RayTracer VS SFML

And here there is a project of mine base on them (and not only): aromanro/RayTracer: A ray tracing program (github.com)

I've got a basic obj parser in my ray tracing project: https://github.com/aromanro/RayTracer

And this one: https://github.com/aromanro/RayTracer is with ray tracing, not using opengl, but it illustrates spheres that are 'really' spheres, that is, not made out of polygons. In principle such thing could be done with opengl as well (or some variation of it).

I started out with 'Ray Tracing in One Weekend' (actually it was in very few hours in a Saturday), then went further, first with the other two volumes then with some papers and other things on the net and in the end I've got this: https://github.com/aromanro/RayTracer

I started with number 2 (continuing with the other two in the series), then went further and ended up with this: https://github.com/aromanro/RayTracer

Take a look at SFML. Very easy to get started, and quite capable.

https://www.sfml-dev.org/

As for windows, you'd probably be alright looking into SFML, you can see their Getting Started tutorial for how to install it in your IDE of choice.

SFML (zlib/C++) https://github.com/SFML/SFML

SDL or SFML for drawing. They are both gfx libs but are used differently so read about what you thing suits you better.

Make a game with https://www.sfml-dev.org/ (I used SFML Rust to start learning Rust)

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16) project(CMakeSFMLProject LANGUAGES CXX) include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare(SFML GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/SFML/SFML.git GIT_TAG 2.6.0) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(SFML) add_executable(CMakeSFMLProject src/main.cpp) target_link_libraries(CMakeSFMLProject PRIVATE sfml-graphics) target_compile_features(CMakeSFMLProject PRIVATE cxx_std_17)