Mike Shah

OpenGL Introduction

Feedback and Course Reviews

[Episode 1] Learning OpenGL - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 2] What is OpenGL (The Specification and Some History) - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 3] A Short OpenGL History Lesson - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 4] [Theory] The Programmable Graphics Pipeline (Interview Question) - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 5] [Code] Setup SDL2 and OpenGL and first OpenGL function (glGetString) - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 6] [Theory] Triangles, Vertex Array Object (VAO) and Vertex Buffer Objects - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 7] [Theory] How Shaders are used in the pipeline - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 8] [Help] Docs.gl, the Spec, and the OpenGL man pages - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 9] [Code] First OpenGL Triangle - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 10] [Code Review] First OpenGL Triangle - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 11] OpenGL Objects, Context (through Mesa), and State Machine - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 12] Loading a Shader from a File (Improve workflow on shader code) - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 13] Drawing a colored triangle (using multiple vertex buffer objects) - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 14] Drawing a colored triangle (using single vertex buffer object) - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 15] Rendering a Quad (And Understanding Winding Order) - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 16] Rendering a Quad Again! (More efficient Indexed-Buffer Strategy) - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 17] glError - Debug errors in OpenGL State Machine - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 18] OpenGL Math - Introduction to the GLM Library - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 19] OpenGL Math 1 - Vectors, Dot Product, and Cross Product (with code demonstration)

[Episode 20] OpenGL Math 2 - Matrix Transformations (with GLM code demonstration) - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 21] OpenGL - Putting it all together (SDL2+glad+glm) - Modern OpenGL

[Episode 22] OpenGL - glsl uniform variables (Second mechanism to send data to GPU)

[Episode 23] From Local to World Space (Model Matrix Transformation)

[Episode 24] Projection Matrix and glm::perspective

[Intermission] OpenGL and ChatGPT #shorts

[OpenGL Episode 25] Rotation Matrices (using glm)

[OpenGL Episode 26] Scaling Matrices (glm::scale)

[OpenGL Episode 27] Matrix Transformation Order Matters (Think Concatenation)

[OpenGL Episode 28] [Theory] Gimbal Lock

[OpenGL Episode 29] Quick Fix and Quick Recap

OpenGL [Episode 30] [Theory] The View Matrix

OpenGL [Episode 31] Building The View Matrix with glm::lookat (and moving forward and backwards)

OpenGL [Episode 32] Camera -- first person mouse look

OpenGL [Episode 33] Camera -- first-person movement with right vector

OpenGL [Episode 34] GL_FLOAT enum vs GLfloat type bug fix

OpenGL [Episode 35] Starting Application and Mesh Abstraction Refactor

OpenGL [Episode 36] Mesh Abstraction Refactor Continued -- two quads

OpenGL [Episode 37] Refactoring MeshUpdate and Finding Uniforms

OpenGL Episode 38 Refactoring MeshDraw and our Camera

OpenGL [Episode 39] Adding MeshTranslate, MeshRotate, and MeshScale