Tutorials

Overview

This page indexes into user-submitted OpenGL tutorials. Please create your tutorials as a page linked off of this page.

General

• Tutorial: OpenGL 3.0 Context Creation (GLX)
• Tutorial: OpenGL 3.1 The First Triangle (C++/Win)

Picking

• Tutorial: My really cool picking tutorial
• Tutorial: My much cooler picking tutorial

OpenGL Windows

These tutorials should explain how to create windows that OpenGL can render into under various operating systems and windowing platforms.

• Tutorial: OpenGL in GLX (X11)
• Tutorial: OpenGL in Windows
• Tutorial: OpenGL in Mac OS X

OpenGL 3.2 Core Profile

These tutorials focus on programming the OpenGL 3.2 Core Profile.

• Tutorial1: Creating a Cross Platform OpenGL 3.2 Context in SDL (C / SDL)
• Tutorial2: VAOs, VBOs, Vertex and Fragment Shaders (C / SDL)
• Tutorial3: Rendering 3D Objects (C /SDL)
• Tutorial4: Geometry Shaders (C /SDL)