Multiplayer OpenGL

Ive been too a couple of sites and none seem to give me a proper answer, with OpenGL, can you actually program a full working game WITH multiplayer, or even a MMORPG. As I thought OpenGL was just a graphics API so how do yo get multiplayer with it or will I need to learn DirectX for multiplayer. Im asking this question because im not sure if I should continue learning OpenGL if I will need to learn DirectX later anyway for other parts of multiplayer programming. And if you can make a fully functional game in OpenGL with multiplayer then how? can someone please suggest some site or tutorials I could see?

Thanks,

Bonkers

DirectX and OpenGL are graphics APIs. That's _it_. You have to do network code to do multiplayer.

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Originally posted by dizolve
DirectX and OpenGL are graphics APIs. That's _it_. You have to do network code to do multiplayer.

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No, Direct3D and OpenGL are graphics APIs. DirectX is much more than that. Look up DirectPlay.

*coughs*
.. well anyway, I was simplifying it for him. Although, I didn't know about DirectPlay. Thanks for pointing it out.

you could also write your own net code, with winsock and BSD sockets. or use a library like HawkNL.

I am going to implement network play in BomberLAN with sdl_net. It's a light wrapper around the berkely sockets API so it's portable between linux and windows.

You can get it here

http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net/

There is documentation is here

http://jcatki.no-ip.org/SDL_net/

I contributed the MSVC projects for the version with in the .zip.