I’m from a designer background (but interested in learning coding), and I’m very interested in creating OpenGL demos & screensavers. What do i need to know first about OpenGL, and what should I use to start?
Hi !
I think you should learn a programming language first, it could be tricky to try to learn both OpenGL and a programming language at the same time.
If you are into screensavers and things like that you should consider C/C++ I guess (not the best language to start out with though).
There are lots of tutorials on OpenGL, search for “opengl tutorial” on google.
Mikael
Originally posted by Darkman:
I’m from a designer background (but interested in learning coding), and I’m very interested in creating OpenGL demos & screensavers. What do i need to know first about OpenGL, and what should I use to start?
there are really a lot of tutorials out there. one very good place is at NeHe (left -> opengl tutorials). try them.
hf
ghostdog
also www.gametutorials.com they went to .NET but you can still read the code and run the executables.