The Basics of the Art of Lighting is a three part tutorial by Audri Phillips from Intel. Autodesk Maya is the tool used in this tutorial, but the concepts are universal and useful to learn in order to understand the light interactions that occur in the real world. Ultimately, lighting is about controlling and shaping … Read more
Chapter 3 from OpenGLBook.com is now available. The new chapter covers index buffers and primitive types. Source code compatible with OpenGL 3.3 is provided.
The code for several demos in the GLUT tutorial was plagued with a int to void * conversion. While this seems to work perfectly in Windows, at least in this case, Linux users found out that it did not even compile. The code has been updated and hopefully the problem is gone. Please do report … Read more
ShaderGen is an old tool from 3D labs, but its usefulness is not gone. The tool creates shaders that mimic the results of a set of fixed function state. There is a large set of options to define a state as available in OpenGL compatibility mode. Lighting, Fog, and all the other features that are … Read more
ShareCG is a site with a huge amount of modelling tutorials, 3D models for download, and textures.
The Lighthouse3D OpenGL View Frustum Culling Tutorial has been ported to the new site. Bug reports and suggestions are most welcome.
The OpenGLBook site released chapter 2. This chapter covers how to draw simple geometry using vertex buffer objects.
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
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).