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jubbincake Nov 2nd, 2004 9:01 PM

I visited a game development site and every tutorial, or at leats alot of them were in directX. Is this better than C++ for programming games and stuff, or is C++ the best of all? I also saw alot of tutorials on mmorpg's but they were all in VB.. wierd? or is it me?

big_k105 Nov 2nd, 2004 9:23 PM

Directx is just a bunch of libraries for creating games using C++ :)
like different graphic libraries for windows

101 Nov 3rd, 2004 9:28 AM

.........OpenGL.......

Pizentios Nov 3rd, 2004 9:54 AM

I am a OpenGL Supporter also.

Benoit Nov 3rd, 2004 4:24 PM

OpenGL sounds really cool...I was always interested in geometic primitives, but I can't find a good about Open GL anywhere

kurifu Nov 3rd, 2004 11:29 PM

Choose DirectX or OpenGL, they are both libraries, they serve as extensions to a given language, typically C or C++ in which facilitate making games. The breakdown if... if you want cross-platform oriented code use OpenGL, if you want a library that also support Sound, Input, Networking, and various other features used in game than use DirectX--OpenGL is graphics only.

C/C++ is probably the most commonly used language for gaming, the reason is simple. It produces compiled code that is clean and executes very quickly, as compaired to a lot of other languages which are a bit clunky when compiler... VB especially.

VB.net is likely used a lot in MUDS because of its ActiveX controls which facilitate working with sockets.. not to mention a lot of MUDs are "newbie creations" and lets face it.. VB is being taught in a lot of schools these days.

I recommend C++, you can do more with it.


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