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Started by White Scorpion July 06, 2004 07:39 PM

10 comments, last by RobD122 19 years, 9 months ago

White Scorpion

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July 06, 2004 07:39 PM

Hi everyone, I was wondering if any of you could give some idea of REALLY basic programs to do with OpenGL ? I can build some nice pyramids and prisms lol Thanks to everyone.

Spintwo

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July 06, 2004 08:11 PM

Build a window? Might as well learn that because that will be the basis of ALL of your programs.

White Scorpion

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July 06, 2004 08:31 PM

I guess it's just like Win32 programming. You take a skeleton and then after a few days/weeks you can make your own. But for now I'd like to know if someone had an idea on a small application to make, nothing too hard. I can make simple forms and some 3D thingies like prisms and pyramids.

daviangel

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July 06, 2004 08:33 PM

Quote:Original post by White Scorpion
I guess it's just like Win32 programming. You take a skeleton and then after a few days/weeks you can make your own. But for now I'd like to know if someone had an idea on a small application to make, nothing too hard. I can make simple forms and some 3D thingies like prisms and pyramids.

try making an opengl screensaver those are almost always impressive!

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White Scorpion

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July 06, 2004 08:49 PM

But again... what will it do ? I have no idea and not much knowledge in OpenGL.

Famine

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July 06, 2004 09:24 PM

Quote:Original post by White Scorpion
But again... what will it do ? I have no idea and not much knowledge in OpenGL.

1] make a robot out of cylinders, with arms, a body, a head from a sphere with a cone on top, legs, fingers and make them all move around relative to each other. Add some light to the scene.

2] make a small sphere bounce around the robot like a basketball

3] make a camera system to view that moving robot with the mouse and keyboard using euler rotations, quaternions etc.

4] post results here when done and we'll give you a more difficult project to work on

eedok

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July 06, 2004 11:17 PM

3d pong, not too hard of a project..

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Squirm

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July 07, 2004 05:01 AM

Conways game of life (cellular automota) (google it). A very simple project and a great way to get going as a beginner (it was my graphical hello world whenever I learnt a new language).