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  1. Stuff by crisco · · Score: 1 · on OpenGL vs. Direct3D?
    I've gotta echo the sentiments of others who've already posted and said this is a stupid question for Ask Slashdot. Predictably, you've received a bunch of wrong answers from ill-informed people.

    But, since you've asked, we're all gonna answer.

    A quick search on Google gets us some answers.

    Historically intersting is this commentary on this very topic from John Carmack from December 1996. This article at Gamecenter rehashes Carmack's comments and adds some other game programmer's comments.

    Another spoon-fed link will be GameDev.net's 3D API forum, where there is a discussion on this very topic between people who actually use the APIs in question.

  2. Stuff by crisco · · Score: 1 · on OpenGL vs. Direct3D?
    I've gotta echo the sentiments of others who've already posted and said this is a stupid question for Ask Slashdot. Predictably, you've received a bunch of wrong answers from ill-informed people.

    But, since you've asked, we're all gonna answer.

    A quick search on Google gets us some answers.

    Historically intersting is this commentary on this very topic from John Carmack from December 1996. This article at Gamecenter rehashes Carmack's comments and adds some other game programmer's comments.

    Another spoon-fed link will be GameDev.net's 3D API forum, where there is a discussion on this very topic between people who actually use the APIs in question.

  3. Game development by billcopc · · Score: 2 · on Finding Developer Toolkits On The Web?

    Well I don't know moose about app development kits (I personally don't have much faith in all this distributed computing layered application design crap - Client/Server forever!). But I do know a bit about game development, although (don't lynch me!) it's mostly Windows/Dos stuff. here goes nothing :

    Gamedev.net
    Game programming resources (huge link list)
    CDX DirectX wrapper


    Well.. it's a good start for newbies, or when you're just too tired to code a weighted anti-aliased Bresenham's algo. =)

  4. Re:Any good tutorials to near-beginner in OpenGL? by jeroenb · · Score: 4 · on Programming OpenGL Articles
    These are some sites that were very useful to me when I was learning OpenGL:

    - NeHe productions has over 20 OpenGL tutorials online, starting at the absolute beginning.
    - The OpenGL Challenge is a weekly OpenGL compo that requires entries to be opensource. Has some *really* cool stuff.
    - Romka Graphics has loads of misc OpenGL stuff, worth checking out.
    - The OpenGL FAQ and troubleshooting guide is another overload in OpenGL-related material.

    And besides that, I also run my own daily news site located at www.demoscene.org and is all about multimedia development, so a couple of OpenGL-related links turn up every week. Hope this helps...

  5. Re:Any good tutorials to near-beginner in OpenGL? by Gingko · · Score: 3 · on Programming OpenGL Articles

    Best bet is to get the "Red Book" - the OpenGL programming guide. This is a great book, especially if you're new to graphics concepts. (Although, if you want a good graphics book, Computer Graphics Principles and Practice by Floey, Van Dam et al. is still the best text IMHO).

    The Red Book is available online here

    Some good tutorials are here .

    For general information, plus a lot of good links, www.opengl.org is the place to look.

    Gingko

  6. Re:Why Gaming is important by MrHat · · Score: 1 · on Carmack Speaks

    Keep in mind that Carmack is also an all around nice guy (tm). Take a look at this site detailing his relationship with the Starlight foundation. Not only does Carmack give back to our (gaming/coding)community, but he's also been pretty good to the community at large.


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