Re: SDL and 3D

[Pierre Phaneuf <pp@ludusdesign.com>]

Karl Bartel wrote:

> > > > certainly sounds like it's, graphically, best suited for 2D.  What I'm
> > > > wondering is: what is Loki using for their Myth II port?  OpenGL?
> > > > Something else?
> > >
> > > It can use glide. I don't know if it's done throug Mesa or not.
> >
> > Isn't that just for the Voodoo framebuffer, AKA "Very slow 2D on a
> > 3Dfx"?
> 
> The 2D parts are done with SDL. Only the 3D part (the main part of the
> game) is using glide.

SDL cannot do *anything* by itself (2D or 3D), it always need a "target"
underneath, like Xlib, Svgalib or something like that.

But I confused SDL with the 2D portion of Crystal Space, which has
routines to do 2D with Glide (and can be used separately of the 3D
renderer, which amounts to slow 2D on a blazingly fast 3D card). :-)

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