[SDL] To Bob Pendleton ->> Can you share your GL doc?

Stephane Marchesin stephane.marchesin at wanadoo.fr
Thu Sep 4 06:20:01 PDT 2003


Nayan Choudhary wrote:

>Hi Bob,
>
>I am just a beginner and love 3D stuff but don't know GL (OpenGL..)
>I have lots of stuff to read (more than 4-5 books on OpenGL) but 
>couldn't understand more than few pages. Sorry, but I am a lazy 
>programmer who believe in concentrating on doing new stuff rather 
>than understanding old complex ones. OpenGl functions alone are 
>scaring me a lot! And, please don't tell me about GLUT and Open 
>Inventor!
>
>I would like to learn 3D programming using SDL + OpenGL but there is 
>no complete documentation or "Know how to do it" on the same. You 
>said in a mail posted earlier that you are writing some stuff on 
>OpenGl. So, if you or any other guy want to share some *REAL* easy 
>stuff about OpenGL + SDL for a beginner like me, please help.
>
The nehe opengl tutorials are very good. They start from the begining 
(draw a polygon) and go up to shadows & cel shading. The associated code 
is ported to a variety of architectures, including SDL :
http://nehe.gamedev.net/

Stephane






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