Now that CryEngine 3.8.1 is out and finally supports Linux and OpenGL, will we be lucky enough to see a Linux client in the not too distant future?asked by Voodoo
TL;DRThey'd very much like a Linux client but it depends on engine OpenGL support and their busy graphics team, so he won't promise it within a month or two, only a not-too-distant, not-too-close future.
Yes, CryEngine 3.8.2 is out actually, as of the other day. We would very much want to make Linux work. I think there's some issues in the openGL side of things, cause we've done some work and customization on the graphics drivers and the shaders, so that would probably need some support. We already compile the game in Linux, because all our servers run Linux, so we compile CryEngine to Linux, but yeah, I would like to have a Linux client, and it really depends on the timeline of getting openGL implementation they have on CryEngine and making sure it supports the extra additions we've done inside Star Citizen. So, that's really down on our graphics and engine department, and they're pretty busy right now, working on some stuff that I think a lot of people would be excited to see. And, one of them is obviously DX12, so I don't think that I can think I can say this is going to happen in the next month or two, but it's definitely something we would want to do. OpenGL is something we're interested in, as well as DX12 and stuff like that, so I would say, in the not too distant, but not too close, future. How about that.