Metroid(-like) OpenGL Demo

An OpenGL tech demo with a sky box, some geometry, bitmapped font rendering, and a movable camera.

Compilation And Operation

Fork the demo and enter

cargo build --release

to build it, and then

cargo run

to run it.

Dependencies

Linux

This program requires Rust 2018 Edition (>= 1.30.0) and OpenGL (>= 4.60) to run.

Microsoft Windows

This program requires Rust 2018 Edition (>= 1.30.0) and OpenGL (>= 3.30) to run.

Apple MacOS

This program requires a recent version of Rust (>= 1.30.0) and (OpenGL >= 3.30) to run. It runs on macOS 10.9 through macOS 10.13. As of macOS 10.14, OpenGL is deprecated.

Controls

The demo has the following control scheme.

• A -- Move camera left
• D -- Move camera right
• Q -- Move camera up
• E -- Move camera down
• W -- Move camera forward
• S -- Move camera backwards
• Left Arrow -- Yaw camera left
• Right Arrow -- Yaw camera right
• Up Key -- Pitch camera up
• Down Key -- Pitch camera down
• Z -- Roll camera left
• C -- Roll camera right
• Escape -- Close window and shut down program
• Backspace -- Reset the camera position and orientation to default.