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Started by micon Jan 18, 2004 at 1:50 PM 14 replies 1.8k views

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Jan 18, 2004 at 1:50 PM

is there a library or graphics class for c#?, sdl, csgl and all thoes take to much time to set up, and i have a tight schedule for the game im working on. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

FreJa

Jan 18, 2004 at 1:58 PM

you can try managed directx... check http://msdn.microsoft.com

Imperil

Jan 18, 2004 at 1:59 PM

quote:
Original post by micon
is there a library or graphics class for c#?, sdl, csgl and all thoes take to much time to set up, and i have a tight schedule for the game im working on. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

Libraries:
Managed DirectX
TaoGL

Engines:
Axiom Engine (http://axiomengine.sourceforge.net/)
ExoEngine (http://www.exocortex.org/3dengine/)

micon

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micon

Jan 18, 2004 at 2:12 PM

thanks for the replies, dx9 still takes a bit to much time, i need something i dont need to write a bunch of base code and whatnot for. What is this TaoGL? i searched on google, but turned up nothing. Thanks again.

Ridge

Jan 18, 2004 at 2:18 PM

Tao.OpenGl is my OpenGL binding. You can find it on my site http://www.randyridge.com/Tao/Default.aspx. However my host has been having issues, I'll be moving the site the middle of next week. You may want to snag the dll's from Axiom's CVS since you may have trouble until the hosting situation is resolved. It's not entirely clear what you're attempting to do, however. I don't exactly understand what 'too much time to set up' infers. You can go from 0 to triangle in about 20 seconds with Tao and its SimpleOpenGlControl (see the tutorial on the page) though. Though I suspect with any of the others you mentioned you could do the same.

Ridge

[edited by - Ridge on January 18, 2004 3:19:38 PM]

zealouselixir

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zealouselixir

Jan 18, 2004 at 2:18 PM

~~Search for "Tao GL" rather than TaoGL. Seems to be a C# GL framework.~~

edit: obsoleted by the author by 11 seconds

[edited by - zealouselixir on January 18, 2004 3:19:47 PM]

micon

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micon

Jan 18, 2004 at 2:24 PM

Thanks,i found it. Except the downloads for the library doesnt work :-( but ill check back on it later.

Ridge

Jan 18, 2004 at 2:32 PM

Yeah, as I said hosting issues. I should be moving the site on Wednesday and hopefully the DNS entries will be updated by Friday. In the meantime I put the setup for the 1.1.0.0 version here: http://www.randyridge.com/Tao/Tao.Framework.Setup.msi and you should be able to get to that. Hopefully I''ll have a new version out sometime soon as well, was scheduled for the end of the month, but with the move it''ll probably be delayed somewhat. If you like you can build the latest yourself, the source is available at http://vaultpub.sourcegear.com.

micon

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micon

Jan 18, 2004 at 3:21 PM

awesome. thanks alot!

Imperil

Jan 18, 2004 at 4:05 PM

Tao.OpenGL is the only way you want to do OGL with C#, trust me.

The others are not bad, but Tao seems to be the best all around after looking at it and playing with it.

Either go Tao or MDX.

I don''t quite understand your "takes to long to set up DX basecode" theory, because setting up MDX in C# is about 10-15 lines =]

micon

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micon

Jan 19, 2004 at 11:04 AM

when i was working with tao.gl, for some reason the SimpleOgl control doesnt show up in the controls box. I tried to add it, but it still didnt show. Any ideas?

Ridge

Jan 19, 2004 at 8:09 PM

I would suspect you''re using Visual Studio .NET 2002? If so someone''s writing a tutorial on how to recompile the library under .NET 1.0 as I normally compile it under 1.1 and thus the references link to the 1.1 versions of UserControl and various other Windows Forms libraries, which the designer uses to load the control for display. I''ll see if I can get 2002 installed this week such that I can provide a 1.0 version of the library.

Bunnz

Jan 20, 2004 at 3:48 AM

Hi, you can also take a look at Purple#, which can be found here:
www.bunnz.com

Have fun,
Bunnz

[edited by - Bunnz on January 20, 2004 5:44:54 AM]

Sijmen

Jan 20, 2004 at 4:08 AM

SDL.NET: cs-sdl.sourceforge.net
Works in Linux and Windows if the original library is installed or supplied.

Tao.OpenGl
Works great in Linux+mono. Also needs the original library.

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I haven''t yet used Tao.OpenGl, but I do use SDL.NET for some time. The SDL.NET maintainer is talking about a possible merge with Tao (Tao.Sdl).

SDL.NET 1.5 is not yet full grown. SDL.NET 2 (or maybe Tao.Sdl 1) might become a very very good library!

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CL Game Studios. Probably.

Sijmen

Jan 20, 2004 at 4:09 AM

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