Information on SuperTuxKart computer graphics

[zequinha]

Hi folks,

I would like to know which version of openGL is supertuxkart currently using?

Does anyone know of a good source of documentation for the new Antartica game engine?

[GeekPenguinBR]

AFAIK, Supertuxkart requires OpenGL 3.1 or more recent. Maybe this is the documentation you need. Look:
http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/dox ... phics.html

[zequinha]

Thanks! And about the antartica game engine? What info is out there?

[MTres19]

There's https://supertuxkart.net/Antarctica:_Overview and https://supertuxkart.net/Antarctica:_Technical_Details.

There are some other pages too. They're listed near the top of this page: https://supertuxkart.net/Special:AllPages

Actually, I think Antarctica uses OpenGL 3.3, but it requests an OpenGL 4.3 context if it's available for compute shaders.

However, Antarctica is tightly integrated with STK and Irrlicht. It's not really a full game engine, just a new graphical pipeline for Irrlicht and the old OpenGL 2.1-based renderer is still available if you disable advanced pipeline in the graphical options (effects level 2 or lower).

You might be interested in the work Eldermé's doing here.

[QwertyChouskie]

... and the old OpenGL 2.1-based renderer is still available if you disable advanced pipeline in the graphical options (effects level 2 or lower).

AFAIK, STK with the Advanced Pipeline disabled still uses OpenGL 3.x+. If you want to use the legacy renderer, you have to change "force_legacy_device" in the config file to true.

[MTres19]

Okay, didn't know that. Thanks.

[QwertyChouskie]

BTW, if you use the legacy renderer, expect some issues, e.g. broken transparency, see https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code/issues/2488