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glenn

Learning references for OPenGL in Processing
Jul 5^th, 2008, 2:11pm

Hi
Could someone point me to any online beginner's references for learning how to use OpenGL in processing, for example, I only accidently discovered that "hint(ENABLE_OPENGL_4X_SMOOTH)" is how you implement anti aliasing. I couldn't find in any of the Processing documentation any mentnion of this, or anywhere online that explains what 'hints' are. Stuff like this and a reference library of other similar commands would be very useful.

Thanks,

gl.noob

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koogy

Re: Learning references for OPenGL in Processing
Reply #1 - Jul 5^th, 2008, 5:05pm

what have you seen?

http://processing.org/learning/3d/index.html
is all the openGL examples

http://processing.org/reference/hint_.html
is the reference page for hints (they are a bit of a platypus really, don't belong anywhere as they cover opengl, zip files and fonts).

i think the point of processing is that you don't need to know the opengl stuff - you just use the standard line / box / whatever and the opengl renderer translates it into pixels for you.

(if you're keen on learning 'raw' openGL then you're better off using java and jogl in something like netbeans rather than processing, imo. have a look into the jogl versions of the nehe tutorials. google 'nehe jogl')

glenn

Re: Learning references for OPenGL in Processing
Reply #2 - Jul 5^th, 2008, 5:23pm

Thanks Koogs
the hint page was useful (embarassed I didn't know about it)

I thought I was missing out on a whole bunch of sexy GL functions that I wasn't aware of, as I'd seen some code around in the forums with people using direct GL calls.... But hopefully, like you say, I shouldn't need too - I just get on with writing my program.

Cheers,

Glenn.

http://www.butterfly.ie

JohnG Ex Member	Re: Learning references for OPenGL in Processing Reply #3 - Jul 5^th, 2008, 5:30pm There's no reference for the direct OpenGL functions as they're kinda outside the scope of processing itself. You're able to use them, but they're quite advanced, and when you're using them you're probably better off finding information about them from dedicated OpenGL places, rather than here.

memo

Re: Learning references for OPenGL in Processing
Reply #4 - Jul 6^th, 2008, 12:57am

If you are interested in opengl there are some pretty good tutorials here
http://nehe.gamedev.net/

and if you wanna get deeper there is of course the bible:
http://www.opengl.org/documentation/red_book/

which luckily you can find a slightly older version online (covers opengl 1.1, not 2.0)
http://www.glprogramming.com/red/

these cover the concepts of opengl and the opengl API, and you can use pretty much all of it in Java / Processing through jogl by following the instructions halfway down this page (under the advanced section), though it isn't really advised unless you have to (or really want to)...
http://processing.org/reference/libraries/opengl/

glenn Junior Member Offline Posts: 86	Re: Learning references for OPenGL in Processing Reply #5 - Jul 6^th, 2008, 11:32am Thanks for this help guys
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