Software renderer...

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Kolobrod
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Software renderer...

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Where i can find some info and tutorial on software rendering for windows, but without Direct3D OpenGL and other libs such as SDL
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Post by Peggus »

Look at old 3d/game programming books and tutorials, stuff from the dos area. You'll need to write your own rasterizing routines and the old techniques are still valid, one thing that has changed is that you no longer have to deal with colour lookup tables and quantification.

Only question is, why?
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Post by porl »

i have a feeling the irrlicht engine has a software renderer as well as directx/opengl ones... maybe that is worth a look?
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Post by bal »

Yeah, Irrlicht has a software renderer. Though it's slow as hell and most functions don't work (it can't handle much more than rendering a model and some GUI). But that's why it is a software renderer of course :wink:.
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