Graphics Programming Reference

A collection of notes and scripts for various graphics programming techniques and paradigms. This is not intended to be a guide for graphics programming beginners, but it will cover theory and implementation of beginner to advanced techniques.

Contents

This repo contains reference/theory pages, class implementations, and example uses. Content has been divided into chapters which progressivly build. All reference pages, class implementations, and example scripts may be found in the linked folders.

Chapter 1 - The Basics

Gets you started with creating a window in OpenGL

• GLFW Window Reference
• OpenGL Boilerplate
• Window Class
• Abstracted Boilerplate Example

Chapter 2 - Rendering First Steps

Convers the basics of rendering 2D images to the screen.

VBO

• VBO Reference
• VBO Class
• Triangle Example

EBO

• EBO Reference
• EBO Class
• Quad Example

Shader

• Shader Reference
• Shader Class

VAO

• VAO Reference
• VAO Class
• Color Attribute Example

Texture

• Texture Reference
• Image Class
• Texture Class
• Texture Example

Chapter 3 - 3D

Introduces GLM transformations and applies knowledge for 3D graphics

Transformations

• Transformation and GLM Reference
• Matrix Class
• Transformation Example

Input

• Input Reference
• Mouse Class
• Keyboard Class
• Mouse Input Example

Going 3D

• Projections Reference
• 3D Cube Example

Camera

• Camera Reference
• Camera Class
• Camera Example

Meshes

• Mesh Reference
• Mesh Class
• Mesh Example

Usage

This repo contains a number of examples. Use CMake to run these examples from source.

cd ./examples/build

cmake ..

This process will download all of the required dependencies to the build folder. This may take a few minutes. Once it has finished, you can build the executables.

cmake --build .

This creates a seperate executable for every example. Simply run the desired example:

./example

Sources

Here is a list of sources used to create this reference. I highly reccomend all of these for deeper understanding:

• learnopengl
• OpenGL Wiki