graphics libraries

[jw6XoG1T]

what graphic libraries do u guys think would be good for starting game programming?

also....any good books u would suggest?

[acorn]

SFML looks good to me so far. you can get something up on the screen fast from the examples ive seen.

http://www.sfml-dev.org/features.php

[jw6XoG1T]

i tried it but it didnt work. i set it up perfectly but when i ran the program the image didnt show up. it was just a black screen

[acorn]

hmm. i havent played with it myself. just looked at some quick code samples. are you sure the image is on the correct path. it just sounds like it didnt find the image or the image was invalid.

[Return 0]

Your options for 2d are SDL, SFML and Allegro.

paki programmer wrote:

i tried it but it didnt work. i set it up perfectly but when i ran the program the image didnt show up. it was just a black screen

Don't give up so easily.

[jw6XoG1T]

well i put the pic file in different places to try and make it work but it still couldnt find it.

i think ill just lean towards SDL.....and then on to openGL