Hikaru79 wrote: Graphics engines make your life easier. They keep you from reinventing the wheel by providing a framework of API's to do things that are pretty universal. For example, if you're coding a 3D game, you shouldn't have to deal with calculating perspective of distant objects, etc. Its a law of physics, it will never change, and its something that every app needs. It would be extremely wasteful for every single programmer to have to come up with an algorithm for determining an object's perceived size at a distance. So that's where the 3D engine comes in. When you use an instance of one, you specify, for example, the DISTANCE to the object, and the SIZE of the object, and the engine can figure out how large it needs to be drawn. This is a basic example, but you get the idea.
Make sure you're quite well-versed in your language of choice before you tackle anything like this though.
exactly.3d engines calculate things for u as they have a physics engine built into it.like for instance when i started learning maya i madea an animation clip of a cloth falling over a square box..u just define the path, collision object and how many frames u want the animation to be and it will calculate the whole thing frame by frame(hence the name frame by frame animation) and then when its done it will show u what it will look like in real life..once u texture it and add lights and such u can make an animation of a cloth falling over a table and how the light will react to its different parts and such |
