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Should I use Game Engines to learn to make 3D games?

HI i am a software engineering student in his second-last year. I am proficient with C,C++,C# and java programming languages, and being a student of engineering I have studied calculus, vectors etc ...
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Draw contour around object in Opengl

I need to draw contour around 2d objects in 3d space. I tried drawing lines around object(+points to fill the gap), but due to line width, some part of it(~50%) was covering object. I tried to use ...
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OpenGL: VBO or glBegin() + glEnd()?

I recently was given this link to a tutorial site from someone who I gave the original OGL Redbook to. The third header down says distinctly to forget glBegin() & glEnd() as the typical render ...
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OpenGL behaviour depending on the graphics card?

This is something that never happened to me before. I have an OpenGL code that uses GLSL shaders to texture a 3D model. The code involves a lot of GPU texture processing, blending, etc... I wanted to ...
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in the shadow of a sphere [duplicate]

(Related, but somewhat different, to my previous question) How can I determine in a fragment shader if a fragment is in the shadow of a sphere? That is, if it is occluded by the sphere and is past ...