freeglut VS LearnOpenGL

I'm guessing you're thinking of the GLUT spec, of which FreeGLUT is an implementation.

If you are going down the glut way, it's freeglut what you should be looking at https://freeglut.sourceforge.net/

I don't expect any of the memory leaks you discovered to originate in freeglut, but if you think there is an issue with it, please report it on our bug tracker on github (https://github.com/FreeGLUTProject/freeglut/issues), with all the relevant information (like this program, and valgrind output, or whatever else is relevant).

an alternative to GLUT is FreeGLUT, but the problem with that is that It's not as useful as GLFW still

FreeGLUT - Modeled after the old GLUT from the early days of OpenGL. Very light; supported by almost all desktop (Win, Mac, Posix) platforms.

Eh, the FreeGLUT folks are keeping the dream(?) alive.

Also recommended: LearnOpenGL [1] and Vulkan Guide [2]

[1]: https://learnopengl.com/

I want to begin game development as a hobby, but I'm unsure where to start. I did follow through https://learnopengl.com/ a few years ago, and while it was a very interesting experience, I imagine I would need to use an existing engine to be productive.

Do you recommend any books and tutorials aimed at experienced programmers with 0 knowledge of game development/design?

- Game development - Unity3D project based learning in C#: https://learn.unity.com/ - Graphics - There was another user on r/GraphicsProgramming the other day (who teaches Computer Graphics at his university) that linked their lecture series for the entry year of their course here: https://tamats.com/learn/realtime-graphics/ - Project based learning: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki - Rendering API tutorials: https://vulkan-tutorial.com/, https://learnopengl.com/

If u want to make 3D game, you'll probably want to learn some 3D shader graphic stuff. OpenGL is a good start. https://learnopengl.com

LearnOpenGl.com

Possibly a smidge outdated.

Goes from blank window to rendering 3d meshes with advanced lighting techniques (HDR, SSAO and more).

Heped me understand shader pipeline, so I recommend it.

https://learnopengl.com

and then https://learnopengl.com/

I'm reading the guest article about frustum culling on learnopengl.com and there's a video demonstrating how it works and for debug purposes they have a bunch of spheres turning red or green which I assume means they're being culled or not so my question is if I wanted to do this do I have to make a mesh for whatever bounding volume shape or is there a specific method for something like this?