Ars Technica

OpenGL vs Direct3D : Drawing translucent polygons

so I'm playing with OpenGL again, and it seems that if I want to draw translucent objects in my 3D scene I have to manualy work out the drawing order myself beforehand so that the nearer objects are ...
Ars Technica

VLC performance - using OpenGL for image drawing

I've been working on VLC for a couple of years and, for the last few days, I'm working on a new OpenGL video output to replace the current one (which uses QuickTime to render the picture on the screen ...
gamedev

OpenGL: A simple C++ memory manager for triangle mesh data (that allows for very few draw calls, even just 1) -- Part 1

Today, i'm going to show you how to write a simple memory manager for managing OpenGL mesh data. The OpenGL requirements for this are relatively simple, and you'll need the following: -The byte size ...
Dark Side Of Gaming

DirectX & OpenGL catching up with Mantle, will offer low-level access to reduce draw overhead

Huge news PC gamers. While Nvidia has not commented yet on supporting Mantle, it appears that both DirectX and OpenGL will be catching up with AMD’s API. According to some slideshows from this year’s ...
gamedev

SFML C# OpenGL. Draw a triangle using shaders

We will use OpenTK 4 version because it supports .NET Core. using SFML.Window; using SFML.Graphics; using SFML.System; using OpenToolkit.Graphics.OpenGL; using ...