2d Acceleration

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H&K (Posted 2006) [#1]

Its my understanding that max2d whilst a 2dEngine, is 3d accelerated. (And I understand why) Is there though a 2d accelerated engine? There was a thread a while ago that mentioned it, I think, but I cannot find the one Im thinking of. If there isnt, could someone tell me a good 2d accelerated DLL, and how to make it useable in Bmax. ie Tutorial to do it

Dreamora (Posted 2006) [#2]

No, not natively (not optimal and "fast enough" for the desired effects like alpha and scaling/rotating with filtering) But there is a SDL module (full / partial ... don't know), which was created by Neol if I remember correctly.

TartanTangerine (was Indiepath) (Posted 2006) [#3]

I recently released a 2D module for BMAX that emulates the 3D API (via DX7). It works on non-3d cards and provides 3D acceleration if a 3d card is detected. It's also cross platform since Mac support of hardware and software OpenGL is very good.. You can find it (for the moment) on http://modules.indiepath.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40 And yes you can do Alpha, rotation and scaling at very fast speeds.