I want to start my own graphics engine thing and make it in C++, but so far I haven’t been able to put a pixel on the screen… I can do the programming of the game, it’s just putting a damn pixel on the screen! What does it take?
use some graphics through c and c++ book.i have one.never touched it though. 
http://www.peroxide.dk/tuts_c.shtml
Chek out that address. It’s the main site of the group wich was making Ultima 1 remake, but all in all, they have some tutorial on c++ engine coding.
Hope this helps.
Take a look at DirectX and OpenGL. They have similar functionality when graphics is concerned, but they have different styles. I prefer OpenGL.
Oh, as an afterthought, does anyone here know pascal and is it better than C++ for graphics?
I know it and C++ is much better. No question.
pascal is just an early predecessor of c++, in a way.
If I understand my CSCI history properly, Pascal was developed by academia as a teaching language, to teach the fundamentals of structured programming. This doesn’t mean it’s no good to use, I’ve known several outstanding programs programmed with Borland Delphi (which I believe uses an OOP Pascal, Pascal+?). The main difference (I think) is that Pascal is a bit more wordy, while C++ is more functional… I think you can do the same thing in both, but C++ would require less typing to do the same thing. Of course, I’ve never used Pascal, so I’m just basing these assumptions on what I’ve heard.
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I’ve used pascal (the Delphi version with classes, Object Pascal), and it is more wordy. You use words like “begin” and “end;” instead of brackets and other operators.
Yeah that’s right, but I don’t think that delphi isn’t that powerful as c++…actually the visual c++ compiler and the delphi compiler are both based on the same compiler-“back end”.
While exe files compiled with delphi are a little larger than the c++ ones, the delphi compilation time is much lower…and the runtime speed is nearly the same (it depends MUCH more on your code than on the compiler)
Object Pascal uses a lot of concepts from c++, but they are transfered in a clearer and easier way (e.g. the “as” operator…)
In my opinion delphi acts on a more abstract level…but this makes it easier to concentrate on the actual task so that you don’t have to think so much about how to solve a certain problem.
C++ is such an extensive language that probably no programmer will be able to affirm that he knows everything of C++ without lying.
There a lot of other reasons for Delphi and C++, but it’s probably just a question of liking…
So that you don’t get a wrong opinion about Delphi…it’s also a very powerful language! 
Delphi’s really not for games. It’s mainly a database application development tool. It also has MANY different client/server protocals built in.
You really can’t compare Delphi and C++. I still prefer the language of C++ to Object Pascal any day.
I just wanted to show that Delphi is also a powerful language like C++ (because I’ve made the experience that C++ programmers tend to look down on programmers using other languages 
…of course there are also a lot of nice C++ programmers… )
Someone who prefers Delphi at the moment
I just wanted to show that Delphi is also a powerful language like C++ (because I’ve made the experience that C++ programmers tend to look down on programmers using other languages …of course there are also a lot of nice C++ programmers… )
Someone who prefers Delphi at the moment ;)[/quote]
I like Delphi when I’m making things for people who prefer a GUI. It’s much faster, and the EXE is small and fast.
Those C++ programmers who look down on everyone else are just 1337 h4xx0rz.
Though I must admit. I HATE JAVA.
lol You’re not the only one…
I don’t mind Java. It just comes naturally to me.
and java has a 3d thing too
(though they say it is a lot like vrml, and it IS slow on most systems)
but onto the topic again, a useful 3d engine would be a lot of work, and would probably have to be limited to a genere to aide completion.
(I would never finish one because I would make it too extendable without a specific genere)