Re: [Super-tux-devel] SuperTux

[Christopher A. W. <cw...@du...>]

Ingo Ruhnke <gr...@gm...> writes:

> Old hardware (<<1Ghz) won't work anyway in software, so thats out of
> the race. Most likly candidate for non-OpenGL machines are laptops
> with unsupported graphic chipsets, those however should have a few CPU
> cycles to spare in most cases, something to try out on them:

I dunno.. I used to have an ATI Rage 128 card in my old 600 mhz
computer, and it could run games just fine as long as they did not use
opengl.  I loathed games with opengl-only support.  However, shortly
before getting my laptop (which is not my primary computer) my friend
did give me an NVidia card which worked well with OpenGL.

My laptop works well enough with OpenGL.  Still, I have to
wonder... how much extra coding effort would it take to make effects
which are OpenGL only (like the sunbeams on water... which doesn't
seem really necessary, but would look nice) just not display with
OpenGL disabled?  Or is the real problem that this would prevent us,
or slow us down, from adding new features to SuperTux?  I could see
how some gameplay elements might work right only with OpenGL.. perhaps
like implementing the "sliding down the slope" Tux (which, when fying
through the air, would probably have to rotate on a curve to look
nice, right?)..

Though I would prefer to see an option to keep an option to go without
OpenGL support, if it holds back development, I can understand it
being cut out.

Christopher Allan Webber