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MIT Licensed Open Source version of Torque 3D from GarageGames
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[Feature Request] UWP support for Xbox Creator Program #1985

Open HeadClot opened 7 years ago

HeadClot commented 7 years ago

Got a bit of a feature request, Would it be possible to add the Universal Windows Platform as a target platform?

Why I am asking - Microsoft recently announced the Xbox Creators Program. This program will take advantage of their UWP ecosystem that they are trying to build.

Areloch commented 7 years ago

UWP is definitely interesting and worth some looking into, I think, but it's still fairly new, so we probably won't rush it immediately. But definitely worth keeping an eye on to see how support for it develops!

HeadClot commented 7 years ago

Hey, Just thought I would chime in on this again since there have been some new developments regarding the Xbox one and its system resources. Link

UWP apps and games now get six dedicated cores. UWP Apps and games now have six GB of ram. UWP apps also have full access to the GPU of the system.

This will come with the fall update to Xbox.

They have also launched the Xbox Live creators program. Link.

VinnyVicious commented 6 years ago

What is the current rendering engine behind T3D? D3D12? Or D3D11?

JeffProgrammer commented 6 years ago

D3D11 and OpenGL 3.2 currently