OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 16/05/2014 1:38 a.m., Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 15 May 2014 23:24, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
> <digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On 16/05/2014 12:07 a.m., Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>>>
>>> On 15 May 2014 16:30, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
>>> <digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 15/05/2014 5:01 p.m., Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to gather support for a community game project (FeedBack).
>>>>> Lots of interest, but nobody actually joined the party when I kicked
>>>>> it off.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yeah I was one of those people who wanted to work on it. Unfortunately
>>>> that
>>>> was while I was working on DOOGLE and pre aurora commencing. That to me
>>>> really killed my enthusiasm.
>>>>
>>>> Personally I'm waiting for aurora before starting up on the GUI front.
>>>
>>>
>>> What's doogle and aurora? And why did that kill enthusiasm?
>>
>> DOOGLE[0] was my attempt at a gui toolkit. And aurora is this[1].
>> I would have replied earlier but it appears that there has been enough
>> changes with dub and dmd that it just won't. But I managed to grab an old
>> build and here is its output [2].
>> Not really that nice but hey, was my go at it.
>>
>> I was building it as pretty much the all in one toolbox for D and OpenGL and
>> with Aurora getting more support, the issues I was having continuing just
>> kinda was the last straw.
>> And anyways I'm better at web development then game dev. Never really
>> understood the 3d pipeline.
>
> Those aurora repos appear to be empty :/
> Is aurora intended to be a GUI toolkit?
Only DirectX has code so far from what I've heard and seen.

> I still think there's huge need for a realtime gfx environment GUI toolkit.
I'm completely on board with that, but I really don't have the skills 
for it. But hey we also need a web service framework aimed at enterprise 
in D and that's my target work now days.

> But if I were you, I wouldn't be marrying it to any particular gfx
> API. Just make sure to structure the API to allow backends (like
> OpenGL) to be plugged in.
It was designed to be completely independent of any 3d api. In theory 
you could have a different implementation of controls to a window.
But I never bothered going there considering.
In fact I had plans to make it like GWT does as another backend and 
hooking it up to Vibe.

>> [0] https://github.com/rikkimax/DOOGLE
>> [1] https://github.com/auroragraphics
>> [2]
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-EiBquZktsLcGtMSmtMS1ZoZHM/edit?usp=sharing