Scrolling Game Development Kit Forum

well, performance wise, it would be better to have sprites, but when you have close to 1000 sprites, file size becomes and issue, where as a model and the animations are under 5mb.

Hey, I'm a 3d animator/rigger, and can animated 3d models a lot better than making sprites. I'm not looking to create a game that is fps style/3d. I'm just looking to replace sprites with 3d models, and have the game still render in a 2d sidescrolling type way, kinda like new super mario bros wii. It isn't possible yet, but would that add a lot more complexity with the code? I'm working with dae format, with bones, textures and the body.

Thanks!

hey durnard. If you're having graphic acceleration issues, i'd suggest your run glxgears and check if direct rendering is on. If it's off, then it'll greatly reduce performance. I'm a user of ubuntu, but i'm a pretty sucky noob.

in general, how memory hungry are games made from sgdk2? is it as memory intensive as games made by Game Maker? i hope not, because games there are MEMORY HOGS! will sgdk2.1 still use .net framework?

wine doesn't support .NET.  Everything was running using mono and native Linux libraries.   Mono is required to run the executable just as the .NET framework would be required on a Windows platform.

Thanks for clearing it up. i thought it was just wine lol.

hey. I just had an idea. There is a linux c# compiler that has links to net 1-3, named Mono, so wouldn't you be able to use that, get sgdk2's sourcecode, and compile it there to make a native linux version. Also, wouldn't you be able to compile the actual game? doesn't sgdk2 output all the sourcecode to a file that's all c#? assuming you remove all directX dependencies from sgdk2 and games created from it.