People… sorry for this answer, but I have to exprees what I’m feeling now…
I’m very disappointed with OpenGL…
I know that I have a old computer (Duron 950, 128MB and 4MB video card), but I thought OpenGL could do more than only run application in newer 3D video-cards…
I done my father spend mutch money with OpenGL Programming Book and OpenGL Reference Guide. Maybe In the US it’s cheapper… But I live in Brazil… Here, a book costs R$ 160, and the Minimun Wage is R$ 180. For most people, a book costs a 1 month work.
I had to bag many times for my father…
I fight with a lot of peoples to be here today, trying to Learn OpenGL…
I’m seventeen, I have five years of experience in Software Development, and I always dream, and always worked to one day, construct a good game. A good game seems that it will have good graphics, good history, good playability, etc and a good engine, that allow people to run in any PC, indeppendent if it have or don’t have a 3D recent video-card.
I remember my Pentium 200, 40MB and 2MB video-memory, it used to run Quake2 in 640x480 in a very high speed… I know it’s a 256 color game based, but, today, with a PC fourt times more faster than my old PC, I can’t run just a OpenGL Example, that put on the screen just some images…
I’m very sad with this kind of thing…
I don’t know what I’m going to do…
When I started to Learn OpenGL, i thought that I could make a good game on it…
But today I see that OpenGL don’t have a good support to SOFTWARE mode.
Does it seems that I spended money, I fighted with my father, with my mother, I left my work, left my life and friends for nothing???
Sorry for this guys…
I’ll take a rest now, think about my life, and what I’m going to do with OpenGL.
sorry and thank you for hearing me