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Engines?

Started by hairycoconuts Dec 6, 2001 at 1:10 PM 1 reply 550+ views

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Dec 6, 2001 at 1:10 PM

I am fairly new on the programming side and openGL. (14 just) I was just curious to what people meant by using their own engines. WHAT ARE THEY? WHAT DO THEY DO? If you could help me out here i would be extreamly grateful! Thankz alot. Hairycoconuts ----------------------- This space is for sale -----------------------

Fox Mc Cloud

Dec 6, 2001 at 1:16 PM

An engine is simply the program that displays and runs the graphics display (and/or the sounds, physics etc...), as opposed to the data that you give to the engine. Engine + data = a game or demo.
So basically, the engine is the part of the program that handles rendering etc...
Making your own engine means not using a pre-built rendering engine, like Id software sells their Quake3 engine, then you just have to modify some things but the engine is here.

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mittens

Dec 6, 2001 at 1:35 PM

A friend and I are working on an Engine Design and Implementation series. The first article should appear in a month or so (on Gamedev).

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