Developpers, do you plan to...

[legluondunet]

Hello ScummVM developpers,

I'm just curious to know if you plan to add this features to ScummVM:

- SDL2?
- Vulkan?
- UTF-8?

Thanks for your answers.

[sev]

SDL2 – yes, we already have it working.
UTF-8 – depends on the area. Some engines like Wintermute already support it. For GUI, probably, but not soon. For filesystems – hardly, as it is not portable enough.
Vulkan – do you mean 3D API from Nvidia? Then no, it is out of scope of ScummVM.


Eugene

[legluondunet]

SDL2 – yes, we already have it working.

So how could I compile ScummVM with SDL2 enabled on linux?
Will I see a difference?

UTF-8 – depends on the area. Some engines like Wintermute already support it. For GUI, probably, but not soon.

Yes I talked about the GUI.

Vulkan – do you mean 3D API from Nvidia? Then no, it is out of scope of ScummVM.

Vulkan is not a 3D Api from Nvidia, it is:

- a opengl replacement with higher performance
- multiplatform API (PC, mobile...)
- it is a DirectX12 equivalent for all OS

More info here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_%28API%29

[sev]

So how could I compile ScummVM with SDL2 enabled on linux?

Specify SDL_CONFIG environment variable to path to your sdl2-config

Will I see a difference?

Not really.

UTF-8 – depends on the area. Some engines like Wintermute already support it. For GUI, probably, but not soon.

Yes I talked about the GUI.

Why do you need it? Currently we support per-language code pages.

Vulkan is not a 3D Api from Nvidia, it is:

- a opengl replacement with higher performance
- multiplatform API (PC, mobile...)
- it is a DirectX12 equivalent for all OS

Not all OSes. Windows/Linux and Android is much less multiplatform than the plain OpenGL. We are not using any fancy features, no 3D. So why should we support yet-another-3D-graphics-API? What are the advantages?


Eugene