Re: [AD] shaders + ttf

[SiegeLord <slabode@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/09/2013 07:58 PM, Peter Wang wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:26:10 -0500, SiegeLord <slabode@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 03/08/2013 06:14 PM, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > Ok, I've done it for OpenGL.
> > >
> > > Does someone want to take care of the D3D side?
> >
> > I'm curious, why did you decide to write platform specific code for this
> > instead of the shader api?
>
> I was thinking if we resurrected the Cg backend (or similar), that it
> would help if the GL display driver did not become too dependent on the
> GLSL backend.

It seems to me that if that were the reason then putting the shader code 
in the platform agnostic code would be logical.

> I didn't consider it very long, so which ever way works is fine.
> We can always change it.

I think, if you don't mind, I'll try using the shader API. I just looked 
at the prospect of doing the HLSL code and I felt like I'd just be 
reimplementing what the shader API already wrapped.

-SL