[lukeme99]

Hi,

How would you get a DirectX based game to work nativley on a mac? For example, CS:GO, that uses DirectX's full capabilities, but yet this game is still compatible on a mac, so how would you get this clearly mac-unfriendly app to work on a mac?

This question isnt something that would directly affect me, as my games programing is curently only Win based (mainly because of this ongoing GL vs DX debate)

Thanks,
L99

[ButchDean]

It's likely that on a Windows platform the code makes calls to a DirectX layer, but on the Mac calls are made to another layer that clearly can't be DirectX.

Google 'cross platform game development'.

This post has been edited by ButchDean: 10 October 2012 - 02:50 PM

[stayscrisp]

They could quite easily (and probably did) have a graphics renderer interface

class IGraphicsRenderer
{
public:
      virtual bool InitGraphics() = 0;
      virtual void RenderScene() = 0;
};

class DXRenderer extends IGraphicsRenderer
{
public:
     bool InitGraphics();
     void RenderScene();
};

class GLRenderer extends IGraphicsRenderer
{
public:
     bool InitGraphics();
     void RenderScene();
};

Then it's simply a case of creating the correct renderer at runtime (a config file) or compile time:

int main()
{
    IGraphicsRenderer* pRenderer = new GLRenderer();
    pRenderer->InitGraphics();

    while(running) // this doesn't care about the type
    {
          pRenderer->RenderScene();
    }
    return 0;
}

Of course this is a very rudimentary example, but you get the idea

[ButchDean]

Another option would be to write interface/wrapper code rather than the example you have given. In such a case you specify overrides externally to the game engine as part of a library.

(Edited to clarify.)

This post has been edited by ButchDean: 12 October 2012 - 05:36 PM