Comments on: Haxe3D C++ Demo.

By: Huge

Huge — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:29:41 +0000

I have thought about iphone – there are a few issues that need to be sorted – especially for non-jail broken phones.
1. iPhone does not allow dso I think. This means that even if there was a SDL port, it may end up making the final app GPL, which is a bit sad.
I think it would not be toooo hard to write a freeware (as in free) library specifically for the iphone that supports the SDL functions required by NME.
It would also require a minor adjustment in the way modules are loaded – not a showstopper though.
2. It supports OpenGL ES, not OpenGL. I don’t think this would be too hard to work around.
3. iPhone and garbage collection is a grey area. I think that it still may be possible in one form or another.

There has been quite a bit of interest with other homebrew consoles – most of which have an SDL port so the scope of this may well expand in the near future.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:16:34 +0000

Awesome!

Have you considered having iPhone as a build target as well? I’m pretty certain that only a little bit of Objective-C would need to be written to achieve this.

Either way, this is a fantastic project. Thanks for releasing it for us all to use!

By: Jonathan Dunlap

Jonathan Dunlap — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:23:52 +0000

Awesome… I can’t wait for this project (hxcpp) to mature more!

By: Huge

Huge — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:08:32 +0000

I also got a stutter in the opengl mode on my older card (geforce 5200). The usage pattern does not really suit opengl – transferring the data to the GPU every frame. Maybe a texture is getting thrashed and the AGP bus is just not up for it. (Does it coincide with the stats graph getting updated? – I will have to check)
And maybe I should also multi-thread the software renderer (this should be reasonably easy).
Interesting point on the keyboard.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:33:56 +0000

On my Core 2 6400 I get ~50 FPS with OpenGL (with small lags 2-3 time per seconds) and a very smooth ~80 FPS using software renderer.

Both are faster than ~40 FPS Flash, but Flash looks better thanks to antialiasing.

BTW French keyboard does not work well, since “Z” key produces “W” instead.