Re: INFO.

[Pierre Phaneuf <pp@ludusdesign.com>]

Steve Baker wrote:

> Assuming you have hardware 3D accelleration, an OpenGL (Mesa)
> 'sprite' engine can be spectacularly fast with arbitary angle
> rotation effects and scaling costing *nothing*.
> 
> You should also be able to have larger sprites than with
> a software-only sprite engine because the 3D hardware can
> push polygons MUCH faster than the main CPU - even with
> translucent blending and such like.

If those operations would be fast enough without 3D hardware, I'd do all
of my 2D and 3D work with OpenGL! :-)

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