Dev C++ question

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footybet

I am wanting to write a game that will be pretty intensive in 3D

I need to know of any tutorials and libraries out there to get me going

with Dev C++
in a game programming sense...

Thanks in Advance...
 
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Rolf Magnus

footybet said:
I am wanting to write a game that will be pretty intensive in 3D

I need to know of any tutorials and libraries out there to get me going

with Dev C++
in a game programming sense...

Well, you have to choose a 3D API then. A good choice is OpenGL, which is
very powerful and portable. You can start with that by looking on
http://www.opengl.org , and for some good tutorials
http://nehe.gamedev.net .
 
F

footybet

how do I download a copy of OpenGL? I can't find a download page on the
website
and does it cost anything?
 
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Rolf Magnus

footybet said:
how do I download a copy of OpenGL? I can't find a download page on the
website and does it cost anything?

OpenGL is just a standard. You need an implementation of it. Depending on
your computer, the graphics driver might include one. The most popular
mainstream 3D accelerators are created by NVidia and ATI, which both
include OpenGL in their drivers.
Otherwise, you could try the free and mostly OpenGL compatible Mesa library.
You could also look into the comp.graphics.api.opengl newsgroup.
Oh, there is another popular 3D API as part of DirectX from Microsoft. I
never used that though, because it's not portable and doesn't support my
main target architecture.
 
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BobR

footybet wrote in message
how do I download a copy of OpenGL? I can't find a download page on the
website and does it cost anything?

How did you get Dev-C++ and not get the OpenGL libraries? Did you look in the
'DevCpp/lib' directory for 'libopengl32.a'? Do you have an
'Dev-Cpp/include/Gl' directory?
 
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osmium

footybet said:
I found OpenGL last night in the Dev C++ package
here is my first program www.worldchamp.org/cyberspace.exe

If you want people to look at something, don't give it a file name ending in
..exe, that looks scary. Upload the source code instead. People on here are
about as likely to download that as they are to swallow something when some
guy on the street approaches them and says, "Here. Take this pill".
 
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Rolf Magnus

osmium said:
If you want people to look at something, don't give it a file name ending
in
.exe, that looks scary. Upload the source code instead. People on here
are about as likely to download that as they are to swallow something when
some guy on the street approaches them and says, "Here. Take this pill".

Even if that guy offers you a red pill and a blue pill to choose from? ;-)
 

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