Bennu Game Development

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Title: OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: Sandman on July 16, 2008, 12:16:45 AM
I'm doing an OpenGL DLL for Bennu (http://booleansoup.com/index.php?p=43&m=viewpost&id=260). :)
Title: Re: OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: syous on July 16, 2008, 08:09:17 AM
 :o :o :o Congratulations :)
Title: Re: OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: izubiaurre on August 15, 2008, 10:45:11 AM
Hi Sandman!

pWhat is the idea for this plugin? Make all the graphic operations through OpenGL and so, faster than making by software?
Title: Re: OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: Sandman on August 15, 2008, 10:44:32 PM
Yep, every graphical operation is to be handled correctly. The current design is opengl/software hybrid to allow faster operations for maps not used on the screen and pixel manipulation.
Title: Re: OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: blostec on September 20, 2008, 03:00:32 PM

Sandman, what is the state of this project? Do you continue working in? I think that it's very interesting, thanks for you work.
Title: Re: OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: Sandman on September 25, 2008, 12:20:32 AM
Yes I'm still working on it. The status is pretty much working completely. I've got a weird problem with drawing graph to graph using B_TRANSLUCENT atm, but it'll get fixed soon enough.
Title: Re:OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: Grew on March 23, 2012, 12:14:25 PM
What about this project? Where can we download and try it?
Title: Re:OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: SplinterGU on March 23, 2012, 02:11:58 PM
I don't think so... sandman is missing in action... :(
Title: Re:OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: Outlaw on March 23, 2012, 11:20:18 PM
OMG this would be great to have! Does anyone know where Sandman is now?
Title: Re:OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: josebita on March 28, 2012, 09:41:16 PM
Well, he has some interesting code (including a kind of airplane planning simulator called "flight") floating in his SVN repos:

http://deathegg.student.utwente.nl/svn/ (http://deathegg.student.utwente.nl/svn/)


He looks to have played with llvm, and other stuff, juding from what can be seen there
Title: Re:OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: handsource-dyko on March 29, 2012, 05:15:00 PM
Hmmm. Ut twente! Funny, that's in the area where I live! I know the university campus. I studied in eschede myself (but not at the university, I'm not an academic). I actually visit that city occasionally.
Title: Re:OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: JaViS on March 29, 2012, 11:06:57 PM
Hi,


just a technical question, cause I don't know Bennu's source code.


Is it possible to replace SDL with OpenGL?
Title: Re:OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: FreeYourMind on March 30, 2012, 04:49:05 AM
SDL support OpenGL
Title: Re:OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: josebita on March 30, 2012, 01:42:31 PM
Quote from: JaViS on March 29, 2012, 11:06:57 PM
Hi,

just a technical question, cause I don't know Bennu's source code.

Is it possible to replace SDL with OpenGL?
Yes, it's possible although not desirable in most circumstances. To be clear:
SDL does a lot of things and is arguably the best multi-platform library to do them:
* Input device handling (keyboard, mice, touch, jostick...)
* Window-manager related tasks (creating windows, setting window title, icons...)
* Clipboard management
* ...

And actually, we don't want to replace it there because those are working extremely well. What would be interesting to have is an OpenGL/OpenGL ES based blitter that can do everything that BennuGD does internally in some of it's libraries, just much more efficiently.
If those new libraries were written well enough, it'd be a matter of replacing the dlls in a normal installation and things would work beautifully :)
Title: Re:OpenGL DLL for Bennu
Post by: JaViS on March 30, 2012, 06:14:01 PM
Understood! makes sense :)