Ghost
March 6, 2018, 3:48am
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Hi, i was wondering if we’ll be seeing DirectX 10/11/12 support anytime soon or in the future? Just thought i’d ask here.
rdb
March 6, 2018, 11:03am
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It’s not out of the question, but someone would have to put in the effort to do it. (I started work on this a long time ago, and it’s quite doable, but have since lost all my files relating to it.)
I would personally prioritise Vulkan support over DX11 support, though.
Ghost
March 9, 2018, 4:03am
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rdb:
It’s not out of the question, but someone would have to put in the effort to do it. (I started work on this a long time ago, and it’s quite doable, but have since lost all my files relating to it.)
I would personally prioritise Vulkan support over DX11 support, though.
Was looking at Vulkan stuff, i would too tbh. Since its cross-platform
rdb
March 9, 2018, 1:00pm
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For the record, this post addresses the Vulkan port, with a link to the branch it’s being developed on:
As many of you may know, Khronos released the new Vulkan graphics API last week. It’s a low-level alternative to OpenGL that offers much more low-level control over the hardware, offering the potential of reduced driver overhead and allowing the engine to perform multi-threaded rendering. It is seen by many as the successor to OpenGL - which is over 20 years old at this point - since Vulkan fixes many of the perceived flaws with OpenGL.
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