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

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

 Ingo, I don't think that any exclusive OpenGL features will be used, so 
SDL/GL can surely co-exist. It could have just a couple of eye candy 
additions..

Ricardo Cruz

Em Segunda, 12 de Janeiro de 2004 19:29, o Ingo Ruhnke escreveu:
> Ricardo Cruz <ri...@ae...> writes:
> >  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...
>
> If you want eye-candy I would dump the 2d-SDL version completly.
> Mixing the newest eye-candy while still trying to provide an old
> software 2d target will just give quite a huge headache, it would
> basically require to fork of two different versions, since you can't
> rely on some special-fx for an endboss or in a level without breaking
> the 2d target. If you on the other side don't use any of the eye-candy
> so that OpenGL and SDL can co-oexist, OpenGL would be quite a waste,
> since 640x480 in 2D is quite handable without OpenGL if no
> alphablending or rotations are in use, the OpenGL target wouldn't be
> of much use.

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