Directx version of FOF possible? - is it?

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Postby dvs954275 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:11 pm

I am wondering could there be a Directx version of FOF? y/n wouldnt that run faster on some computers. :)
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Postby BSRaven » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:23 pm

If there's a Python library for DirectX, it'd take a lot of re-coding, but I imagine it being possible.

Unfortunately for you, most people here prefer the OpenGL it currently uses... Probably bcause it's a free library, pyOpenGL.
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Postby dvs954275 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:31 pm

thx wouldnt it run faster? and would support 3d objects
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Postby BSRaven » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:41 pm

OpenGL supports 3D objects. 2D notes and keys were implemented in MFH-Alarian mod for performance reasons (although why a MegaLight theme wasn't also included bewilders me)
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Postby dvs954275 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:47 pm

what if it is written in C++?
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Postby omfgdrphl » Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:14 pm

^You would have to make a whole new game, which we have. (Strings on Speed)
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Postby nwru » Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:33 pm

A DirectX version would probably be faster, BUT it would screw over our Linux and Mac users. Multi-platform compatibility was the reason FoF was done in OpenGL in the first place.

Porting from Python to C++ wouldn't really be that tough, just tedious. I mean, we already have all the source code.
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Postby arfn24 » Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:40 pm

For mac you'd have to port to Objective C.
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Postby blackfriday » Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:29 pm

Yeah, DirectX is limited to Windows. It wouldn't be good for FoF to lose all it's Linux and Mac users. I think 3D animations are possible with FoF it's just not the time to do it right now. Even if we could just somehow quicken the loading speed of the picture cycles/animated backgrounds, I would be satisfied.
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Postby NickGreen91 » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:34 am

dvs954275 wrote:what if it is written in C++?

It has been suggested.

A guy on SourceForge.net made a sort of FoF clone called "StringsOnSpeed"
but its faulty... 1 in probably 1000 people can actually get it to run.
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Postby omfgdrphl » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:40 am

NickGreen91 wrote:
dvs954275 wrote:what if it is written in C++?

It has been suggested.

A guy on SourceForge.net made a sort of FoF clone called "StringsOnSpeed"
but its faulty... 1 in probably 1000 people can actually get it to run.

^You would have to make a whole new game, which we have. (Strings on Speed)
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Postby raynebc » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:50 am

I'm not familiar enough with Python, but if it can load and run external code, then parts of it might be able to be written in platform-specific code.
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Postby h3r1n6 » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:35 am

Java clone that runs as applet?
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Postby dvs954275 » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:44 am

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