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Sad that we don't even have full support for a standard that is over 12 years old. Meaning, it is sad that our 3D support is worse than what was available over 12 years ago.

>> OpenGL 2.0 is 12 years old.

> [...] a standard that is over 12 years old. [...] was available over 12 years ago.

2 weeks short of 12 years, to be more precise ;-)

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We are not giving you a hard time, its just that it is a rare occasion when Andreas resorts to humor (and that was funny).
I wonder what the pizza is like in South Africa?

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Actually, I think that Andreas resorts to humor much more often than most of us realize, but because it is such a "dry" type of humor, many/most people miss it, and therefore don't realize how funny Andreas really is. It took me a very long time to even begin to understand Andreas posting style, and frankly, I was quite "put off" by his style at first. I actually get a fair bit of enjoyment from his humor, now that I have seen it for several years.

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Really? I am sorry for no answer. :( However I don't remember any mail with question about my micro-engine.

I’ve developed Encore Engine since 2007 but it also uses various sources/ideas which I written between 2000-2007. During last 2 years I redesigned/reimplemented almost whole engine and currently I am finishing the refactor. The engine is very simple and requires: old OpenGL 1.4 (TinyGL), C++, SDL 1.2. I am going to remove the SDL in the future because I use only several functions from the library. Additionally I created plugins necessary for export 3D data from Blender to files in format supported by my engine. Currently I support: MorphOS, iOS, macOS, Win32 (probably - I don’t use Windows). If I had more time, I could port it to: AmigaOS4 (small effort), Linux (small effort), Android (medium effort). Now I am focused on: MorphOS, iOS and macOS because I prefer and use these platforms. The engine is my hobby and it is created only for my projects. I added to the engine what I need and how I want. I don’t want create easy to use and scriptable engine. It should be comfortable for me and my projects. :)

I have alpha-version of one simple indie-game based on the engine. Whole basic mechanic works. The alpha-version doesn’t contain any graphics (instead of real objects I use temporary place-holders). Development of the game currently is frozen because I am redesigning/reimplementing engine. However on the beginning of 2017 I am going to back to the game and adapt it to the Encore Engine 4.0.

I will not open the sources because I am not able to support developers which would use the engine. My free time is very limited and I can’t use the time for support other projects. I develop my projects with veeeeery low speed. It is my hobby, I love it and I “waste” each piece of free time for this. :) I am still going to release some projects for MorphOS/iOS/macOS. I hope I will be able to finish the ideas soon…

Greetz (and sorry for my weak English)!

Mariusz “MDW” Włodarczyk
Encore Games

interesting.

Gl4es allows a quick port of the IrrLicht engine .

[ Edited by Spectre660 28.08.2018 - 12:30 ]

The WebGL standard is based on OpenGL-ES 2+ and the parts missing from ES can be mostly added from a software patch called GL4ES. The possibility of Vulkan would be better but there's not much open source to leverage apart from Google's GL-ES compatibility module to run on Vulkan, Mesa and DirectX 11. TinyGL seems to be hopelessly obsolete by comparison.

Would it be practical or possible to tweak the old TinyGl engine ?

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It's been discussed. Mark Olsen has said he'd like to enlist Michal "Keiro" Wozniak in anything like a major overhaul.
In the past, Frank Mariak, Keiro and Bigfoot would have been the primary MorphOS developers for something like this.

If they are serious about a move to X64, something more advanced than TinyGL would be a nice development.

@Samurai_Crow
Given the currently supported systems, WebGL should be rather low on the list of priorities.

If you have a chance, take a look at WebGL on MacOS PPC...

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For now, you're right. Not any point at this time. That should wait until after x86-64 and better JIT on the Javascript or ASM.js if possible.

> Gl4es allows a quick port of the IrrLicht engine .

Indeed.

http://www.os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=development/library/graphics/irrlicht.lha
https://github.com/kas1e/Irrlicht
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/?p=1679


Edit: 1st link corrected (contained blank space)

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 03.01.2020 - 10:07 ]

quick indeed.

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Above link doesn't work for me, so I've added this corrected link - OS4Depot_FILE_irrLicht.lha


[ Edited by NewSense 03.01.2020 - 03:31 ]

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That wasn't quick, that for sure. There were lots of issues to fix before release (and many inside of Irrlicht too) as well as some inside of gl4es itself, as well as some in ogles2/warp3dnova.

But as I wrote in that news-post, I managed to build it even for MiniGL, and it was kind of working: much slower than over gl4es/ogles2/warp3dnova, have rendering issues, crashes, some parts just didn't run and all that stuff, but point is that if one will just take my version from here: https://github.com/kas1e/Irrlicht, which contain already all fixes, it can be pretty easy to build MorphOS version. With all the fixes which in the repo already, it should be really "quick" for MorphOS port too (through probably TinyGL will bring limitations of course, but as it was always faster than MiniGL, then it can be kind of ok in some parts .. but no shaders, etc, something will just not works).

But then, if you don't plan to make a game over it, then there is not much REALLY polished open-sourced games. HCraft, SuperTuxKart & Minetest (Minecraft clone). There is also some IrrLamb game, but that one not that polished that worth of porting.
Night Of The Zombies I just by some luck got the closed-sources from the author.

When it comes to closed-source games used Irrlicht, there are many, very well polished, quality, and stuff. But no source code :) Sure its good to have some engine on Amiga-like, just we have no users anymore who will for real use it and make native os4/mos/aros games for.

I for myself doing that only of interest to improve gl4es/ogles2/warp3dnova and having just some things to learn. Not that its "hey, million games now coming!" :) So to have it for MorphOS will of no help to improve gaming experience much, but if anyone will in interest to spend time on, my branch on GitHub can be used easily.


[ Edited by kas1e 03.01.2020 - 12:53 ]

@kas1e - Thanks for sharing!