An unusual Pi/Tri update

Pi/Tri on LinuxWhat’s this? Pi/Tri on Linux? Cross platform functionality?

I use Ubuntu Linux as my primary OS at home, and it’s where I have my creative tools: Blender (for 3D modeling), Inkscape (for 2D vector images), and GIMP (for 2D bitmap images). Now joining them is MonoDevelop, allowing me to do my C# programming right along with everything else. No more switching to Windows 7 to run Visual Studio. In a few days I was able to port my rendering code from SlimDX/Direct3D to OpenTK/OpenGL. (The OpenTK library is the OpenGL equivalent of SlimDX for my purposes). Probably some new bugs and tweaks to work out, but so far the game and editor seem to be running all right. I’ll also need to eventually re-port the engine back to Windows, but no rush to do that at the moment…

I tried this porting operation some time ago without success. Luckily MonoDevelop and OpenTK matured a bit since then, and hopefully they will do the job well.

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