[gameprogrammer] Re: [gameprogrammer]

[Matthew Weigel <unique@idempot.net>]

®£$ǖ"v@M$Ħ ¢© $. wrote:
> I have a question which i had asked a long time ago but failed to 
> receive a reply.... Well here it is:
>
> Why would any one use C++ instead of a game engine.... To make a sphere 
> in a game engine you can just write CreateSphere or somehting like 
> that... But in C++ we would have to write hundreds  of lines of 
> code....????

If you've got a small team, most games you try to make won't push the envelope 
of what existing engines can do on existing hardware (PC or console), so it 
makes sense to spend money on an engine rather than on the programmers to 
develop a custom engine.

On the other hand, if you're trying to push the envelope or advance the state 
of the art... chances are you will have to do more with that portion of the 
game (AI, maybe, or graphics, or plot, or whatever) than what engines will let 
you do.

And of course, you might not be aware that with many engines, you don't have 
to choose between "using the engine" and "using C++" - Gamebryo, Unreal Tech, 
and id Tech are all examples of engines you can buy that let you hack on their 
code rather than or in addition to using a scripting language on top.

Now, can you stop asking this question every few weeks?  You got plenty of 
replies the last time you asked 
(http://www.gameprogrammer.com/archive/html/thrd316.html).  You're not going 
to get different answers three weeks later from the same list.  If you don't 
like the answers or think they're wrong... well, they're the reasons *other 
people* have chosen to use C++.  You're not going to convince other people to 
abandon C++ because of how easy CreateSphere might be, but we're not trying to 
convince you that you *have* to use C++, either.
--
 Matthew Weigel
 hacker
 unique & idempot.ent

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