Villain VS LearnOpenGL

I have been slowly working on 2D/3D game engine for almost a year now. It uses SDL2 for windowing/input, stb_image for texture loading, OpenGL for rendering. I use Cmake to build it. I was using learnopengl.com to learn OpenGL and have been doing this for a while now.

Thank you so much! If we are sharing our code, this is my engine: https://github.com/kaktusas2598/Villain . But it's probably horrible compared to your stuff haha

I think it's a great IDE to make an engine for learning purposes, but one thing which really helped me here is to learn CMake. Check out my repo here https://github.com/kaktusas2598/Villain. I have a main Engine project and inside examples directory I am making games which use this engine and all projects are built using CMake. If I am making example game and see a need to have some feature in the engine, I add it to the engine so multiple games can reuse that. You can check src directory to see what kind of stuff I have in my Engine, still work in progress though!

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Possibly a smidge outdated.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?