Impressive: Earth-100.zip / GLScene

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Baker
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Impressive: Earth-100.zip / GLScene

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I found this very impressive. Both this and the Delphi toolkit that this utilizes are open source so this has my curiosity.

Info:

http://glscene.sourceforge.net/wikka/DemoEarth

Download:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=170007

(^^ the Earth-100.zip has the .exe ... I doubt many people have Delphi .. I don't .. so compiling from the other zip file which is the source would be a challenge. )
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I just permanently associate any download involving earth with Urre...
...and all around me was the chaos of battle and the reek of running blood.... and for the first time in my life I knew true happiness.
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Post by MeTcHsteekle »

hmm, i'm associating GL/engine stuff with Baker now
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Post by Baker »

MeTcHsteekle wrote:hmm, i'm associating GL/engine stuff with Baker now
If I want to make any progress supporting what I want to do on the engine side of things, I need to walk through every part of the rendering and the file formats.

And if I document as I do this, I can solve a future problem that I anticipate. :twisted: :twisted:

I get so aggravated when high quality documentation cannot be found. So far I've found quality OpenGL documentation to be scattered and largely un-user-friendly, lacking of pictures or focusing nearly exclusively on the 3d/lighting aspects and not providing balance.

This OpenGL stuff is easy except for the initialization overhead -- which isn't really all that bad, but requires experience.
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