There are hundreds of Direct X books and tutorials on making 2D but what about OpenGL?!?!?!?!???? Direct X sucks!!!!! I just want to know if anyone knows of any book son making 2D games with C++ and OpenGL. "He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster... when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."~Friedrich Nietzsche

I have some tutorials about making a 2D game in OpenGL coming up, though its not full 2D, as it uses a lot of 3D models, in game. NeHe has a couple of pure 2D tutorials though, check them out.

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Trent (ShiningKnight)
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I just want to make a 2d world, with 2d charecters, and 2d collision detection. How much different is it than making 3d, besides rendering. I would think, logically, I would load the bitmap, and treat is as an object I can set x and y position of, and check if its in collision with another. In direct x its LoadBitmap()
So what about OpenGL? Please, notify me, or make a posting or something when your 2d tutorials come out. By then I will know how to make 3d games decently well, lol.You would think, since 2d would be easier tha 3d, that there would be more tutorials, or more books. It truly makes no sense.

quote:Original post by ShiningKnight
I have some tutorials about making a 2D game in OpenGL coming up, though its not full 2D, as it uses a lot of 3D models, in game. NeHe has a couple of pure 2D tutorials though, check them out.

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Trent (ShiningKnight)
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"He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster... when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."~Friedrich Nietzsche

I think it''s because OpenGL is not traditionally meant for 2D rendering. What you could do is texture some quads as tiles and treat that as 2D tiles. It would be faster on hardware than using the straight bitmap type functions.

Kevin

No offense KHawk, but that''s a pretty lame reason. Dx8 IMHO isn''t "meant" for 2d games, but handles just as fine as OpenGL does...it''s all in the matrices..

VB isn''t "meant" for serious code either but somehow it always ends up in our network as production material..

funny how that happens..

Erik

No, KHawk is right, OpenGL is not MADE for 2D graphics, it is MADE however for 3D graphics, and making a ''2D'' game out of a 3D graphics API is far from hard. All you do is load a bitmap, texture map it to a quad, and you''re set. Thats, basically, all there is to it.

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Trent (ShiningKnight)
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If you want a basic example of it check out the little demo I put together on my site which shows how it''s done.



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