Hi Carlos, On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani < e0325834@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
joel wrote:
Make this some kind of boost::graphics, target both dx and ogl or w/e in a seamless fashion, then you have something worthy.
This is commonly found in 3D graphics engines. However, a low level ogl/dx abstraction is time-consuming, and ultimately not worth it, because both APIs, while roughly equal, differ in many details, which sums up in a low-level abstraction that covers the lowest common denominator. It is better to abstract in a higher semantic level, however this is hard to accomplish as a general 3D rendering library (and probably not very useful, since rendering applications vary wildly in their feature requirements and applied techniques).
I have repeatedly stated my belief that it is futile, if not insane, to attempt to make a system that uses either DirectX or OpenGL. That is the reason that I explicitly suggested boost::directx, rather than boost::killmenow.
In short, even then we don't even have something useful for boost.
Perhaps. I only wished to raise the issue and provide some demo code. What happens after that is up to the boost community. Regards, Christian.