As lately nearly everyone seems to use Windows 7 and seems to have Hardware supporting DirectX 11 features, I would actually really love to see gamestudio to take the step to an additional renderer using D3D 11.

For most users it should not really change anything and those that want, could go crazy with stuff like geometry shaders and tesselation and just do some really advanced techdemos or whatever comes out of such experiments.
And at least at the moment, it could still be possible to get it done before Unity or Torque do.

Last time I read such a post here, I laught and thought what an idiot is posting such bullshit. But to me it now seems to be a good time to bring it up again, especially as you are moving away from DirectPlay and DirectAudio (or whatever it is called), which should finally make this switch not THAT much work.


And some question:
Is there a way to assign a material created at runtime to level geometry? If not, this is another feature request .

Thanks

The biggest benefit would be the promotion you can do with DX11 support.

I think that for conitec, mobile platforms like android have higher priority at the moment (which is also great!).

It's very unlikely to have an Android port (jcl has mentioned that serveral times before), because it's no DirectX based plattform....

Where did you get that?
Quotes by jcl:

While I of course wouldn´t mind gamestudio to support mobile devices, I would currently just use Unity for this (at least if I hadn´t my own engine :P) and I somehow doubt that gamestudio will be able to seriously compete there...

Engine is slowly getting rid of platform dependent libraries though. First DirectPlay and now the sound engine. The next main thing is the graphics renderer, mobile platforms would require an opengl es renderer.

Does Acknex even support DX10? Am asking because I don't miss any specific DX11 feature (though tesselation and bokeh would be cool), but some of the DX10 capacities. But as those come hand in hand with DX11 compatibility, I support Slins request.

dx10 is pretty much unfinished version of dx11.

like vista being unfinished version of 7

@Quad: If i remember back..how long they used DX9 compared to DX10 o.O. Had a "bad" feeling about DX10 when they suddenly announced DX11.