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OS X OpenGL 3.2 Core (Black Screen)

I want to render a Quad via VAO, IBO and VBO but nothing is drawn. I'm using glDrawRangeElements in OS X OpenGL 3.2 Core context. The screen is completely black without any error. GLFW3 is used to ...
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Most efficient way to draw vertex with OpenGL

I am writing an OpenGL 3D game. There will be tons of triangles for terrain and objects in use. I am studying from the OpenGL official guide and the first presented method is to call a function ...
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Reverting the view SDL

So in my SDL application, which I setup for OpenGL, if I were to do the following code: glBegin(GL_QUADS); glVertex2i(0, 0); glVertex2i(50, 0); glVertex2i(50, 50); glVertex2i(0, 50); glEnd(); The ...
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How to start graphics programming? [closed]

I'm trying to find a complete guide for OpenGL programming but all i can found is some blogs with non-finished lessons and old books. I don't want to just make a game, i want to develop my own game ...
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Selecting and moving object in OpenGL Gameplay3D Engine

I'm using Gameplay3d as a game engine to develop a simple board game. PEG Solitaire I've come to the part where I've created a 2D grid for all the movable object, empty locations and also where it's ...
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Does my 2D OpenGL renderer need optimized?

I've started a game engine for learning purposes. I have successfully gotten an opengl renderer working and I can draw textures of varying sizes to the screen. The way I have done this is by creating ...
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Can I use multiple OpenGL version together

I want to use GLSL but keep my current OpenGL 1.1 setup. The thing is that can I use OpenGL 2.0 shaders on OpenGL 1.1 renders?
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Opengl binding shaders vs binding buffers performance

Quick question for an opengl guru, I'm in the process of building a render queue and can either reduce the number of shader binding or the number of vertex buffer binding. I just want to know which ...
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OpenGLES GLSL Shader attributes always bound to 0

So I have a very simple vertex shader as follows #version 120 attribute vec3 position; attribute vec3 inColor; uniform mat4 mvp; varying vec3 fragColor; void main(void){ fragColor = inColor; ...
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Objects won't render when Texture Compression + Mipmapping is Enabled

[EDIT: FIXED - Calling setting texture max level fixed that] I'm optimizing my game and I've just implemented compressed (DXTn) texture loading in OpenGL. I've worked my way removing bugs but I can't ...
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Engine and level of detail for maze / labyrinth / dungeon scene?

My question is similar to these: Algorithm for generating a 2d maze To scene graph or not to scene graph? I.e. in this case should I use jme3 or some other engine (I heard unreal offers a free ...
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Fixed-Function vs Shaders: Which for beginner?

I'm currently going to college for computer science. Although I do plan on utilizing an existing engine at some point to create a small game, my aim right now is towards learning the fundamentals: ...
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How many textures can usually I bind at once?

I'm developing a game engine, and it's only going to work on modern (Shader model 4+) hardware. I figure that, by the time I'm done with it, that won't be such an unreasonable requirement. My ...
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Sorting objects before rendering

I'm trying to implement a scene graph and in all the articles i've come across there is talk about object sorting. So you'd sort your objects by "material" for example. Now untill i sat down and ...
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GLSL default shaders

I've been arming my engine with error checking code. I'll try to describe this situation to my best abilities. Whenever i load a shader and there's an error (file doesn't exist, compilation error, ...
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GLSL shader compilation

When i'm compiling a shader does it have to be complete? Can i use glCompileShader on a shader without a main() function? The OpenGL reference documentation has a nice writeup on program linking ...
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handling buffers in OpenGL

I'm reading through the OpenGL docummentation for version 3.3 core. I'm having issues understanding proper buffer deletion. ATM i have an object that loads itself into OpenGL memory in the ...
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Getting the normals of a hemisphere?

I'm trying to calculate the normal for a hemisphere. I draw the hemi-sphere by this code: for(float phi = 0.0; phi < 1.567; phi += factor) { glBegin(GL_QUAD_STRIP); for(float ...
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Difference between the terms Material & Effect

I'm making an effect system right now (I think, because it may be a material system... or both!). The effects system follows the common (e.g. COLLADA, DirectX) effect framework abstraction of Effects ...
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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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How can I create an orthographic display that handles different screen dimensions?

I'm trying to create an iPad/iPhone game using GLES2.0 that contains a 3D scene with a heads-up-display/GUI overlaid on the top. However, this problem would also apply if I were to port my game to a ...
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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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Having a hard time finding a graphic engine programmer [closed]

I'm looking for a graphic engine programmer that knows both OpenGL and software rendering code to hire for a very short period (2 days). It's urgent and I'm willing to pay a very high amount of money. ...
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OpenGL 2 and back vs 3 and forward: What are the key differences for 2D graphics?

OpenGL contexts before and after OpenGL 3.0 are rather different. So far I've really only worked with buffers on either side anyway, I do know the most notable difference is lack of Immediate Mode. ...
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How to find the bottleneck of the graphical pipeline

I've been wondering about this issue for a while. How to find the bottleneck of the graphical pipeline. Recently I've been using a program to draw massive amount of polygons in a simple scene with ...
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OpenGL 3D Camera

And here I am again, looking for help with my OpenGL camera once again. This is starting to get embarrassing. Anyway, here's the deal: I think my OpenGL First Person free roaming camera is starting ...
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Real time shadow casting in a 2D isometric game

I'm writing a small 2d isometric engine in C++ and I'm trying to implement real time shadow casting. I followed a simple approach described on this page and here is the result (light is located at the ...
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Rendering 2D grass

My current project, using Java and OpenGL, has a fairly standard overhead tilemap in the style of the Zelda games. I'd really like to add "real" grass to the grass tiles so that there are actually ...
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OpenGL ES 2.0: Vertex and Fragment Shader for 2D with Transparency

Could I knindly ask for correct examples of OpenGL ES 2.0 Vertex and Fragment shader for displaying 2D textured sprites with transparency? I have fairly simple shaders that display textured polygon ...
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OpenGL ES 2.0: Picking Individual Polygon Sprites from within VBO

Say, I send 10 polygon pairs (one polygon pair == one 2d sprite == one rectangle == two triangles) into OpenGL ES 2.0 VBO. The 10 polygon pairs represent one animated 2D object consisting of 10 ...
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OpenGL ES 2.0: Using VBOs?

OpenGL VBOs (vertex buffer objects) have been developed to improve performance of OpenGL (OpenGL ES 2.0 in my case). The logic is that with the help of VBOs, the data does not need to be copied from ...
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Vertex Array Object (OpenGL)

I've just started out with OpenGL I still haven't really understood what Vertex Array Objects are and how they can be employed. If Vertex Buffer Object are used to store vertex data (such as their ...
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OpenGL or OpenGL ES

What should I learn? OpenGL 4.1 or OpenGL ES 2.0? I will be developing desktop applications using Qt but I may start developing mobile applications in a few months, too. I don't know anything about ...
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Can you sync screen update on vertical retrace with OpenGL?

In OpenGL, is there a way to ensure I get exactly, no more nor less, 60 (or whatever rate my monitor is set for) frames per second? Of course given that the new frame can be calculated in less than ...
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Is there any performance benefit to sharing shaders between programs?

OpenGL allows you to share the same shader between multiple programs. Aside from saving small amounts of memory and a shader handle, are there any GPU-side performance benefits to doing this?
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ATI driver bug and rendering to a texture 2d array in OpenGL

I am trying to render to a texture2Darray in OpenGL, with a similar setup as descriped in this post. My question is, if anyone has gotten this to work on ATI hardware? Or is there still a bug in the ...
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What's wrong with this OpenGL model picking code?

I am making simple model viewer using OpenGL. When I want to pick an object OpenGL returns nothing or an object that is in another place. This is my code: GLuint buff[1024] = {0}; GLint ...
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How to Make A Fast Graphics Engine? [closed]

Assuming I were to develop a graphics engine for a modern PC game that used only DirectX or OpenGL, which techniques could I use to make sure it ran quickly? Edit: I'm looking for any approaches ...
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Fastest way to create a simple particle effect

I am looking to the fastest way to create really simple particle effect that will be spammed like hell on the game... Basically, my game looks like a vectrex game, made mostly of lines... I want to ...