I take a look at the forum but didn't finding anything about it. In the learning process of OpenGL many tutorials use OpenGL 2.1 (glBegin, glEnd, etc). Is there a way to restrict the available...

In fact, I remember some kind of template like this in VS2005, but, even if VS2010 had one, I'd take BionicBytes advice.

Take a look at this.

Are you sure this was the only reason?

GL_UNSIGNED_INT is defined as 0x1405 and GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT as 0x1403, both are integers, so sizeof will return 4 for both cases.

glutSolidSphere deals with the drawing process of a sphere for you. There is no easy way to capture the mesh generated by this function and pass to a VBO. You going to generate your own sphere...

I may be completely wrong, but I think this extra memory is due to duplicated data that OpenGL may keep in order to be updated frequently. If I was designated to implement this, I would try to do...

If you are able to read vertices and normals why are you having trouble on reading the list of indices?

Yes, that is right. I use this library http://assimp.sourceforge.net/ in order to read .objs and compute tangents and binormals. It is easy to use and it is able to import various commons formats.

Try this one.

http://crytek.com/sites/default/files/sponza_obj.rar
http://crytek.com/sites/default/files/sponza_textures.rar

Open the OBJ file in some modeling program (like blender), isolate...

I use the same code for both windows and mac (of course, checking for OpenGL version) and the context setup is pretty much the same.

I think XCode has nothing to do with the context setup since it...

GLUT is not bad to use. All that Alfonse Reinheart was telling is that GLUT is better for build demos, since it is easy to setup and provides an OpenGL context with a ready-to-draw window. The...

Try the method FloatArray.wrap()

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/nio/FloatBuffer.html#wrap(float[])

thank you very much, this was the answer I was looking for.

I have a quite simple question about using mipmaps and glsl. Just for the record, I never used mipmaps before, but I need to use in my project since I have a quite big textures.

I already know how...

In fact, if you had change to version 150 it will recognize in and out keywords. The problem is that this version is not supported by snow leopard.

Just change the first line from #version 120 to #version 150.
in and out are not defined in GLSL version 120

The problem is that you are using GLSL under Snow Leopard, which does not support GLSL...

Usually when one use an uniform variable wants to change its value at least every rendering call, thats why you are going to see uniforms being set every time. If one does not want to change its...

Ok, looks like I miss a post where this problem was reported

http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=234319

Should I delete this post?

I am having some problems with Framebuffer Objects. Maybe I am missing something. Hope you guys can help me.

I need to render an image to a framebuffer for later use. In order to check if...

Take a look at glRasterPos function

http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/glRasterPos.xml

You define the position in 3D to raster something, and OpenGL will take care of visibility for you.

jpg and png are complex file formats, you gonna need some library to export to these formats.

You can get a OpenGL frame using glReadPixels. Node that glReadPixels gives you raw data. If you need...

AFAIK, points primitives aren't big enoght so they cannot be represented by it's position.

Alfonse is referencing the OpenGL specification
...

Today I was talking with a friend about OpenGL 4 API and how things changed. For example, glBegin and glEnd are deprecated, the fixed function pipeline was removed and we need to do all the...

I'm not sure, but I read somewhere that glutSolidSphere didn't generate texture coordinates. Try glutSolidTeapot(), I'm sure that the teapot have texture coordinates.

First, you need a little bit of knowledge in physics. Second, I don't anyone in here will answer, it is a quite vague question.

How much knowledge do you have about the physics involving your...