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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't openGL and directX8 a set of libraries predefined with classes for use with game developement (e.g. sound or video)?
Does anybody know how I can see the code that makes up the libraries/classes? I feel this will give me a better understanding of what is happening.
Is the internal logic of openGL and directX8 written in a certain language?
I think SGI provides a sample implementaion for OpenGL, check out the site:
http://www.sgi.com/software/opengl/
also there is Mesa:
http://www.mesa3d.org/
I have been searching the sites you provided, but I was unable to find any bair bones code of the internal logic in OpenGL. Do you have a morespecific link to the library source that I can review.
DirectX provides COM objects, OpenGL functions. Both are for fast hardware access, OpenGL only for graphics, DirectX for input and audio devices and networking too.
OpenGL is an open standard, anybody can implement it. DirectX in theory too: the standard is not open, but the way DirectX works it could be implemented by anyone (and some deeply hidden parts are probably implemented by the graphics card vendors).
Thus there isn't any requirement on the language used to implement them either, any particular implementation might be written in Pascal for all you know. The only requirements are set by the interface.
Nevertheless, both DirectX and nearly all OpenGL implementations are probably written largely in C/C++ with a good deal of assembly mixed in.
download Mesa, it's an OpenGL implementation, the download link is on the main page, to the left.Quote:
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I have been searching the sites you provided, but I was unable to find any bair bones code of the internal logic in OpenGL. Do you have a morespecific link to the library source that I can review.
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OpenGL implementation
Implimentation do you mean a developement environment?
I like to write all my code from .NET compiler.
OpenGL is just a standard interface, anyone can implement this interface. The application that uses OpenGL will not know and doesn't need to know what implementation it is using.
no, what I mean by implementation is that they actually programmed OpenGL functions (glVertex*, glTranslate*...) so you can use them in your programs, this is exactly what you are looking for.Quote:
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Implimentation do you mean a developement environment?
I like to write all my code from .NET compiler.
thanks for the information.
I found some good links from the pages.