[gameprogrammer] 2D vs. 3D was RE: Re: PC game Outsourcing
- From: "Jason Clark" <jclark@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:02:47 -0700
So much for civil discussions....
I keep finding myself tossing back and forth between using 3D grapics and 2D
graphics for the project I'm working on (hobby project that is). To
continue my engine development (I know there are a million out there, I am
just learning how it all works), I needed some graphic resources to test
against and in putting those together, I am really torn. I can use a 3D
resource to create my 2D sprites which makes them look good but takes a lot
of work to get them right. Where as if I were to just take those 3D
resources (.obj and .max files) I could integrate them much quicker, but
creating more will be very time consuming &| expensive, not to mention
another learning curve to integrate them.
Have any of you had to ponder this before? What were the major pros|cons you
dealt with. Unfortunately being new in the graphics world I only have
hear-say about it. Intuitively I would think that 2D blitting would be
faster, but I have heard that with most modern hardware, it can actually be
faster to do the 3D calculations. Anyone have input?
Thanks,
Jason.
-----Original Message-----
From: gameprogrammer-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:gameprogrammer-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Marco Alvarado
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 9:43 AM
To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: PC game Outsourcing
I don't see why talking about war could be out of the
game programming thread, since many games actually use
the war topic: strategy games, shoters, etc. But
anyway, this is my last post about it. So I want to
let everyone go with an example:
If war is the major developer of technology, it would
be good for the world to have a huge war. Let's take a
rich country that have shown to take advantage of war
to create technology. Let's take... United States! Ok,
United States will make a war with... Mexico! Great,
because from this war Unitedstatians will get the Cure
for Cancer, and Mexicans will get the Atomic Weapon.
The world is enhancing. Now United States will fight
with... Canada! Wonderful, they got the Time Travel
(since this war was more difficult), and Canadians get
the Cure for AIDS! Cool, it's the game of our lives!
Regards!
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