Hello. I'm slowly progressing through C++ and I'm at the point of wanting to make GUIs / interactive interfaces.
I've done a few things with Window API, and now I wish to move on to either OpenGL or DirectX. Could anyone please explain the technical difference between them (which does what better) and post tutorials for each?
This is all stuff that 30 seconds of googling can get you...
If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
OpenGL is portable and focused around C
DirectX is windows only and focused around C++
As for which to choose.. If you want to code for more than windows, OpenGL.
If windows only, look at some tutorials for both APIs and decide with syntax you prefer the most. You can produce the same end result in both.
Ok. After looking into this I decided to give DirectX a try.
First of all, how exactly do I enable the library for use in projects? (I didn't find any ".pc" files for pkg-config)
And secondly, any good tutorials for it? I've mostly found this- DirectX Tutorial.com - Game Programming with DirectX
but it has premium-only features, which I dislike. If it's the only good one, say so though ^^ ty.
Ehgh. While DX is more than capable for what you need... Use OGL. Just because
OGL is easier to start with, but along the way both it and DX because almost equally difficult. I would choose by thinking performance first. All decent programmers know that in Windows, DirectX tires the CPU much less. On the other hand, trying to cut my way through the COM interface is too much for me...
EDIT: Above all, OpenGL is what it says only, while DirectX is DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectSound, (DirectMusic?), and some more i don't remember.
Last edited by GReaper; 07-25-2011 at 03:27 PM.
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OpenGL is not just it. In fact, there is quite a bit of them:Above all, OpenGL is what it says only, while DirectX is DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectSound, (DirectMusic?), and some more i don't remember.
These are all the sources are provided by "Khronos Group", the owner of the OpenGL API since July 2006.- OpenGL, a cross-platform computer graphics API
- OpenCL, a cross-platform computation API.[5]
- COLLADA, a file-format intended to facilitate interchange of 3D assets.
- OpenGL SC, a safety critical profile of OpenGL ES designed to meet the needs of the safety-critical market
- OpenKODE, an API for providing abstracted, portable access to operating system resources such as file systems, networks and math libraries
- OpenGL ES, a derivative of OpenGL for use on mobile and embedded systems, such as cell phones, portable gaming devices, and more
- OpenVG, an API for accelerating processing of 2D vector graphics .
- OpenMAX, a layered set of three programming interfaces of various abstraction levels, providing access to multimedia functionality
- OpenSL ES, an audio API tuned for embedded systems, standardizing access to features such as 3D positional audio and MIDI playback
- EGL, an interface between Khronos rendering APIs such as OpenGL ES or OpenVG and the underlying native platform window system [6]
- OpenWF, APIs for 2D graphics composition and display control
- OpenML, an API for capturing, transporting, processing, displaying, and synchronizing digital media
- WebGL, a JavaScript binding to OpenGL ES within a browser on any platform supporting the OpenGL or OpenGL ES graphics standards
There is also OpenAL (for audio) provided by Loki Software, which has the same look and feel of OpenGL and friends.
The best part of OpenGL is that it is a cross platform API that is supported by:
OpenGL and friends can work on Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android and more. Not just limited to a Windows computer and xbox.AMD/ATI
Apple Inc.
ARM Holdings
Creative Labs
id Software
Ericsson
Intel Corporation
Motorola
Mozilla
Nokia
Nvidia
Samsung Electronics
Sony Computer Entertainment
Oracle/Sun Microsystems
Texas Instruments
Full list of all of its supporters & contributors at:
Khronos Contributing Members
Khronos Academic Members
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