Any available 3d/game engines for Microsoft Smartphone?

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Chua Wen Ching

Hi there,

I am wondering is there any available 3d or game engines
(free is better) for Microsoft Smartphone (compliant with
pocket pc 2003)?

Any help, please?

I want to learn how to create a 3d engine for smartphone!

Thanks.

Regards,
Chua Wen Ching :p
 
Hi Chua,

I suppose it depends on what you mean by "compliant with pocket pc 2003" but
you can take a look at these:

http://www.intuitex.com/gapidraw.html
http://www.gapidraw.com/
http://sharptoolbox.madgeek.com/Pages/Tool.aspx?Tool=c91db5fb-03e3-4340-8a71-6ef154235c94

You can also start with the game api (gapi), create your own .NET Compact
Framework compliant wrapper DLL (in EVC) and then write as much of your
graphics engine as possible in managed code. Note that you will need to use
unsafe code blocks to access the pointer to video memory and cast it to the
proper pixel formats,etc. Gapi is here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...28-7071-4979-8a67-3cffcb0c2524&displaylang=en

I would recommend the latter simply because you want to minimize the number
of P/Invoke calls you do in a single draw frame and using something like
gapidraw.net is going to have to P/Invoke every draw call. Writing your own
library, you could limit P/Invokes to your BeginDraw and EndDraw frames and
do the rest of the work in managed code.

--
Geoff Schwab
Program Manager
Excell Data Corporation
http://msdn.com/mobility

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