My laptop has OpenGL 2.
For now, I just wanna draw and connect vertices, form faces, move or extrude vertices, edges or faces, colour it, save it, open it.
other features down the road:
- rigging and animation.
- movie editing 3d animation movies
- LATER ON: game engine for fighting games / action rpg. usb gamepads and couch-multiplayer, and/or LAN multiplayer, 5vs5, 60 or 120 fps, and maybe online, too.
So, what are my options? freeglut? glfw? allegro??? Pros and cons?
I want to use freeglut if possible, since I already set it up.
But if I can get glfw3 to work, I’ll use that, since it sounds better for a game engine. It’s OpenGL 2 compatible, right?
Can I easily transfer skills from using freeglut (or port freeglut code) to glfw?
Allegro… I don’t know how to set that up :(. Is it OpenGL 2 compatible?
[i]Here’s what I researched:
- Blender and Godot use OpenGL
- freeglut can make the simple 3D modeling app I want :), as well as animation using glRotate…:)?
- use glui for for ui / dialogue boxes
For a game engine:
- glut can only use one single joystick
. What about FREEglut??? - What fps does freeglut go at? My clock app spins once every 48 seconds (and not 60s)
- glut is good for prototyping and adding your own new features.[/i]