Developing Graphics Frameworks 03 Setting Up A Development Environment

Summary

Learn about the core concepts and vocabulary used in computer Learn how to create an windowed application that contains shader code, compiles and links the shaders to create a GPU program ... Learn about the four stages of the Create shader programs containing uniform variables used to change the position and Based on student and viewer feedback, in order to increase cross-platform compatibility, a few changes are introduced in this ... Create axes and grids that help provide a sense of orientation and scale within a scene. Learn how to use the recently added functionality from the Input class to change values of Uniform variables and move geometric ... Create the Rendered class, with performs general OpenGL initialization tasks, and contains a function named render, which takes ... 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 the base Geometry class, which defines the overall shape of geometric objects and stores vertex-related properties (such ... Test the code in the Texture class, UV coordinates, and TextureMaterial shader by Create customized Geometry and Material objects within an application. Examples include an "M" shape, connected points along ...