OpenGLSandbox
An OpenGL game engine endeavour (by Jack-0)
Glitter
Dead Simple OpenGL (by Polytonic)
| OpenGLSandbox | Glitter | |
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| 1 | 4 | |
| 0 | 2,414 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.2 | 1.5 | |
| 9 months ago | 29 days ago | |
| C | CMake | |
| MIT License | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
OpenGLSandbox
Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenGLSandbox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-14.
Glitter
Posts with mentions or reviews of Glitter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-26.
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Please help me with my error, am new. (Creating an window) [Arch Linux]
When you return to OpenGL, try this tutorial instead: https://learnopengl.com . The description for linking is not very extensive but they list all options you should include. They also have a CMake boilerplate project, where the CMake part is already setup and you can just write your code https://github.com/Polytonic/Glitter
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How to get started with openGL (on linux)?
You can use Glitter as your boilerplate, it includes all the libraries learnopengl uses. If are more into C / structured programming I recommend this ebook https://antongerdelan.net/opengl/
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How hard would it be to learn how to render a cube?
If you use https://github.com/Polytonic/Glitter, it shouldn't be that hard. Using Glitter and LearnOpenGL you will learn how to render a cube quickly.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing OpenGLSandbox and Glitter you can also consider the following projects:
glad - Multi-Language Vulkan/GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL Loader-Generator based on the official specs.
LearnOpenGL - Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com
hex0ad - Tile-based strategy game using 0ad assets
cmake-for-modules - CMake script activating experimental support for C++ Modules
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
Koin3D - Koin3D, a java port of Coin3D with LWJGL
tinyrenderer - A brief computer graphics / rendering course