Subject: OpenGL and games (was: Re: X-Box and PS2 port candidacy)
To: None , Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET>
From: Richard Rauch <rauch@eecs.ukans.edu>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 03/14/2001 18:27:18
Can you explain what you mean when you say that OpenGL doesn't support
proper translation math?  How would you change glTranslate*()'s
specification?

While OpenGL wasn't designed for games, it _was_ designed to do a good job
on graphics (for simulations, say) and to be _fast_.  Given
double-buffering, and assuming hardware acceleration (sigh), isn't that
exactly what a game programmer needs?


  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu