Thread: is there a way to do this on C++?

cool thanks a lot.

ill see if i can get openGL, ive heard so much about it

im having trouble finding openGL. where could i find it?

http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Getting_started

The Windows version is not kept up to date so MESA3D is probably the distribution that you want. The OpenGL community releases versions for the high priority platforms first, and Windows is not high priority.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

The OpenGL community releases versions for the high priority platforms first, and Windows is not high priority.

Btw, before anyone dismisses this ^^^ as twaddle, remember that 3D graphics are used in far more than just games

OpenGL is used in medical imaging equipment, CAD and modeling software, etc. etc.

Games (or any leisure activity) are fairly low down on the list of importance, when up against serious professional use-cases in the same area

and no-one runs medical equipment under Windows, hence the bias toward Unix systems

just thought I'd clarify that....

Games are fairly high up on the list, however most people often forget that Windows isn't even close to being the dominate platform for gaming, the Wii is, followed by the PS2, then the PS3. You don't see any Microsoft gaming platforms until way way down the list.

There priority list looks something like this:
Sun and Apple products (These are the two major developers of OpenGL)
Medical and critical hardware (These are the major financial backers of OpenGL)
Linux (Biggest target, almost every phone in the world runs Linux and embedded OpenGL)
High priority game platforms
Windows

Actually, starting with 3.0, Glu has officially dropped Windows from their list of supported platforms, so also download MESA

thanks for the help guys.

and woh, i didnt think the list would be like that!

and i think im going to start learning C++ before i get into all that openGL stuff.

http://www.cplusplus.com