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Hello everyone!
Some time ago I found a tutorial about software 3D programming. One thing caused another and soon I was working hard on a small object renderer. I got it to do vertex shading, and backside culling.
Now this took a lot of time to build although it was very fun. However I''m a bit stuck now and would appreciate some suggestions from those more experienced. What would be a good idea to to next? Also do you know of any good books?
As I''m interested in 3D I also want to look at OpenGL but I''m unsure if I should wait with that until I get more experience on how to write a renderer myself.
Thanks for your help.
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quote:Original post by James Trotter
nehe.gamedev.net
Thank you for the link. Does anyone know if there is any good book to learn software 3D? Or should I do OpenGL first?
Thanks
Many people jump directly into hardware rendering only to find that they have no idea what they''re doing. But since you seem to have gotten the basics of software rendering down, I''d say do move on to hardware rendering (OpenGL or Direct3D, my choice is Direct3D but pick the one you like best). Nobody uses much software rendering except for learning purposes anymore (and to do some kinda cool stuff, hi Nick on flipcode.com 
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Too sad but right :/.I myself has jumped in the OpenGL programming without to have anyidea of 3D math.No i''m doing a software renderer too and i''ve started to learn some stuff.The 3D math is very easy in fact and it''s fun to learn it.But it depends on the person if he wants to learn something or not.
Everything has it''s logical explanation....
Everything has it''s logical explanation....
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quote:Original post by Mihail121
Too sad but right :/.I myself has jumped in the OpenGL programming without to have anyidea of 3D math.No i''m doing a software renderer too and i''ve started to learn some stuff.The 3D math is very easy in fact and it''s fun to learn it.But it depends on the person if he wants to learn something or not.
I think polygon filling can be a bit difficult to grasp. Especially with vertex shading
I seemed to always get seams at the sides of the triangles for some reason. Don''t remember how I corrected it though.Similarly the bresenham line drawing algorithm is a bit strange in the beginning until you realize that it is the old y=kx+m formula adapted to only use integers.
Thanks for all the replies. I think I might continue to study software 3D some more before looking at OpenGL. Still have that evil frustrum clipping to learn
. Will probably have to rewrite the renderer though as it is became a bit like spaghetti code from all experimenting.
I''d suggest ..
http://www.flipcode.com/portal/
..theres also a 3d geometry primer, accessible on the left from the www.flipcode.com frontpage.
P.S. NeHe is good, but not God..... not the answer to everything
http://www.flipcode.com/portal/
..theres also a 3d geometry primer, accessible on the left from the www.flipcode.com frontpage.
P.S. NeHe is good, but not God..... not the answer to everything
Software rendering is still used a lot, just not in real time programs. maya, 3ds, lightwave, all have software renderers. Software rendering is a perfectly good field to get into. It isn''t used all that much in games, but the computer graphics industry also includes movies and other photorealistic applications that arent'' attainable in real time.
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