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

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:48:09AM -0500, Tobias Gl=E4=DFer wrote:
> 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?

If this is the case, I hope that we have an SDL-only version that can
be invoked by the user.  Some people don't have high end video cards,
and it would be stupid to create a 2D platformer game (especially for
kids, who often end up getting the left-over hardware from their parents
or uncles :^) ), which would be unplayable!

Have options for:

  OpenGL with lots of eye candy  (for systems with high-end gfx cards)
  SDL with lots of eye candy     (for VERY VERY VERY high-end systems)
  SDL with 'regular amount' of eye candy   (for everyone else :^) )

-bill!