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General discussions / Question on donations

« on: May 07, 2014, 05:58:56 pm »

I wanted to ask how donations for SFML are used. I've read that some projects get funds but never use it because they don't what to do with it.

Do the devs get paid? Is it just for keeping the site running? Is it used for new hardware?

Mainly curious because I want make sure that if I donate to the project, that my donation is actually helpful.

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General discussions / Questions by a newbie

« on: May 05, 2014, 08:13:27 pm »

I have some questions about SFML that I can't seem to find answers to. I'll start by explaining what I want to do first, maybe that will help put things in context.

I've been doing some game dev on and off for a few years. Nothing finished yet, but all my work has been 3D with OpenGL. I've decided that my next venture will be into a 2D isometric graphics style. I also want to use Sprite Lamp once it's released on Linux.

So here are my questions.

• SFML can do 2D out of the box, correct?
• Is SFML hardware accelerated by default, even with 2D?
• Is the community pretty active?
• Is the documentation complete?
• Is SFML pretty easy to learn?

Here is what I've used in the past.
Unity (when I used Windows)
GLFW (writing everything from scratch)
C4 engine
I use C++ on a daily basis and know OpenGL (3.2 core profile and up) but I'm no wizard at it.
I only use Linux.

I'm also looking to pickup the SFML book that came out awhile ago to get started.