Re: [Glsdk-devel] Tutorials

[Branan R. <br...@gm...>]

Rob's getting a digest, so I think he's just following our progress for now

I can write the _code_ for a triangle tutorial, but I'm not all that
great at explaining things, as I'm sure some of you have figured out
by now.

Branan

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Henri Häkkinen <hen...@gm...> wrote:
> Someone has posted us a suggestion in the OpenGL forums for the first
> tutorial:
>
> http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=245033&Main=47674#Post245033
>
> I think we should begin to put more effort on making actual tutorials,
> reference manuals, programming guides etc. than what we are now having. The
> first tutorial (drawing a simple triangle) should be quite trivial without
> the need of mathlib (although which is already quite complete) or shapelib.
> The lack of GLFW GL3 support does put us on akward situation, but what I
> haved talked with the GLFW guys, they are putting a full effort to it.
>
> Is there anyone who would be interested on writing stuff for this? Because
> without the tutorials and other documentation, we will not be able to put
> this SDK through. Rob, you have been quiet for long time. Are you still with
> us? Anyone else?
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Jason McKesson <ko...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Actually, that reminds me (I generated that list basically off the
>> cuff). Rather than a "my first cube", we should do a whole tutorial on
>> the different kinds of primitives: triangle strips, lists, fans, etc.
>>
>> Also, we should have a tutorial on map buffer (specifically map buffer
>> range, once conformant drivers are more prevelant), for dealing with
>> dynamic geometry. This would probably be after Transform&Camera, but
>> before normals and per-vertex lighting.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Andrew Gajda <and...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>> > I would insert either after #1 or after #2:
>> > My first cube: Hello 3D world!
>> >
>> > It's the perfect lead-in to camera/perspective/normals but (slightly)
>> > more
>> > complicated than a single triangle.  Might be good to note when the
>> > GLShape
>> > library starts to be used.  Right after getting a triangle displayed?
>> >  Once
>> > texture mapping is involved?  Maybe the cube tutorial explains what's
>> > involved in a cube (beyond the triangle tutorial) then shows the
>> > beginner
>> > how to do the same thing using the GLShape library.
>> >
>> > pudman
>> >
>> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Jason McKesson <ko...@gm...>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> To me, the most important thing about tutorials is this: they're tools
>> >> for teaching. Which means that they need to be laid out in a specific
>> >> order (increasing complexity) and with specific intents in mind. Which
>> >> means that for the initial tutorials, we should sit down and decide
>> >> what the initial tutorials ought to be. We don't necessarily have to
>> >> write them ourselves, but we should define what their topics are.
>> >>
>> >> I was thinking something on the order of this:
>> >>
>> >> 1: My first triangle: Hello-world for graphics.
>> >> 2: Transformation and Camera
>> >> 3: Normals and Per-vertex lighting
>> >> 4: Per-fragment lighting
>> >> 5: Texture mapping
>> >> 6: Framebuffer blending
>> >> 7: Point-sprites
>> >> 8: Render-to-texture
>> >> 9: Depth, order, and blending: Introducing the depth buffer and
>> >> dealing with alpha blending with lots of objects.
>> >>
>> >> The idea being that each tutorial builds on the other, introducing new
>> >> complexity to the previous one.
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