NaaLaa VS RCBasic

[johnno56]

If you want high performance, RCBasic is a way better choice than naalaa. It uses hardware accelerated graphics for both 2d and 3d stuff. Naalaa uses software rendering only, simply because that's a really big interest of mine. As far as I know, RCBasic also comes with 2D and 3D physics engines, which should make things a lot easier.


There really seems to be no point at all in using naalaa, but I'll do so anyway

If you add the support for dynamic link library to future versions of NaaLaa, NaaLaa will become a very flexible software. Users will be able to use various game libraries! Such as Raylib. Raylib supports hardware accelerated 3D game. 

Perhaps a lot of new users will join this forum.   

Please consider!

These are "my" opinions based on my observations and limited experience with Naalaa...

I am curious. What kind of 3D games do you think Naalaa can handle? Simple ray caster games, like Wolfenstien 3D, can run quite well. Games like the old DOS versions of Doom may be a bit of a push but probably might work. Anything above that would probably require hardware accelerated rendering. That is something Naalaa just cannot do. You have to remember that, programs like Naalaa, are primarily suited for 2D games. It does that very well. Naalaa is probably designed for hobbyists. If you want a proper 3D game designed, then may I suggest game engines like, Godot, GDevelop, Construct3 or even Unity or Unreal. Adding all those libraries etc will not turn Naalaa into something that will create games that only engines can build.

A true developer will work within the limitations of the tools that are used.

J