ZenGL

[paul_nicholls]

Nice work! I will have to check this out

cheers,
Paul

[WILL]

Very cool! I was wondering when some kind of announcement was going to come from this project.

I love the fact that it's all encompassing with it's features. One of the nicer things is that it's multi-thread supportive too. (Looking back to your loading demo you posted about before.) This will help games made with it run so much nicer on newer systems that have multi-core processors. ie. My iMac is a Quad Core i7 so the threading support will make a huge difference on my system for example.

All these new engines and game libraries coming out now, I'm going to have to bring back my game library guide for newcomers.

[dazappa]

This looks like it might replace my use of andorra and SDL. I am curious what "basic set of collision-functions" you have (based on a translated page), I am guessing it might be bounding-box, and circles. Polygon and pixel perfect would be marvelous, however these can require some effort...

[Andru]

it's multi-thread supportive too

This version doesn't support this feature. There are a lot of work, that must be done(some functions must be modified(not only loading resources), and also there is something that I don't like in architecture ), so I decided not to include multi-threaded resource loading in this version.

I am curious what "basic set of collision-functions" you have (based on a translated page)

Some set of functions that check if points, rectangles, circles and lines are collide. Oriented bounding-box maybe will be added later. I just have not thought about it, because didn't encountered with this.

[WILL]

Oh ok, well then I don't like it anymore. lol Just kidding, but it was a really neat demo. It would be good to have such features in your game engine eventually.

[dazappa]

Hm, I get an "Error while linking" under Ubuntu 10.10 (for any demo). I'm about to reboot and try it under win7.

[Andru]

Hm, I get an "Error while linking" under Ubuntu 10.10 (for any demo)

Just read Compilation help You must install these packages:
- libgl1-mesa-dev
- libglu1-mesa-dev

all other needed packages comes with fpc 2.4.0 from Ubuntu repository(I don't know what about deb's on official website). And I want to warn you - demo08 will not work, if you don't put some dll's(libogg and other) to bin directory You can download them here