Future of GLGraphics?

afreise

in Contributed Library Questions • 2 years ago

I am wondering in which direction I should develop some of my OPENGL sketches.

I had started to use the GLGraphics library in some sketches because I notices that using the texture commands of the library was much faster than using image related commands with the OPENGL renderer (I have not managed to try the OPENGL2 renderer yet).

What will happen to GLGraphics? Will it be co-existing to the new OPENGL renderer in Processing 2.0? This is related of course to the question of what new features the new OPENGL renderer has.

Andreas

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andres

Re: Future of GLGraphics?

2 years ago

Hi,

The plan is to release a GLGraphics 2.0 version that will work along the new OPENGL2 renderer in Processing 2.0.

The 0.9.x versions will continue to run in Processing < 2 . To conclude with this branch, I'd like to make a 1.0 release not too far in the future, incorporating a few additional examples, better documentation and minor fixes and API revisions. After this I'll focus entirely on OPENGL2/GLGraphics2.

At this point I cannot provide specific details about the new GLGraphics, but I think that all the main classes you currently find in GLGraphics 0.9.x (GLTexture, GLTextureFilter, etc) will continue to exist in 2.0, hopefully with substantial improvements in usability and/or performance.

Andres

afreise

Re: Future of GLGraphics?

2 years ago

Thank you Andres!

This is all good news. I am looking forward to playing more with the new versions. For the moment I will continue my (very simple) GLGraphics experiments with Processing 1.2.1. And BTW, very good work!

Andreas

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