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Mesa 4.0 Implements OpenGL 1.3 Spec
Jacek Fedorynski writes: "Version 4.0 of the Mesa 3D
Graphics Library has been released. The first thing in the changelog says "Mesa 4.0 implements the OpenGL 1.3 specification"." That was quick. Perhaps the next revision of the OpenGL specification will say "Now fully compliant with the Mesa 3D vision."
The reason it happened so quick is that most of what went into OpenGL 1.3 has already been around as extensions for quite some time. Mesa had already implemented those extensions and only needed minimal changes to bring it into compliance with the new version of OpenGL.
Why is this -1?? Sounds reasonable to me..
Because he's trolling - and because he picked a lame title.
If he'd posted the same ideas with a few reasoned arguments and without all the prejudice then it might have been a worthwhile post.
Er... the big money's in scientific visualisation. Which DX sucks for. We're talking $50000 per license software here - which no one in their right minds runs on windoze. Up until recently, it's mainly been run on IRIX and Slowlaris, now it's migrating to Linux.
OpenGL is geared towards high poly counts. DX to low poly/large textures. And OpenGL has defined bindings to pure C and Fortran, while DX is a pain in the arse from anything but MS-bastardised C++.
OpenGl is for 3D, hardware accelerated in most cases. SDL is just an easy interface for direct manipulation of video, audio, input and so on, (Simple DirectMedia Layer might give a hint).
Oh, excuse me, did I interrupt your trolling?
And doesn't SDL uses OpenGL as it's 3D API?
yep
OpenGL 1.3 is too little too late.
DirectX has already taken the gaming community.
"Taken the gaming community" as in a con? Now that I might agree with. However, OpenGL is the 3D API for Macintosh and all Unix platforms, and is used for many games in addition to almost all professional 3D applications. It'll be around long after Direct3D is an old, bad memory. :-)
And for the 0.00001% of game developers that develope for linux, there is the SDL.
Really, including 3D? Man, the quality of the trolls around here is really dropping fast.
C'est la vie.
A saying Microsoft should really get used to... ;-)
299,792,458 m/s...not just a good idea, its the law!
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
Score: -1 100% Flamebait
True, but it is largely 3D API agnostic. It could easily be adapted to another one.
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Actually, because he's a regular troll, and posts at -1 by default. With that in mind, I for some reason doubt he'll be modded up.
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