Mmmm OpenGL

Gave up on DirectX?
Well personally, I hate book-classes like the ones in Jim Adams ''Programming Role-Playing Games with DirectX 8.0''. But if anyone wants to program games without having to design one for a year, classes seem like the only solution. It''s also easier to manage your projectfiles with classes.

I didn''t answer your question.

.lick

OpenGL Programming Guide (Red book) teaches you OpenGL without any classes. It is a good book and is availiable on-line for free. But Pipo DeClown is right, you will have to use classes later.

"C lets you shoot yourself in the foot rather easily. C++ allows you to reuse the bullet!"

Yes I know that I know I have to use classes but not when learning.

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Bad Monkey Productions

You don''t have to use anything. OpenGL itself has nothing to do with classes, although the code in the book might use them. If you want to learn OpenGL I''d suggest reading the Red Book too.

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Doesn´t the Red Book use some kind of library specifically created for the book?

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Bad Monkey Productions

No it uses glut which is a great library for handling tasks such as creating a window which can take a few hundred lines of win32 code. The reason why it uses glut is for the following reasons.

1) The code will be portable to many platforms supported by glut.

2) The book''s purpose is to teach u opengl syntax and not the huge amount of code required to create a window in all the platforms.

3)It is way simpler for ppl new to GL to pick up the language as they can bypass the window creation and focus on the api itself.

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Original post by ShlomiSteinberg
OpenGL Programming Guide (Red book) teaches you OpenGL without any classes. It is a good book and is availiable on-line for free. But Pipo DeClown is right, you will have to use classes later.

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i think he's talking about the book by prima tech (OpenGL Game Programming), not the red book (OpenGL Programming Guide).

my oppinion: if you want to learn OpenGL, buy this book. first you learn basics without classes, but in the third part you start using classes because all the book taught you so far is build into a simple engine (and try to code an engine without objects..)

btw, the files on your homepage are infected ...

[edited by - Zapata on August 11, 2003 9:32:24 AM]

Heh yeah I know, I alwyas forget to delete them, will do it now. I´ve ordered the book now Seems like a good place to start. /me is of to delete some files

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Original post by Zapata

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Original post by ShlomiSteinberg
OpenGL Programming Guide (Red book) teaches you OpenGL without any classes. It is a good book and is availiable on-line for free. But Pipo DeClown is right, you will have to use classes later.

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i think he''s talking about the book by prima tech (OpenGL Game Programming), not the red book (OpenGL Programming Guide).

my oppinion: if you want to learn OpenGL, buy this book. first you learn basics without classes, but in the third part you start using classes because all the book taught you so far is build into a simple engine (and try to code an engine without objects..)

btw, the files on your homepage are infected ...

[edited by - Zapata on August 11, 2003 9:32:24 AM]

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Yeah, I know. I was just suggesting a book .


"C lets you shoot yourself in the foot rather easily. C++ allows you to reuse the bullet!"