I broke down the other day, bought some books on DirectX, and started on crusade to learn as much as possible about modern game development with the end product being a game of some sort. I'm finding it to be both a very difficult and a very facinating subject. By posting to TCLUG I was hoping to find other people interested in the subject to trade thoughts and ideas with. "Brush up" on your quaternions? You must have encountered them before. They are brand new to me. Not only had I never heard the word before, but neither is the subject covered in any of the mathematics books I have. The only thing I've found is a historical note in a vector calculus text. I'm guessing the subject may have been covered in the abstract algebra class I did not take in my physics major. I'm also finding that my linear algrebra knowlege is a bit lacking. I nevered studied 3D rotation, translation, and scale transformations using 4D homogenous matrices. What is Octane? Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-devel-admin at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-devel-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Terry Mallberg > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 8:20 AM > To: Mike Bresnahan > Cc: Tclug-Devel at Mn-Linux.Org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG-DEVEL] Game Development > > > Yes, > I have used OpenGL to write a 3D Tetris-like game. It was mainly > a way to brush up on my quaternions and linear algebra and how to > implement sucj things in OpenGL. It was about 2.5 years ago, and > developed with an Octane as the target platform. I tried it out on my > linux box and it was painfully slow even though the machine was a > screamer at that time (dual Xeon 450, Matrox G200). I am sure it would be > a lot better now. > > Why do you ask? > TD <mallberg at joyce.eng.yale.edu> > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Mike Bresnahan wrote: > > >I'm wondering if anyone on the list has done any 2D or 3D > animation or game > >development using OpenGL, DirectX, SDL, SVGA, or other API. Anyone? > > > >Mike > > > >_______________________________________________ > >tclug-devel mailing list > >tclug-devel at mn-linux.org > >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-devel mailing list > tclug-devel at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-devel