On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Warp wrote:

> > Nicolas--
> >
> > Why are you using D3D and not OpenGL?  OpenGL is not only better, but
> > it's portable.
> 
> Our main target are Windows users, we have no plan on porting the game under
> Unix/Linux.
> It's true that OpenGL is portable, but Direct3D enable a better control of
> the video card,

 What is a "better control"? OpenGL and DirectX have the same 
functionality, and I don't know any popular 3D-cards without OpenGL
drivers. And, some cards, like very popular NVidia, have much better
OpenGL then Direct3D.

> But after all, a game is a game, and if it is well designed (hope it is :)
> then you always can modify your low level calls to switch from D3D to OGL
> and vice-versa.

 Sure. And I noticed, that many games works much better with OpenGL then 
with D3D (on my NVidia card).


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