Game API's

Dregnought · Post by **Dregnought** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:32 am

I'm just wonderng if anyone knows of any decent game API's that PB can use. Cause if not, i'm just gonna have to move to c++.

Poshu · Post by **Poshu** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:02 pm

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:48 pm

It depend of what type of game you want to code because PB can use Ogre wich is an awesome 3D Engine.
For 2D, built in functions should be enough and they are optimized.

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:15 pm

Of course pb can also access DirctX and OpenGL directly thougfh you will need to search this forum for converted Headers, if you don't want to code lowlevel and don't like ogre or think ogre is to complicated maybe c++ isn't the right thing for you anyway

Dregnought · Post by **Dregnought** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:30 pm

For 2D, built in functions should be enough and they are optimized.

Not really.

It depend of what type of game you want to code because PB can use Ogre wich is an awesome 3D Engine.

PB's Internal Ogre engine is pretty skimpy, compared to the real thing.

And it's not only that, I can't do other API's like physics or Audio (Fmod-ex anyone?)

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:48 pm

If you feel Professional enough you can also use import to import a Lib, there is soem FMod include around though. However please tell me about the 2D game where PB's functions are not enough

dracflamloc · Post by **dracflamloc** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:17 pm

One where you need sprite stretching and rotation. Sprite3d doesn't count

Flype · Post by **Flype** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:29 pm

Dregnought wrote:
For 2D, built in functions should be enough and they are optimized.
Not really.

Well, C coded games should be faster, but not necessary !
IMHO, BGames/Polux demonstrates the quality of the purebasic 2D engine as you can see if you follow this link : http://www.bgames.org/ENlethal3.html

andreyu · Post by **andreyu** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:04 pm

Flype wrote:Well, C coded games should be faster, but not necessary !
IMHO, BGames/Polux demonstrates the quality of the purebasic 2D engine as you can see if you follow this link : http://www.bgames.org/ENlethal3.html

PureBasic doesn't allow to make cross-platform games because many functions not implemented (for example Sprite3D not implemented on Linix).

CadeX · Post by **CadeX** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:16 pm

Why the heck did you bump a 3 month old topic, again?

Joakim Christiansen · Post by **Joakim Christiansen** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:57 pm

CadeX wrote:Why the heck did you bump a 3 month old topic, again?

Is that illegal or what?

thamarok · Post by **thamarok** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:23 pm

Joakim Christiansen wrote:
CadeX wrote:Why the heck did you bump a 3 month old topic, again?
Is that illegal or what?

Perhaps you didn't read CadeX's ToS:

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CadeX · Post by **CadeX** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:17 am

No, i just saw it absolutely pointless as the thread starter hasn't been on for months.

Kale · Post by **Kale** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:54 am

CadeX wrote:No, i just saw it absolutely pointless as the thread starter hasn't been on for months.

That doesn't matter. As long as the reply is relevant you can contribute to threads years old. Remeber that a lot of people (other than the original author) use these threads for research and learning.

dell_jockey · Post by **dell_jockey** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:33 am

Kale wrote:Remeber that a lot of people (other than the original author) use these threads for research and learning.

for that purpose, I include an URL to bgames.org that is working: http://www.bgames.org/ENindex.html