> Hmm, if we implement such things like parallax tricks in OpenGL,
> wouldn't the SDL 'version' begin to behave differently. Good or bad?
>
> >  And there is no need for forking, since the game will still support SDL
> > for graphics, according to Tobias.
>
> Yepp.
>
> > Ricardo Cruz
> >
> > Em Domingo, 11 de Janeiro de 2004 22:49, o Chris Spencer escreveu:
> > > Sounds like time to fork.
> > >
> > > I still need to dig into the code and get a grasp of what's going on.
> > >
> > > It may be worth noting that I don't notice performance issues on my
> > > notebook playing it with the SDL version though.
> > >
> > > -Chris
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 21:28, Tobias Gl=C3=83=E2=82=AC=C3=83=C2=9Fer w=
rote:
> > > > Am So, den 11.01.2004 schrieb Chris Spencer um 15:53:
> > > > > Why not?  Just don't kill the functioning SDL version.
> > > > >
> > > > > What are you hoping to gain with the OpenGL version?
> > > > >
> > > > > -Chris
> > > >
> > > > The bug also effects the functioning SDL version.
> > > >
> > > > As I stated the OpenGL support is experimental and I
> > > > hope to gain smoother gameplay, when it's done.
> > > >
> > > > Greetz...
> > > >
> > > > Tobias Gl=C3=83=E2=82=AC=C3=83=C2=9Fer

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