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OpenGL Roundup, April 10, 2014: GDC 2014 Report, libgdx 1.0, Data-Oriented Design and More…

Top stories GDC 2014 Report libgdx: We’ll go 1.0 next weekend! Recent posts A Performance Comparison Between Java and C on the Nexus 5 How Powerful Is Your Nexus 7? Finishing up Our Native Air Hockey Project with Touch Events and Basic Collision Detection Android native development Android on x86: Java Native Interface and the Android … Continue reading »

Finishing Up Our Native Air Hockey Project With Touch Events and Basic Collision Detection

In this post in the air hockey series, we’re going to wrap up our air hockey project and add touch event handling and basic collision detection with support for Android, iOS, and emscripten. Prerequisites This lesson continues the air hockey project series, building upon the code from GitHub for ‘article-3-matrices-and-objects’. Here are the previous posts in this series: … Continue reading »

OpenGL Roundup, November 4, 2013

Android 4.4 for Game Developers APPS WORLD LONDON 2013 New Adventures in C++ with Cinder and More Objectively Stylish — The NYTimes Objective-C style guide. Vivante Unveils Less than 1 mm2 OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU for Wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) Devices Why use a Graphics Library instead of an Engine? (Ex: OpenGL vs Unity) – … Continue reading »

OpenGL Roundup, October 1, 2013: Hexscreen 3D Live Wallpaper and more…

A fellow developer and blogger, Hisham, has released his Hexscreen 3D Live Wallpaper to the market, and it looks quite cool. Check it out: The wallpaper can be downloaded from Google Play. In other news… Libgdx and Bullet Physics on iOS via RoboVM Continue reading »

OpenGL Roundup, September 19, 2013

Here’s the beginning of a new series on OpenGL ES 2.0 for iOS, using Apple’s GLKit. GLKit to the max: OpenGL ES 2.0 for iOS – Part 1: GLKit Features OpenGL ES 2: How does it draw? ROBOVM BACKEND IN LIBGDX NIGHTLIES AND FIRST PERFORMANCE FIGURES! – Libgdx is moving to a new backend for iOS … Continue reading »

Adding a 3d Perspective and Object Rendering to Our Air Hockey Project in Native C Code

For this post in the air hockey series, we’ll learn how to render our scene from a 3D perspective, as well as how to add a puck and two mallets to the scene. We’ll also see how easy it is to bring these changes to Android, iOS, and emscripten. Prerequisites This lesson continues the air … Continue reading »

Loading a PNG into Memory and Displaying It as a Texture with OpenGL ES 2: Adding Support for iOS

In the previous post, we looked at loading in texture data from a PNG file and uploading it to an OpenGL texture, and then displaying that on the screen in Android. To do that, we used libpng and loaded in the data from our platform-independent C code. In this post, we’ll add supporting files to … Continue reading »

Calling OpenGL from C on iOS, Sharing Common Code with Android

In the last post, we covered how to call OpenGL from C on Android by using the NDK; in this post, we’ll call into the same common code from an Objective-C codebase which will run on an iOS device. Prerequisites A Mac with a suitable IDE installed. An iOS emulator, or a provisioned iPhone or … Continue reading »

OpenGL Roundup, June 24, 2013

Here are some interesting links I’ve come across recently: Cross-platform LIBGDX ROBOVM BACKEND Watch how Valve and Nvidia ported Source to Linux (and GL!) Giveaways Free Book! (Programming 3D Applications in HTML5 and WebGL) OpenGL History of the Modern GPU Series How to write portable WebGL OpenGL ES Particle System Tutorial: Part 1/3 NDK Porting … Continue reading »