When we call a function from the OpenGL API we may be calling it incorrectly, and this is what glGetError is good for. “Incorrectly” can mean several things, for instance, the parameters are not in a valid range, or a function is being called without a proper context. Every time an error is detected a … Read more
AMD CodeAnalyst for Windows® | AMD Developer Central. AMD CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer for Windows is a suite of powerful tools that help developers optimize software performance. CodeAnalyst uses profiling to identify and analyze performance hotspots within an application, library, driver or kernel module. CodeAnalyst profiles both managed and native code. CodeAnalyst collects system-wide profile data … Read more
GLUT was conceived by Mark Kilgard with the goal of providing a simple, yet powerful enough, toolkit to deal with the intricacies of the windowing system when building OpenGL applications. In my opinion GLUT was a very effective solution and completely fits the bill. As far as I know, GLUT is still the simplest toolkit … Read more
When working with the newest OpenGL functionality most of us rely on third party libs to make the functions available to us. Some examples of these third party libs are GLEW and GLEE. These libs do a wonderful job and most of the time they save us a lot of work. However, sometimes strange things … Read more
Bullet physics library version 2.78 released. New in Bullet 2.78 Fracture and glueing demo that can break or glue child shapes of a btCompoundShape when certain impulse thresholds are exceeded. See Bullet/Demos/FractureDemo Breakable constraints, based on an applied impulse threshold. See Bullet/Demos/ConstraintDemos Improved binary .bullet file format with soft body serialization and See … Read more
GPU Tools | AMD Developer Central. AMD has an excellent collection of tools for OpenCL and Shader development in the GPU Tools area. Included are PerfStudio, a performance analysis and debugging tool, and ShaderAnalizer for analysing the performance of individual shaders. Currently they only work with Compatibility Profile, hope an update will cover the more … Read more
CUDA Toolkit 4.0 (RC1) has been available for some time for registered developers. CUDA Toolkit 4.0 RC2 is now available to download at NVIDIA Developer Zone. Also available is a release feature overview presentation (audio+slides).
Assimp is a Cross-Platform Open Source Library to load 3D modes. Currently, as of version 2.0, it can import an impressive list of formats and it also exports to Collada and 3DS MAX. Once loaded, all the models attributes are easily accessible through the API. The library also performs some post processing tasks on the … Read more