I’m not sure if it’s still true now, or was ever true. And if, for some reason, you still agree that it is a legitimate marketing strategy, people should at least be aware of its existence they can then choose whether to put up with the inefficient and intuitive (but immensely marketed) solution or a solution that is superior and offers even more benefits (like portability to other platforms)… I don’t mind competition, but making false benchmarks and forcefully breaking or downgrading a feature of the operating system is going too far. It is also a fact that many people (developers and users) fell down to the misleading performance comparisons between OGL and D3D or of DX 9 and DX 10 (read Chris Hecker’s open letter and nvidia’s presentation)Ĭonclusion: OGL is more efficient and easy to use (at least for a good period of time)… the reasons why it wasn’t popular were similar to the reasons why Blender isn’t so popular right now in the CG industry (hint: marketing and false stereotypes) I read some D3D history as well and many sources said that especially the first versions of D3D were so horrid that many game developers decided to keep making games for DOS…
I don’t understand why you keep bringing up this “Microsoft wants to make money” arguement… i think it’s pretty obvious that they do and neither me nor the article implied that we wanted microsoft to fall or go down the depths of hell…īack on topic, It is a fact that John Carmack was able to easily port Quake to OGL, and on the other hand had a lot of problems with the horrible D3D API to the point he decided to not write the port altogether. I am going to get back to work.Īlthough, I would side with OpenGL, just because it’s cross-platform, and because I’m a fairly dedicated Linux user (whether it’s better or worse is a discussion for the experts). To make this into a forum post rather than a novel.
#Opengl vs directx 11 software#
I made a live CD to teach 3D game content creation a few years ago with PClinux, Blender, and I had the software rendering open GL so I could teach on any rented system from the live CD, that way there was no risk of me corrupting their existing OS while installing experimental software. You can already do OpenGL on non-3D accelerated GPU’s with *nix and the Mesa drivers, but it is just not quite the same. Or you will need things like MAME or MESS or DOSbox to run your old games. It needs the help of hardware producers to exist. OpenGL is somewhat Cooperate freedom, but do not forget, Without Nvidia, ATI, and Intel supporting it, OpenGL could disappear. I would just concentrate on what is available now, and not worry too much about the future unless you are a studio with a 5 year project already planned and in progress. There might not be anything on the market that runs linux or the new google OS. In 1-5 years there may not be a microsoft. Having a seperate modeler and Scene rendering tool was a complete pain in the ass. Notice also from the above video, that the interface of Lightwave up until about version 7 never changed from the old Amiga interface.It is where I learned a lot of my skills, but I really hate the interface to this day. Not to mention that the cameras they are using where around $2500 a piece.Īnd at no time do they ever claim to be able to stream media via network. Well here is the actual footage, as you can see the 3d scenes have to be pre-rendered. (this was the time period when 1200 baud modems where the norm, and 2400 baud modems where for the rich). Things like the infamous “video toaster” where in america they advertised 8 year old children in one house, giving a real time rendering presentation with 3D scenes and real time video all composted together to impress their friends in another house via modem. Commodores biggest problem is that they could not deliver what they where advertising. (bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, and many many others). It was endorsed by some of the greatest artists of all time.
It was going to be the ultimate computer,… and for a short while it was. Will absolute power corrupt them absolutely ?Īt one time, I remember every one of my friends running to the Amiga. I wonder who is going to be next? Will it be Steve Jobs? Or Mark Shuttleworth? Or Google? Every time I see Ballmer I want to kick him in the … Now IBM does IT, and basic custodial work to make money. Bill Gates had this great new language he sold to IBM called gwbasic, which later turned into basic. They did pcdos first for IBM then later just called it MSDOS.
Especially when they are known to be Patent and copy write trolls.I actually remember when Microsoft was the “Cool” new company, with a fresh new OS for the IBM PC. I just use OGL because Microsoft makes me feel dirty inside. Thanks to Cedega, and WINE you can translate some versions of Direct X to OpenGL.
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