Learning OpenGL

Learn how to render real-time 2D and 3D graphics with OpenGL, the world standard API for cross-platform graphics.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Setting Up an OpenGL Development Environment

• Setting up OpenGL and CMake in OS X
• Setting up OpenGL and CMake in Windows
• Building an OpenGL project from scratch

2. Introducing OpenGL

• Understanding OpenGL
• Introduction to OpenGL terminology
• Creating a context and getting version info
• Creating a context and a window
• Creating a context and getting extension info
• Cleaning up the code: Making an app struct

3. Immediate Mode

• Drawing geometric primitives
• Rotating, translating, and scaling

4. The Programmable Pipeline

• Understanding the programmable pipeline
• Introducing shaders and the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)
• Compiling shaders
• Generating Vertex Array Objects
• Generating Vertex Buffer Objects
• Adding color attributes
• Detecting errors
• Cleaning up the code: Make a shader struct

5. Drawing in a 3D World

• Understanding the OpenGL coordinate system
• Introducing matrix transformations
• Applying orthographic projection
• Using Model, View, and Projection matrices
• Working with the Model matrix
• Working with the View matrix
• Working with the Projection matrix

6. Vertex Data

• Using indices of vertex buffers
• Generating dynamic vertex buffer data
• Adding texture coordinates
• Loading image textures
• Adding normals and lighting
• Combining lighting and textures
• Cleaning up the code: Make a texture struct

7. User Interface

• Handling GLFW callbacks
• Adding keyboard input
• Adding mouse input

Conclusion

• Next steps