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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!caen!hookup!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!tuolumne.asd.sgi.com!akin From: akin@tuolumne.asd.sgi.com (Allen Akin) Newsgroups: comp.graphics.api.misc,comp.graphics.algorithms,comp.windows.x.i386unix,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps Subject: Re: Freeware community needs 3d library NOW Date: 25 Jun 1996 22:59:49 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4qpr15$6fv@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <4qlf04$7pj@guysmiley.blarg.net> <31D027F3.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: tuolumne.asd.sgi.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.graphics.api.misc:625 comp.graphics.algorithms:28954 comp.windows.x.i386unix:20350 gnu.misc.discuss:26703 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22115 comp.os.linux.development.apps:18042 In article <31D027F3.2781E494@FreeBSD.org>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: [jkh's thoughtful comments omitted for brevity] | ... even with that degree of backing I think it's fair | to say that Direct3D is going to bury it [OpenGL]. That's definitely a possibility, though not a certainty. D3D immediate-mode is lacking quite a few of the features that commercial 3D applications need, and as people get more experience with its hardware support model, they're going to discover that it has a few interesting shortcomings. :-) D3D retained-mode is a good solution for certain classes of games, and it will succeed in that market until it falls behind the technology curve due to Microsoft's long development cycle, or until someone comes up with a great new incompatible idea that takes the gaming world by storm. My opinion only, of course. Allen