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Lesson 13: Face generation

We can generate 3D faces from 2D flat images. Using OpenGL this can be challenging, after all it is not a lot more than a primitive triangle rendering API. The technique we will use in this tutorial is very similar, if not nearly identical, to terrain generation in our previous tutorial....

September 21, 2014 admin Intermediate

Lesson 12: Terrain Rendering with OpenGL

In this tutorial we will render terrains. Essentially a terrain is a complex 3d model. It conists of vertexes, faces, texture coordinates, normal vectors etc. Al though it is possible to load complete models such as Wavefront OBJ models, it is generally better to dynamically generate them. First, we...