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JoeImp
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Anyone here know how to use OpenGL at all? If you have any good tutorials on lighting, texturing etc, I'd appreciate if you could send them to me  The book I bought assumes that you know advanced win32 when it gets to advanced concepts and just applys openGL to it  .
Imp
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Arcane Wizard
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Well, you could learn win32 first (which is something I recommend since I'm all for building up your knowledge one step at a time) but this is the best opengl site I know:
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JoeImp
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I dislike Nehe. They make their programs waaaay too long, too much windows stuff thrown in. I dont see why you need 80 lines of setting up a window, resizing it, etc when you can use one line of glut lol. Nehe has a lot of wierd functions and its set up wierd. Of the ~$200 of books ive bought in the last month or two, they make it so much simpler, nothing like that. (Just bought a new book from borders 30 min ago yay)
Imp
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coelurus
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| Glut has a special way of doing things, a set of functions that are _needed_. I prefer the pure display-setup that Nehe uses and it can be split from the main code. The best way though is to see how other pros do. Get source-code from various locations and see how they setup their displays. If you got specific preferences in doing things, we can't help. |
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JoeImp
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Go look through some source for the linux OS or something "pro" and see how much that really helps you. Hey, I think Ill go learn another language! Lets get 300 lines that we've never seen before dropped on us to make a red box! Sounds like a plan! You have to admit, to learn it, 3 lines to make your window isnt that bad.
Have A Nice Day,
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Arcane Wizard
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I don't think they're that long, and since they don't require any custom includes (maybe this changed since the last time I went to nehe?) I think they're pretty decent.
You did ask for any good tutorials on opengl and all I did was suggest the best one I know. |
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JoeImp
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| Posted: 17 Aug 2003 04:18:13 pm Post subject: |
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| I was mostly replying to Coelrus. |
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Arcane Wizard
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Well, he has a point, looking at other people's source code does help but I don't think it get's you that far as to say it's the best method to learning new programming languages. As far as I'm concerned, books and tutorials (preferably downloadable, but windows' temporary internet files directory can be handy to get what without having to save all the pages page by page manually.) and actually trying stuff out still are the best way to learn.
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