OpenGL 2.0 Released 353
berny@work writes "OpenGL has finally released version 2.0. The benefits include Programable Shaders, in particular: Shader Objects, Shader Programs, OpenGL Shading Language and changes to the Shader API. If you are interested take a look at the tutorials and the case studies that are linked to from the OpenGL site."
Why no comparison with D3D? (Score:2, Funny)
- OpenGL [bloodgate.com]
- Direct3D [scrontsoft.com]
I personally think Direct3D is a bit better, since it can apparently handle more than one separate object at a time.
Back to the drawing board, OpenGL dudes!
Learn from Microsoft next time.
Re:Does this work with older cards? (Score:2, Funny)
Shizzle is not a word. It's a flag. To the rest of the world that the speaker of said word is a fucking dumbass.
It ranks right up there with "bling-bling".
Seeing how you actually tried to use it in a serious sentence, I figured someone should tell you.
Awesome! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Versus DX successor (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Versus DX successor (Score:3, Funny)
From the makers of Return to Castle Wolfenstein!
From the makers of Quake!
I sense a pattern...
Re:Does this work with older cards? (Score:3, Funny)
I would, but not as much as the folks who modded that flamebait as "Insightful"!
Now, please excuse me, I have to take a shizzle and get back to earning my bling-bling.
Yeah but (Score:5, Funny)
Look, all I want to know is if I can shade something.
Re:Point Sprites? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Does this work with older cards? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Who the fuck cares (Score:4, Funny)
Too Little, Too Late (Score:5, Funny)
YES!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Reading OpenGL tutorials is such a harsh remind (Score:5, Funny)
APIs are indeed most of the work. Learning a language completely is simple (unless it's perl, and no, that's not a flamebait), but it's the APIs that make you an effective coder. When I first started web-coding, I knew next to nothing. It took me a while to find my way around things in perl (the Camel book helped). I'm pretty sure if tomorrow I need to do a Java Enterprise project, I'll be messing about for a couple of weeks in finding my way. Unfortunatly this is a fact that many managers seem to forget.
When I first read the openGL API I wanted to run to the bookstore and get lots of books on the subject.
When I thought about it for a while, I wanted to run to the bookstore and get lots of math books teaching me the skills I need to do things.
When I got a girlfriend, I gave up on the "running to the bookstore for knowledge" and started thinking about other things.
When said girlfriend and I broke up, I was preparing for endterms.
When I got a job, I thought "I'll have time in the evenings to learn new stuff".
When I was working for 3 months I discovered that I really didn't want to code at home anymore.
When they fired me (yesterday) I thought "I wish I'd spent some time learning openGL."