What can we do with the sourcecode?

[HoopyFrood]

Graphics are probably the least important aspect. Not only does Freelancer have awesome graphics for a game of its' age, even by today's standards (not top-of the line, but none the less), we also don't need stunning graphics to enjoy a solidly built game.

Also, graphics aren't programming. They're animation. There's three kinds of people in game development, animators, programmers and testers. Animators hate Programmers, because they want to make everything look pretty. Programmers hate Animators, because they just want to make the game work. But everyone hates testers.

Actually you graphics is both programming and art, but from my point of view its programming. I mean the artists sure as hell dont sit and do their graphics with something like this...

Code:

void CGameApp::OnRenderFrame( LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9 pDevice )
{
    pDevice->Clear( 0, 0, D3DCLEAR_TARGET, D3DCOLOR_XRGB( 0, 0, 200 ), 1.0f, 0 );
    pDevice->BeginScene();

    // Render scene here

    pDevice->EndScene();
    pDevice->Present( 0, 0, 0, 0 );
}

Thats what I specialize in ^^ that is the part of my base DirectX 9 framework, although saying that I still prefer openGL

And yes freelancer does still have very good graphics but when I play I notice many small areas where it slows down and I know that that's a bottleneck under the older API, and could easily be improved leading to prettier graphics and performance gains.

Quick edit: In game development its more usually programmer hating animators because they want to make it look a certain way when the studio has already been told no by the publisher but then still go and do it, and then we programmers fall behind when they have to go away and redo it, then we get really annoyed when they give it to us in the wrong format:Dbelieve me Ive experienced that one too many times. Oh and I don't hate the testers, no I hate the producers(Ie studio executives) they like to get half way thru a development cycle and go OHH I was reading that forum last night and thought it would be cool if we scrapped half the game we have right now and put in sharks with friggin laser beams in with pink hippos and ninjas flinging stars at you all the time.

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