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Having only ever made OpenGL applications, I feel a transition to DirectX may be in order

Yeah, so your code can only run on Windows. That's clearly the future. You should trust Microsoft, the company with the most vision.

Yeah, I'd be open to trying an alternative to GL, but darn it, I just can't seem to get D3D to install on Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android...

If Microsoft has the best API, you should develop exclusively or preferentially on Microsoft platforms.

Autodesk's entire product line migrated to a D3D-only rendering pipeline. Why? Because D3D is the superior API.

Do you have any info on "Autodesk's entire product line" migrating to D3D-only?

I know many of Autodesk apps run in Linux, Mac OSX, Windows and iOS--so I'm curious. The only reference I can find is a long reply from an Autodesk Inventor developer [1] from what looks like around 2007 where OpenGL was removed form their Windows-only app (Autodesk Inventor). It sounded like his beef was with the sub-par driver support for the OpenGL spec amongst video cards and not with the API itself (which I appreciate as an issue, but is very different from this discussion about it being a poorer API).

[1] http://forums.autodesk.com/autodesk/attachments/autodesk/78/...

This is totally false.

In terms of 3D graphics, gaming, and visualization? Microsoft definitely doesn't have the least vision there.

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