Recently I have been trying to adapt Neon Helium's OpenGL tutorials to OneSadCookie's GLUT environment... without much luck. It would appear that the NeHe tutorials are partially dependant on windows specific code.

Are there any tutorials out there that cover beginner/intermediate things like loading pictures using GLUT?

I'm not talking about the absolute basics, I can already make an OpenGL window (thanks to OSC's tutorial).

But I hunger for more!

Any links would be nice!

'Jones

On the Nehe Codes scroll down to the bottom and download the Mac OS or the Mac OS X code for that project.

If you can spare the change, go out and get yourself a copy of the OpenGL SuperBible. Probably the most accessible reference out there, at elast for starting. The RedBook is good too, but I think the SuperBible will get you up and running faster. Then you can go and understand all that stuff over at NeHe.

Cheers.

kodex Wrote:On the Nehe Codes scroll down to the bottom and download the Mac OS or the Mac OS X code for that project.

Unfortunatly, Mac OS is outdated, and the Mac OS X comes with all that cocoa crap, which OneSadCookies tutorial does not use (Thank god!).

Call me stupid if you wish, but I still think that Cocoa is an overcomplicated language.

Glut will only take you so far. On a mac you will most likely end up using Carbon or Cocoa. Cocoa was easier for me to learn but lacked a lot of the power I was looking for. Carbon seemed a bit hard to learn at first but once you get into it, it'll come pretty quickly to you.

Ha-hah! My friend, this is where AppleScript takes control.

Just use applescript to read in the users display settings, or whatever you want, and pass it to your C code.

No complicated carbon OR cocoa needed!

Can AppleScript actually be used to pass any sort of image data to your code? I remember you asking about loading images into GLUT and I was just curious if/how you got that done.

Jones Wrote:Call me stupid if you wish...

Not stupid, just not educated enough on the subject to be throwing that kind of judgement around just yet. You have a lot of things to learn about the art of programming still. It will all come in time. Until then, I would encourage you to patiently study more and read carefully the excellent and knowledgeable advice offered around these digs. Get in the habit of clicking on "search" more than "post".