| From: | Andreas Hippauf |
| Date: | 17 Apr 2000 at 20:20:51 |
| Subject: | Re: glElite for PPC |
Hello fRaC^tioN
Am 17-Apr-00 schrieb fRaC^tioN:
> Couldn't you all use MiniGL instead of StormMESA as it doesn't use
> RMB... think that neither glElite nor LightForce need the full
> functionality of StormMESA... I compiled my first proggy under MiniGL
> and i really like that stuff... keeps me off from doing my own
> clipping stuff under warp3d (that was a mess ;).
Well, I will take a look on miniGL, BUT
as the situation on amiga-market is still very unsure, I intend to write
the game on MESA, which will allow me to easily swap over to linux(ppc)
or x86 or even windows, if any of my amiga-hardware or even the
community itself should brake apart...
If miniGL is very near to mesa, I dont exclude a miniGL version. But
first the game will be written in mesa and might be optimized to miniGL
afterwards.
> Other thing is to catch the RMB event directly from CIA when window is
> activated, but this also requires StormMESA menus to be disabled
> (dunno if this works, never really worked with that.. but.. thougt
> menus where glut stuff(??)) As i said, i prefer MiniGL for gaming as
> it's the faster solution 8)
The main problem of window-mode is AFAIK not the right mouse button, but
the mouse cursor itself. When you move it out of the window, you start
doing other things when clicking around, like starting programms from
toolmanager, opening hd-drives and directories and so on. In any kind of
action-game you need an option to restrict the mouse in some way to the
gamewindow, I guess.
> Btw., thanks to the FriedenBros for that nice piece of software!!
Thanks a hundred times, when I get hereticII for the amiga!
Regards
Andreas
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