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- URL: https://x.com/simplex_fx/status/1890348863287943363
- Author: Simplex (@simplex_fx)
- Posted: 2025-02-14 10:34:24
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1/ @simplex_fx
Hey, gpu guys like @SebAaltonen @NOTimothyLottes why do rendering guys usually wrap 3d apis at low level in engines, creating some generic mid-low level API?
My 3d engine have a few super high level functions for stuff I actually do, and the rest is totally up to platform/api specific code.
Unless you go with some super generic game engine (bad idea on it’s own anyway), 3d engine should be also just specific to the use case.
Branches: 2025-02-14-count_mascetti-every-time-i-abstract-at-a-higher-level-i-end-up, 2025-02-14-SebAaltonen-i-briefly-discussed-this-topic-in-my-siggraph, 2025-02-14-matiasgoldberg-you-can-do-whatever-you-want-the-api-just-because, 2025-02-14-NOTimothyLottes-yeah-its-a-common-problem-thin-wrapper-interfaces, 2025-02-15-RyDawgE256-i-dont-disagree-but-the-reason-is-that-99-of, 2025-02-15-matthewcraig42-usually-the-key-benefit-is-two-fold-making-the, 2025-02-15-pagedeux-the-render-pipeline-is-basically-a-full-piece-of, 2025-02-15-vanderschnarzen-i-have-exactly-that-my-abstraction-is-basically
2/ @songohab
@simplex_fx @SebAaltonen @NOTimothyLottes
Exactly the question I was asking myself lol. Always felt like 3D apis SHOULD be specific. But I’m just a noob