Direct X 10/11 Question - Answer (Translated)

[Fear]

DirectX 11 support is coming AFTER 2.0 hits, thats good enough for me.

[Jinko]

I'm gunna go find the oldest thread on the forums and bump it -.-

[kazaran]

Fro mthe Devloeprs forum, they are usign the base engine of luminous to rework FFXIV. However all key aspects of the engine are not fully ready to convert current game data over to utilize Direct x 11. The core is made for it, but a lot has be be reworked. THe core can also use opengl, which is what will be the PS3 version, but some aspects of Direct x will be missing from the console port. As the engine is further modified so will FFXIV

It going to take time. THere will be big changes in 2.0 and bigger changes over time.

[Soukyuu]

I've been thinking... SE is a console-oriented company and they obviously have openGL experience from programming for the PS3 (PS2, too? idk). So WHY are they forcing themselves to write the game in directX? openGL can do the same things DX does, and from what I saw, DX is more backwards than openGL, imho.

[Fear]

I've been thinking... SE is a console-oriented company and they obviously have openGL experience from programming for the PS3 (PS2, too? idk). So WHY are they forcing themselves to write the game in directX? openGL can do the same things DX does, and from what I saw, DX is more backwards than openGL, imho.

As far as I understand OpenGL is harder to program for if the hardware will vary alot, for PS3 its no prob because all PS3s are the same, but for PCs DirectX is much easier (and updated more) for a bigger variety of hardware

[Soukyuu]

As far as I understand OpenGL is harder to program for if the hardware will vary alot, for PS3 its no prob because all PS3s are the same, but for PCs DirectX is much easier (and updated more) for a bigger variety of hardware

Isn't it all the same though? all you need is a special openGL version, just like you need DX9 for most games, and any card on the market that is powerful enough has this version. openGL shouldn't be different in that aspect.

[Rydin]

DirectX is easier in a weird kind of way....
OpenGL is open source, but many of the extensions are patented, and many advanced features are not so standard

DirectX also gives the developer direct control of allocating resources to the hardware... So you have the "potential" to make your game more efficient with DirectX, although that potential was obviously not realized at the launch of this game.

[Dawiichan]

The change from DirectX 10 from 9 is already a huge difference. I'm kind of soaked to see how the game will change when the game right now already looks beautiful. Specially since the variation of terrain in 2.0 is very different.

[Rydin]

The change from DirectX 10 from 9 is already a huge difference. I'm kind of soaked to see how the game will change when the game right now already looks beautiful. Specially since the variation of terrain in 2.0 is very different.

It should be noted that DX10 and DX1 give the developers the opportunity to make the game look better and be more efficient.... but all of that still hinges on the programmers and the engine

For instance, DX10 gives them the ability to use shader model 4.0 which allows for a higher number of pixel shader instructions
DX10 also uses texture arrays which use the efficiency of the GPU as opposed to CPU for texture swapping
All of that can make your game look better and it can make your game run more efficiently... but that doesn't necessarily mean it will