Re: Quartz Extreme or OpenGL?
Re: Quartz Extreme or OpenGL?
- Subject: Re: Quartz Extreme or OpenGL?
- From: Bryan Blackburn <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 01:40:09 -0600
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
If you know OpenGL, that would definitely be the way to go. Why? QE is
simply Quartz using OpenGL under the hood to get the speed improvements:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/quartzextreme.html
Bryan
On Apr 9, 2003 23:16, email@hidden stated:
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I'm more familiar with OpenGL than I am with Quartz Extreme. However my OpenGL
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background comes from a Unix background - not sure what's involved to get it
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working in Cocoa yet...
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I am curious as to the performance. Which performs better? The native Quartz
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extreme or OpenGL?
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Zameer
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2003 23:14:43 -0700 (PDT), Chaz McGarvey wrote:
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> Do you know OpenGL?
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> It depends on what you're after. I would use OpenGL for all my
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> graphics needs, but that's because I know how to use OpenGL and I might
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> as well. If you are new to graphics programming or game programming
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> (or Cocoa), you might be better off with a lesser learning curve. It
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> also depends on the project. Will you want to sell it? (Not that you
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> can't sell a QE game or that QE is inferior, but you have to consider
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> these things) or are you just coding for fun... Will you want to port
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> your game? Etc, etc.
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> On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 11:43 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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> > pros and cons anyone?
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> > I'm trying to write a 2D game for OSX and am trying to decide what
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> > graphics API
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> > I should use?
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