The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Versions 3.0 and 3.1 Dave Shreiner, Bill The Khronos. This section covers the routines defined as the OpenGL extension to the Apple Macintosh (AGL). The OpenGL Programming Guide for Mac OS.
Inside the Xcode IDE, you have access to a lot of material related with programming in Mac OS X, iPhone/iPad. With Xcode 3 Help - Developer Documentation With Xcode 4 Help - Documentation and API reference A window will be open and you will can navigate along a lot of topics. For example, search a document called 'OpenGL Programming Guide for Mac OS X'. The documents can be viewed inside Xcode or downloaded in PDF format. If you didn't know, you can mix code written in Objective-C and C, even in the same file, try to rename a Objective-C file with.m extension to.mm extension. There are many games written in C for Mac OS X and iPhone.
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To make a game in C for Mac OS X, you can do a wrapper mixing C and Objective-C that deals with the OS native calls ( graphics, input, etc. Once this abstraction layer has been constructed, the game can be programmed entirely in C.
Hi guys, I've been looking for Mac specific OpenGL 3.2 tutorials and I'm running into problems. Either the tutorials are Windows based, or they are Objective-C based. I'm looking for a tutorial that is Mac based that uses C so that I can start learning newer OpenGL. I started with the OpenGL SuperBible, but it more or less teaches you their OpenGL wrapper, not OpenGL and thats frustrating and not what I'm after. I now have The OpenGL Programming Guide (Red Book) but its all old OpenGL (as mentioned on Amazon, but I was desperate and ordered it anyway). Swiftless has some awesome tutorials on his site but again, they are Windows based for the newer stuff (since Apple drug its heels with OGL) Does anyone have any suggestions on books, tutorials, or anything I can use to get started on OpenGL 3.2 for mac?
I know there is the documentation but it is a bit over my head at the moment: / I have previous experience with OpenGL 2.1 (not a ton, but I can get what I need done generally) and would like to learn the new pipeline. There are no big single guides for this stuff. You'll have to go to multiple places. The superbible should have the mac start-up code which gets you to the point of having a GL context ready to render into. From there, the GL stuff is common on all platforms. You'll just need to do things like keyboard/mouse handling, but that's a relatively thin layer - my X11/unix version is 1000 lines of code including some big lookup tables for the keys. The mac docs will have this in them - although my copy of the superbible has enough stuff to run with.
As for being all 3.2ey. Create VBOs, stuff data into them, create shaders, run shaders.
That's pretty much it really. People keep making it out to be a bigger thing than it is. Hi guys, I've been looking for Mac specific OpenGL 3.2 tutorials and I'm running into problems. Either the tutorials are Windows based, or they are Objective-C based. I'm looking for a tutorial that is Mac based that uses C so that I can start learning newer OpenGL. I started with the OpenGL SuperBible, but it more or less teaches you their OpenGL wrapper, not OpenGL and thats frustrating and not what I'm after. I now have The OpenGL Programming Guide (Red Book) but its all old OpenGL (as mentioned on Amazon, but I was desperate and ordered it anyway).
Swiftless has some awesome tutorials on his site but again, they are Windows based for the newer stuff (since Apple drug its heels with OGL) Does anyone have any suggestions on books, tutorials, or anything I can use to get started on OpenGL 3.2 for mac? I know there is the documentation but it is a bit over my head at the moment: / I have previous experience with OpenGL 2.1 (not a ton, but I can get what I need done generally) and would like to learn the new pipeline. Look at this Tutorial. It is C and pretty good. For Mac specific context creation: The only difference is the creation of the context. Everything else is the very same on all OS. A uselful library for loading the core: That should get you started.
If you run into problem with context creation, just use freeglut or SDL 1.3. OpenGL 3.2 Core Profile is very new to the Mac, I wouldn't bet on any tutorials online yet that are specific to the Mac — I've been stuff porting from 2.1 to the 3.2 Core Profile since the release of Lion, so I feel your pain, I would recommend which is OpenGL 4.0, but most of the code is 3.2/3.3 compliant. Also, Apple has updated a few of their OpenGL samples on their documentation site, this one is specific to the new stuff http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#samplecode/GLEssentials/Introduction/Intro.html#//appleref/doc/uid/DTS40010104.