Orkin's OpenGL Plugin

After studying docs and source code, talking to Dave2001 on IRC, and studying more docs and code, and debuging for an hour only to find I had transposed the U and V coordinates in my struct, I've finally gotten textures to start to show up! It's nowhere near complete (only supports 16-bit textures, no caching, no transparency, no clamping...you get the idea...), but it's a start.

I'm not going to bother releasing until I get it further along, but for now, here's a shot of my progress:

And another:

Thanks Eikef7, I've been looking for that! :colgate: I could only find pictures of the dorky looking new one...

For the questions:
Yes, I am using a GeForce card, but if people report problems with other video cards, I'll try to get it as good as I can (compatibility is one of my goals).

I'm 18, and have been programming since I was...I think about 8 (just piddly little basic programs, but it was still programming). I learned C++ when I was about 13, and I've been playing around with 3D graphics since I was 15 (nothing very serious, just, as I said, playing around). I've always liked programming, but it's really just been a side thing for me; I'm attending classes at UA Fort Smith for networking right now (getting an AAS in networking this summer).

Anyway, enough about me. Back to the plugin:
Unfortunately between work and school I haven't had alot of time to work on it lately, but I did manage to get some of the rendering modes working that help the textures look better (clamping, z-buffer decal mode...etc.). The two things that I'm working on next are palettized textures and texture caching. I'll probably make another release once I get those going (I'd release now, but without texture caching it crawls).

Orkin

what are your plans for this plugin ? keeping it closed source ?

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My plans are to make it as good as possible. :colgate:

I am planning on eventually going open source, but if anybody saw my code in it's current state, they'd probably laugh... lain: