Developing Graphics Frameworks 03 Setting Up A Development Environment

Summary

Learn how to create an windowed application that contains shader code, compiles and links the shaders to create a GPU program ... Create shader programs containing uniform variables used to change the position and Learn about the four stages of the Based on student and viewer feedback, in order to increase cross-platform compatibility, a few changes are introduced in this ... Test the code in the Texture class, UV coordinates, and TextureMaterial shader by Learn about the core concepts and vocabulary used in computer Create the Rendered class, with performs general OpenGL initialization tasks, and contains a function named render, which takes ... Learn how to use the recently added functionality from the Input class to change values of Uniform variables and move geometric ... Create axes and grids that help provide a sense of orientation and scale within a scene. Create the base Geometry class, which defines the overall shape of geometric objects and stores vertex-related properties (such ... Learn about how surfaces of three-dimensional objects can be represented by a parametric function: the x, y, z coordinates are ... Create the base Material class, which defines the overall appearance of geometric objects and stores uniform variable data (using ... Create a Polygon Geometry class that can generate data to render a regular polygon with any number of sides and radius.