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OpenGL ES

• http://www.khronos.org/opengles/
• http://www.khronos.org/developers/resources/
• http://www.khronos.org/developers/resources/opengles/
• http://www.opengl.org/documentation/specs/
• Good practice video from Khronos Group
• QNX NeHe Tutorials port

Specifications

• OpenGL ES full spec 1.1.12
• The OpenGL® ES Shading Language

Reference manuals

• OpenGL 1.0|ES
• OpenGL 1.1|ES
• OpenGL 2.0|ES

On Symbian

Discussions about openGL ES and Symbian native graphic formats.

GLU

• Source code: http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=457140
• http://glues.googlecode.com/

GLUT ES

• http://glutes.sourceforge.net/

Binaries & SDKs

• OpenGL ES 1.1 Rasteroid
• PowerVR SDKs

Extensions

• http://www.grinninglizard.com/kyra/api/index.html

Tutorials

• http://www.khronos.org/developers/resources/opengles/
• http://www.morrowland.com/apron/tut_gl.php
• http://www.typhoonlabs.com/
• http://www.falloutsoftware.com/tutorials/gl/gl0.htm
• http://www.cs.usask.ca/undergrads/aam396/opengl/

• OpenGL Texture Mapping: An Introduction by Nate Miller
• Drawing Primitives in OpenGL
• Skybox tutorial
• Tutorials with some water rendering too

• HLSL Shader tutorial

• Dephi OpenGL examples
• http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/05/opengl-es-from-ground-up-table-of.html
• Lens Flare

Books

• The famous red book

Fixed Point Math

http://www.grinninglizard.com/kyra/api/glfixed_8h-source.html

3D modeler

• http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Sculpted_Prims:_3d_Software_Guide
• http://www.imagewaredev.com
• http://chumbalum.swissquake.ch/ms3d/tutorials.html : MilkShape 3D Symbian sample.

3D model file formats

• http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/

Free 3D Models

• http://www.psionic3d.co.uk

OpenGL font

• http://www.opengl.org/resources/features/fontsurvey/

Bitmap font

Font tutorials

• Nehe Outline Font tutorial

Font tools

• bmfont: supports Unicode and Outlines.
• Fixed character height bitmap fonts generator CBFG.
• http://www.stefan-pettersson.nu/site/bmpfont/
• http://www.lmnopc.com/bitmapfontbuilder/

Bitmap font implementation

• http://www.bramstein.nl/gui/fontengine.html

Model loader

MilkShape model loader tutorial:

• http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/lesson.asp?lesson=31
• Discussion about how to create tightly packed array to render model using glDrawElements from MS3D file
• Symbian 3DS loader

Benchmark

• http://www.glbenchmark.com/result.jsp
• http://www.glbenchmark.com/result.jsp?orderby=fps10

Code Sample

Error checking

#define glError() { for(long err = glGetError(); err; err = glGetError()) { fprintf(stderr, "glError: %s caught at %s:%u\n", (char*)gluErrorString(err), __FILE__, __LINE__); }}

Open Scene Graph

• http://www.openscenegraph.org

Other tools

• http://gpwiki.org/index.php/Tools:Content
• Shading Languages Syntax Highlighter for VisualStudio

Todos

• Look into motion blur

Examples & Source code

• Earth simulation and other stuff
• Quite a few OpenGL source
• Image manipulation, water effect etc..

Papers

• http://www.sjbaker.org/steve/omniv/alpha_sorting.html
• Projection Matrix Tricks

Blend, depth, alpha & quad

• http://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/594450

Projections

• Projections in OpenGL. Contains also information about orthographic projection for isometric game.