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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaffis" data-source="post: 3764205" data-attributes="member: 10305">Because of the supply issues in finding non-DirectX programming talent, probably. OpenGL is pretty niche anymore. You know the whole PC argument that goes "but there are no games on Mac..."? Yeah, that has trickle down effects on other 3-D applications, as it means that pretty much nobody in the last decade has programmed an OpenGL engine outside of John Carmack and team. Everybody else is working on Direct3d because that's where the momentum is and has been for a long time now. Thus, new talent learns DirectX, not OpenGL, because that's what people are hiring. Hence, the aforementioned momentum.I suppose that there must be some 3d art applications out there, but like I said, niche programmer supply, and they're rarely dealing with the same concerns that game engines are, and the DI tabletop is going to most resemble a game engine.So, bottom line, Mac and Linux afficianados fall victim to economics. It would cost more money to hire programming talent out of this small pool than the bean counters forecast would be lost in alternate OS user subscriptions. I don't know whether to lay the blame at the Mac folks who always sneered at the notion that they'd care about their lack of game support, or Microsoft's DirectX team and their success at marketting and developing their API as an attractive one to program for. Either way, I doubt it would offer much solace.</blockquote>