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| Hey everyone, I'm new and excited to be here. Unfortunatly, after playing with this engine and pouring over the source code, there's so much stuff in here I'm overwelmed. First off, I'm a 2d guy. I want mostly to create 2d games, with a dash of 3d here and there. I was wondering if this engine has any good 2d capabilities, and which library they might be in. I know there's "CD 4.4" which seems to be a native GDI interface which sounds slow to me. There seems to be some direct 2d usage of opengl, which sounds good. But then I get more confused. What librarys can work with what librarys? Can I mix some CD 4.4 with opengl, mabye display a 3d model and still use one or more of the GUI's on the same screen? If anyone has an example of some 2d stuff that they sould share, I'd love a chance to look over it. I just need a starting place - which brings me to my next stupid question. I've searched for "main(" and "WinMain(" in all files and I can't seem to find the entry point for the script engine. And since borland's free compiler doesm't include a debugger, I'm lost! Also, is there an example I've missed showing how to use the Apocalyx library in raw C without scripting?
Sorry to sound so dumb here! I am a pretty decent C++ programmer, I'm just Completly lost and overwelmed by this thing - I have no clue where to start. Except to use Lua and the scropt engine. Any examples, links to some docs or advice whould be much appreciated. I didn't learn too much from the flag in the wind examples. I just wanna toy with a simple 2d pong or tetris style game.
Thanks in advance. Awesome engine BTW!
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Location: Imperia, ITALY | This engine has very poor 2D capabilities. It is devoted to 3D, so you'd better to try other 2D engines, if you are only interested in 2D. Moreover a user should not use the C++ sources, because all the important features are available to Lua scripts.
To get started there are the 14 packages full of demos and they seem enough to me to grab an idea on how the engine works 
I discovered this message only casually:
Please, use the new forums because these ones are no more mantained.
http://apps.sourceforge.net/phpbb/apocalyx/index.php |
I'm new and overwelmed...!
