You will need to change the previous code for this tutorial. OpenGL is used to communicate with the Graphical Processing Unit, so by default it does not contain keyboard control. You will need a library to communicate with the keyboard. We can use SDL (which we have been...
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April 23, 2014 admin Intermediate
In this short tutorial we will demonstrate how to do blending in OpenGL. You may notice in the final code we load two different textures: one background texture and one object texture (glass). The background will be a normal square. The cube will blended on top of it,...
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April 23, 2014 admin Intermediate
To create a fire/explosion like effect we can use the same particle engine as in the previous tutorial (starfield) but we have to modify the code a little bit. All particles move upwards; in addition, every particle has to moves at a different speed, and start from the...
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April 23, 2014 admin Intermediate
We introduce a simple particle engine. A particle engine can be used for many purposes in 3d graphics such as fire, explosions, lasers, stars and many other fun things! To make a particle engine, we need to have a particle set. The set consists of N elements...
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April 23, 2014 admin Intermediate
Using the code given in the last tutorial, it is easy to create a cube font. We have altered the code to display letters, but used the same principle. Again, we have defined a matrix A of MxN but this time we have increased its with to fit...
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April 23, 2014 admin Easy
We have extended the previous tutorial to draw a nice looking maze. We have defined a matrix A of NxM with the elements {0,1}. If an element is {1} a cube will be placed, if an element is {0} nothing will happen. Thus, we define the matrix as:...
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April 23, 2014 admin Easy
In this tutorial we will explain to you how to make a textured cube using OpenGL and SDL. You will need to have the GNU C Compiler (short gcc) installed. Furthermore you of course need OpenGL and SDL installed. If you are on Ubuntu Linux you can use...
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April 23, 2014 admin Easy
