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[NovaCaine]

Hey all,

About to embark on the 3D train and was wanting to get everyone's input on which API to use. What I'm wanting to do is create a 3D Isometric engine and was unsure about which API would be best suited for the job.

The only real 3D stuff I've done was with DirectX, but by the looks of OpenGL it's pretty similar.

So please leave your comments on which API you think is best for the job.

Thanks
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[jsgf]

OpenGL is similar, and GU isn't too far off either. For me, the main advantage of PSPGL is that you can keep (mostly) the same code running on both the PSP and desktop, which allows for much easier debugging. Also, PSPGL does a lot of things for you which you would have to do on your own in GU (like command buffer management, texture/vertex array memory management, cache flushing, etc).

[NovaCaine]

Hmmm, Thanks for that jsgf

I've been looking over the tutorials by NeHe - im guessing the implementation on the PSP is basically the same?

Also is there support of multi-pass texturing (i think that's what it was called) - where I can render more than one texture to a triangle/quad and perform blending?

Thanks again for the help
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[Raphael]