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OpenGL 1.3 Spec Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the for-the-graphics-guru-and-the-wannabe dept.

JigSaw writes "The OpenGL Architecture Review Board announced the new OpenGL 1.3 specification (1.8 MB pdf). In OpenGL 1.3, several additional features and functions have been ratified and brought into the API's core functionality. New features include Cube map texturing, multisampling, new texture modes that provide more powerful ways of applying textures to rendered objects, compressed texture framework etc. Let's all hope that GL can catch up with Direct3D now, as with the latest DirectX8, Direct3D has done some big steps towards feature-set, speed and even non-bloatiness when it comes to coding for it, while OpenGL 1.2 was released more than 2 years ago and it did not offer as much."

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  1. Re:I'm can't wait by Lizard_King · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    OT: Seems to me like this is where you get all your material.

    Blowing karma for originality.

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