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From: "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net>
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        "Pawel Kowalski" <pk AT tcs DOT uni DOT wroc DOT pl>
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Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 15:06:39 +0100
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> >> I think that most 3D API's have everything needed to write a good 3d game.
> >> However I may be wrong... :)
> >
> >YOU WHAT?! Call yourself a programmer?
> >
> >Other things that are needed include talant, and a brain. These are
> things that about
> >half the modern day 3D programmers are without.
>
> What I wrote concerned only graphics. It's obvious that a game must be based on
> a really good idea, programmer must be good at maths, physics, etc.
> I realize it's not very ambitious.
>
> >Trouble about APIs is that the more powerful they are, the less you have
> to program.
> >If you can do 3D in software, not using any APIs *then* you're a programmer. And a
> >game does NOT have to be 3D to be good.
>
> Writing a win32 game (that uses 3D hardware) without any standard 3D API
> is like writing
> DJGPP DOS program without libc.
> Have you ever seen a game (that uses 3D hardware) which doesn't use 3D
> API? (like DirectX, Glide,
> OpenGL) I haven't. And I'm sure there will ever be no such game. Besides,
> it's almost impossible
> to write a faster 3D API than OpenGL, DirectX, Glide.

Read the paragraph that I wrote above. It is indeed almost impossible to write a
hardware-based 3D system without an API; but I said "3D in software, not using any
APIs"

You can beat software APIs using your own routines, if you're good (and several demo
crews are). This is why I said that you're a good programmer if you can do that.
Using an API requires much less talant.

James Arthur
jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net
ICQ#15054819