ac101m / gltools

A simple helper library to make writing opengl applications easier.

gltools

A simple opengl framework for quickly chucking 3D things on the screen.

It can:

• Make your windows
• Compile your shaders
• Cache your shader program uniform assignments
• Load your texture files (and cache them)
• Compute your tangent space basis vectors
• Manage your view and projection matrices
• Render to your textures

It cannot:

• Cook your dinner

Planned future features:

• Defaults for missing textures
• Updatable vertex buffers
• Better context creation and management
• Model loading
• Built in camera control schemes

Note: Uniform set methods are declared, see include/GLT/Uniform.hpp. Only a few currently have implementations though; fvec3, fmat3, fmat4 & float. Implementations can be found in src/shader/Uniform.cpp.

Build instructions:

This is not a complete library, lots of bits are missing. Only bother with it if it is required by something else. You have been warned.

You will need:

• GNU make
• A working installation of GCC (you'll need to modify the makefile to use another compiler)
• A Linux OS, you probably may be able to build it under windows using MinGW, but I haven't tried. Best of luck to you.
• OpenGL framework 3 (Package name: libglfw3-dev)
• OpenGL extension wrangler (Package name: libglew2.0)

Once all that is done, start the build by navigating to the root of the source tree and running make lib your libraries and headers will appear in bin/install.