vbGore: What's next?

rochal · **Joined:** Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:38 am **Posts:** 109

Yeah Spodi,I 100% agree. Bring it on, use XNA for Presentation layer, and maybe ICE for networking.

Are you just talking here, or there is already some progress in development?

bakekitsune · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:41 pm

Your talking in OSI language for some reason...

and XNA ewwww....

nex666 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:04 pm

Well i'm probably going to do the presentation layer in DX or something, at the moment it works so that you can use anything you want for the presentation..you can just write your own.

bakekitsune · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:48 pm

Definitely.

I would love scalability in an engine, thats where 99% of engines fall hard, and 99% of the reason i never use them. I like it when all the code is in the one spot as well, instead of calling from all different modules just to make it "appear" smaller when its really not, and then having to go through all those modules just to change something.

grenadier42 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:32 pm

nex666 wrote:

Well i'm probably going to do the presentation layer in DX or something, at the moment it works so that you can use anything you want for the presentation..you can just write your own.

You know what would be neat?

Code:

#if PLATFORM_WINDOWS
using DirectXRenderEngine = RenderEngine;
#elseif PLATFORM_LINUX
using OpenGLRenderEngine = RenderEngine;
#endif

void Render()
{
     RenderEngine.RenderModel(fool);
}

Then, just define a PLATFORM_XXX constant, "#def PLATFORM_UBER", and check the constant during compile-time or whatever to determine which .dll to use, OpenGL or SlimDX. Theoretically, both dll's have the same render and handling method names, they just call different components. *mwahahaha*

Code:

// in OpenGLRenderEngine library
void RenderModel(Model model)
{
     OpenGL.line(model.Lines);
}

Code:

// in DirectXRenderEngine library
void RenderModel(Model model)
{
     model.DrawSubset(0);
}

As an example.

Awesomeness. Pure and simple. No OS left behind. :)

Sephiroth187 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:02 pm

Spodi · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:05 pm

Uhm, lay off the C style programming. This is 2008. We have had a little something called "interfaces" and "polymorphism" for the past many years. No need for preprocessors.

Zanval · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:35 am

let the user chose the renderer rather than the OS forcing it.
when i run windows i run openGL preferrably.
just gets me more frames on my Nvidia

nex666 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:17 pm

I'll have that stuff in the client that's editable and just have a "Graphics Factory" so that you can use anything as long as it implements the IGraphics interface

grenadier42 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:04 pm

Eh, that's just how I would do it, since I suck. :lol:

That sounds neat, Nex. Yay for PDA VBGORE!!!

Makuo · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:58 pm

Interesting, and Spodi, it was an example, lighten up :'(

Sephiroth187 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:23 pm

again... lol XD

Zanval · **Posted:** Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:56 am

grenadier42 wrote:

Eh, that's just how I would do it, since I suck. :lol:

That sounds neat, Nex. Yay for PDA VBGORE!!!

yay for extreme cross platform mmorpgs! :P

bakekitsune · **Posted:** Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:48 am

Cool does that mean i could port it to my NES?

grenadier42 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:09 am

Maybe. :rofl:

IT CAN HAS 16-BIT VBGORE! *mwahahaha*

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