Readme for QuickGL

Copyright (C) 2023 Marek Zalewski aka Drwalin

QuickGL is highly performant opengl graphics language. It's suited for games with very simple graphics and simple linear animations without animation blending.

Engine is tested to work well on Intel (with integraded gpu) platform with suppored extensions listed in architecture/OpenGLExtensions.txt

Features

Supported Features

• Frustum Culling
• Linear animations - animation loading is very strict as of now
• Multiple cameras

Features to be likely supported in (hopefully near) future

• Occlusion Culling
• Post processing
• Deffered shading:
  • Lights
  • Shadows
  • Glow
• Textures
• Texture atlas
• Reflections
• Level Of Detail
  • Loaded from file
  • Automatically generated

Unsuppored Features

• Animation Blending
• Ray Tracing
• High quality tranlucency

Compilation

Required libraries (linux)

• GL
• GLU
• glfw
• GLEW
• x11
• Xxf86vm
• Xrandr
• Xi

Required libraries (windows)

• opengl32
• glfw3
• glew32
• glu32

Required include files from libraries

• <GL/glew.h>
• <GL/glew.h>
• <GLFW/glfw3.h>
• <glm/glm.hpp>
• <glm/gtc/matrix_transform.hpp>
• <glm/gtc/type_ptr.hpp>
• <glm/gtc/quaternion.hpp>
• <glm/matrix.hpp>

Required C++ version

Compilator able to build with C++17 standard