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Jon Raymond (jon@neurodne.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Jason Collins wrote:
: : Hi all,

: : Also, if anyone could point me in the direction of any existing code
: : or graphics libraries that would be great.

: Sorry, I don't use them. Also, most of the existing ones require X (I think),
: and you're (most likely) using svgalib. You need something like Mesa or
: OpenGL. These are well supported and OpenGL is pratically standard. There's
: also a guy here on r.g.p that has knocked up a library called Free3D.

That guy would be me.  Free3d is certainly not a complete 3d rendering
library (it hardly renders 1 polygon!) but it's got some very solid
C++ support libraries.  One of the features of Free3d, is that the 3d
rendering code has no idea what X11 or SVGA or any of that is.  It
writes to a "plain jane" raw memory interface.  The portable
framebuffer library takes an arbitrary GUI and makes it look like a
raw memory interface.  Thus, doing a port to SVGAlib would be trivial.
In fact, somebody once proved the "triviality" of such ports as
proof-of-concept... this guy knocked up a Win95 version in 1 day's
time.  Free3d was designed from the ground up to be ported to all
CPU/OS platforms at no loss of efficiency.

As I said elsewhere in this thread, anyone is welcome to use Free3d as
C++ starter code for their projects, under the terms of the GNU
Library Public License.

Cheers,
-- 
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