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An Open Source Direct3D 8.0 Wrapper for Open GL

Posted by timothy on from the rosetta-stone dept.

Jason writes: "RealTech-VR, creators of the V3X 3D engine, also developed a Direct3D-to-OpenGL wrapper and they have now open sourced their work. They are seeking for more hackers to help porting the wrapper to Linux and MacOS. A lot of the functionality of Direct3D is already ported but it still needs quite some work. Get the scoop at OSNews."

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  1. Direct3D and the Mac by feldsteins · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have always viewed Direct3D as a Really Bad Idea for the Macintosh platform. I mean, that's all we need is to hitch our 3D waggon to Microsoft. We'd always be a version behind, some features would never be implimented, etc. And then when all game manufacturers were using D3D, whoops! Microsoft isn't supporting D3D on the Mac anymore.

    Even some game developers I have spoken to seemed pretty positive about the idea. "if only we could do D3D," they said. I think otherwise for the reasons stated above.

    And what does this new "wrapper" mean to us? I hope it doesn't mean that Game developers or porting companies don't bother with the OpenGL conversion (when necessary). For if this turns out to be the case I fear the sceneario above may come to pass in the long run. Bottom line is, this scheme seems to still leave 3D on the Macintosh platform vulnerable to the whims of MS.

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  2. SDL/OpenGL vs DirectX OR the end of open standards by XRayX · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not sure if this is a good thing. Of course it might be great to have something like this integrated to Wine to play DirectX Games under Linux, but if the other wrappers (DirectSound/Input/Play etc.) are implemented and run something stable, me as a game developer would think twice about porting this to truly open standards like OpenGL and SDL ("Why don't use the DirectX wrapper?").
    So if you see things on the long run, this might be more a damage than a boost to native Linux/OpenSource game-development.

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  3. Make it a non issue by DeadBugs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    STOP buying D3D games
    KEEP buying OpenGL games

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  4. Re:Not much there by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: 4, Insightful
    They are about where we were 18-20 months ago, and this is certainly not keeping me up at nights.
    True enough -- but there was a time when Linux wasn't keeping the SCO people up at nights either. Fear commoditization.
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