Granular Design...

Since BRL decide to release B3DSDK, why you need to carry a 1MB DLL for some function you don't need, I really think the design like "use what you need" can reduce the size well, for example:

b3d_render.dll
b3d_input.dll
b3d_mixer.dll
b3d_network.dll

And to be honest... strip the MD2/BSP support as external lib should be better as there'll be issue if user really used those functions.

Personally I thinks this is a stupid suggestion and'll be flammed, I just want to say something and I'll shup up now :|

1. Not a stupid suggestion

2. I guess it would probably be too much work splitting up those functions into many DLLs

3. Most people probably don't want 4-10 DLLs in their directory I guess

So I think it would be cool to have this feature but it's not badly needed.

It's true when I use SDL, I still think it's a bit annoying, so is OGRE(which is real DLL bloat).

I like clean design too IMHO, didn'y buy B3DSDK yet, but I guess there's no static version....

In the world of 500GB HDDs, 2GB ram, etc, why do you absolutely need to poke at this? There will only be ONE copy of that DLL anyways. And I suppose you post in all the other forums about all the other various DLLs to make them granular, such as BASS? Newton, etc etc?

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>post in all the other forums about all the other various DLLs to make them granular, such as BASS? Newton, etc etc?

Not bad idea, but I think convert the existing decls is easier, and more economic.

BTW, I'll looking into the MoleBox compatibility as soon as I bought it. Since it's Windows only, MoleBox is a good solution to use.

Er.. converting a DECLS has absolutely no effect on what is in the DLL. You're only going to be able to do that if you have the source to the DLL, and I don't think that's the case with BASS, is it?