1. Exotica?
- Posted by RedDan11 at AOL.COM
Mar 05, 2001
I have heard about Exotica and saw it on the site. What exactly is it? It
sounded like it had something to do with DirectX.
-Dan
2. Re: Exotica?
> I have heard about Exotica and saw it on the site. What exactly is it?
It
> sounded like it had something to do with DirectX.
>
Exactly..
It's an API for simpler DirectX coding. It's very good too. Check it out..
BTW.. for those who are interested.. I've been playing with Exotica
recently, and I have a sample demo I made, to demonstrate a general lib I
made that loads ASC 3D text files. I loaded up Mic's Teapot mesh from his
EUGL wrapper, and exotica runs it about 4 times as fast, maybe more..
I say 'general' lib, because theres no exotica specific code in it. Meaning,
you could use it to load ASC mesh objects to whatever API you choose.
Can't really give you specs, but MTS would be interested to know, On my
puter, it runs at 40 - 55 FPS, displaying 1200+ Faces with lighting, and
textures. My puter is a PIII 500Mhz, without 3D support. If you have a 3D
card, you should be able to get the same performance from a PII 266Mhz.
And he says euphoria isn't fast enough for 3D....
Chris
