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

[Tobias <tob...@gm...>]

Am So, den 11.01.2004 schrieb Bill Kendrick um 20:27:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:48:09AM -0500, Tobias Gläßer 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 :^) )

I always planned, that you can disable and enable SDL or OpenGL
by a command-line option.
Moreover I'll also provide a option to compile SuperTux without
OpenGl.

Greetz...

Tobias Gläßer