How you can start learning OpenGL

Learning OpenGL can be difficult, in this video, I'll give you all the resources that you need.
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[@randomnessnecesity9627]

This channel is criminally underrated. This video and the one about getting started with game dev in c++ are the precise things I been looking for! Thank you for the quality content and I hope your channel grows quickly!

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

Thanks a lot man man, it will grow and we will both see that soon 🙏. I'm glad I was able to help.

[@randomnessnecesity9627]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 here we are, roughly 1k subs later! good job bro, though I can't say your growth was a surprise. your videos are a massive inspiration to me and many others, and I wish you the best in your future projects!

[@BobrLovr]

He's really hard to understand, i can see why it's not that popular

[@IamtheIam69]

@@BobrLovr turn CC on! He's awesome!

[@elcoquilletos9524]

We see a lot of tutorial and other but we rarely see someone that give to us a summary of best videos or article to begin to learn. It's very cool and helpful for us and the videos or articles concerned. Big big thanks bro

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

Yes, there are a lit of very very good tutorials so it would be best to point people towards them rather than making an inferior one

[@mrbranmar]

This has been very helpful for my graphics and visualization class. Thank you 😊

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

glad to hear that 💪

[@Levi-qm5cg]

Making graphics engines and games with low level tools is so badass. It's something I wanted to try before but I felt incapable of. And I would default to trying a commercial game engines again. But your video has inspired me to make another attempt at graphics APIs. Thank you for listing all of these resources, and sharing the projects you have made

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

I'm glad I was able to help you, good luck 💪

[@gamedevpobre]

im 14, you inspired me to make my own game engine, i will use c++, sdl and maybe opengl

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

sounds nice 💪💪

[@gamedevpobre]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 thank you!

[@undead7594]

Your voice reminds me of ezio Auditore😊 Your content is amazing, super helpful btw

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

thank youu 💪💪

[@va1iduser682]

Honestly not a critisism but i wish i could understand your accent better, you provide such wonderful content but at times its hard to understand.

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

I'll do my best to improve it, thanks for the feedback

[@ameerikbal8160]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 please add subtitles that would be enough.

[@maxrinehart4177]

​@@ameerikbal8160 youtube generated sub are good enough if you really struggle with his voice.

[@papermaker107]

Skill issue

[@rhakka]

Not as hard to understand as some creators, but it’s a struggle. I agree though, the value of the content makes it very much worth the effort to understand the occasionally very strong accent. 😁 Even when I think the content doesn’t apply to me, I will watch all of it just to pick up some great tips.

[@DuartesaoPedro-l8r]

Thanks for this tutorial, well today i made my first cube and anyone who is new and want to get started i highly recommend to watch cherno tutorial first, even though cherno only teaches basic but he teaches them well so that after you go to jamie tutorial its very easy, if you directly go to jamie then you might not understand everything.

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

yes that is a good tip, I would agree, good luck bro 💪💪 I'm happy to hear you got to 3D

[@finlaymartins272]

Great video, you are a smart guy! The audio is a bit quiet though.

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

thank you, and yes it is kinda quiet but I am trying to improve that 💪

[@NoVIcE_Source]

ThinMatrix's videos is what helped me understand how to get started!

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

yes that guy is the best

[@NoVIcE_Source]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 "hello everyone and welcome to this week's lightweight java game library 3d game tutorial" nostalgia :D

[@finskar18]

For me opengl seemed impossible to learn, but at some point it just sorta clicked. No idea what I did different that time, but ever since I have understood opengl enough to make simple graphics programs with it.

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

I'm glad you didn't give up and managed to make your first program 💪 Keep growing!

[@nerts4720]

thx you mate, you made it so easy ^^))

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

glad it helped 💪🙏

[@crabsoft]

I'm so tired of the companies and the overhead involved in doing anything these days. I think you've convinced me to just go for it.

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

nice 💪💪 I hope you will get far 💪

[@saltybaguette7683]

Top notch video!

[@AdanSendo]

dude you should make a tutorial series of 3D game dev with Opengl

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

I was considering that but it would take a long time so probably not yet. Also Jamie King's tutorial on opengl is preety good so I was thinking rather to make a starting tutorial to help people even more with the first steps of opengl because those are preety difficult to understand.

[@mikoseru5569]

great video as always! quick question: how long did it take you to become this capable?

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

thank you for the nice comment, what are you refering at tho when you say capable? video quality or programming?

[@mikoseru5569]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 I meant at OpenGL & programming in general. I know it's a hard question to answer cz it depends from a developer to developer. But how long did It take you personally to become good at it and make stuff like your personal game engine...etc

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

@@mikoseru5569 Well lets say 7 years but the most progress happened when I had someone to give me a good direction (he recomended me to watch handmade hero for example). But I get better and better every year and there are many many more things to learn.

[@levmurflatazara1168]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 WOW bro... I started watching Handmade Hero a month ago... This project gathered so many people and even created kinda a fandom (well it's already dead but anyway)! This is so cool and magical in some sense

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

@@levmurflatazara1168 Yes, I like it because you can learn so many things and I have yet to find a better resource for learning programming than that series.

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

I've been wanting to do something other than console applications for a couple of _years_ now, but I've never been able to figure out how to even _get started_ with using any graphics APIs, recently trying to look up tutorials on how to use OpenGL. I was shocked with how much needs to be done just to get it to do _anything,_ even considering how low-level C++ is. This video looks more promising than everything else I've looked at, but then again considering how poorly everything else has done I still don't have very high hopes.

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

don't worry bro you will make it! Don't forget that I also have some videos to help you with the opengl setup on visual studio and cmake 💪💪

[@georgiosdoumas2446]

If you just want to do desktop applications , and not specifically games or graphics, then just learn Qt6 (there are good books about Qt4 and Qt5 , and books about Qt6 start to appear from 2023)

[@and_then_I_whispered]

Man, I hate math, even though I'm good at it. I mean, I don't know how math really works in real life, they just taught us how to solve math problems. 3blueBrown explains but very few things. Is there any other channel or resources, that explains everything visually?

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

Hm besides 3blue one brown I don't know any other channel that is this good but there are some, I'll reply to this comment if I ever find any but I'll give you this link untill than kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zp7IZJqrltqkhbc

[@and_then_I_whispered]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 Thnx bro :)

[@and_then_I_whispered]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 Also keep up the spirit to make more videos. Most programmers needs this kinda content 👍.

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

also, handmade hero has some videos where he talks abut some basic math for game dev but it is more of a overview kzbin.info/www/bejne/jX-WkJeVhsh9kKc also this is usefull kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoHJqZ2Ha9ikqMU

[@Shadowfeather-sb4vc]

I think idea is to emotionally deattach for liike a month like code act as if you understand what you are doing, code along literally everything and eventually it wil lstick.

[@hodayfa000h]

Why... is this true?

[@imp4ctxd]

Why so low comments? Time to fix that

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

Thx 💪

[@dec_ves2190]

is the ball game open source? I would love to take a look on how you made it, and also so people can learn off of it!

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

yes you can find it on github, but since it is my first 3D project it is not necessarily a good learning resource 😂😂 github.com/meemknight/ToyCeption

[@dec_ves2190]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 thank you so much dude! Trust me the more the merrier

[@higgsboson6274]

I am preety comfortable with SFML , now it's time to go one layer back

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

yess let's goo 💪💪

[@tm---]

Me as a total beginner, should I go the engine route first and learn basics of game development and make games, Or start with learning c++ and stuff 🤔

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

Well it really depends on what are your end goals. I learned the basics of game developement by making my own engines 😂. The idea is that if you want to make games start with an engine. If you want to learn to code better, learn c++ and other related stuff because it will take a lot of work to make a game from scratch with no experience.

[@tm---]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 I found your content very helpful 👍 and thanks for your reply

[@georgiosdoumas2446]

I recommend to learn C++ first, a good free source is "Thinking in C++" volume 1 and some parts of volume 2 , you can find it in a zip file for free in the internet, and extract it and have it in html format and read it from your browser. But this was from 2004. So you also need something else for modern C++11 and later versions, I recommend the book "introduction to programming with C++ for engineers" , 2020.

[@le0ssa]

I recommend the OpenGL playlist from Mike Shah kzbin.info/aero/PLvv0ScY6vfd9zlZkIIqGDeG5TUWswkMox

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

didn't know about it thanks 💪

[@tm---]

I also came across monogame, how is it?

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

I haven't tried it.

[@felix-zp4ie]

hi im wondering if i should learn C#, c++ or something else i started learning coding through roblox (it uses lua) but id like to move on from that and make a more independent game detached from roblox with more freedom over the things i can implement since roblox is a very restrictive platform in alot of ways. im not sure where to start though

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

I don't honestly like c# for game dev but I would say that it really depends on wjat you want to do. If you just want to make games learn an engine + its programming language. If you want to make more than that learn cpp

[@felix-zp4ie]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 what do you mean by more than that?

[@hugueskir6203]

Any thoughts on using with Rust instead of C++ ?

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

I don't personally think Rust is a good choice for game developement. It is very restrictive and that is good for complicated systems but from my experience c++ seems to work well for gamedevelopement as long as you don't use oop and other stuff like this and don't do templates too much. Rust is a very complex language like c++ and I don't like that. I would rather use zig if I were to use something else for game dev

[@NexushasTaken]

The only part that stops me from learning OpenGL was Math, I'm really bad at Math specially with Algebra Topics. some topics i do understand in Math but when i didn't comprehend some certain things, i easily give up. furthermore: Just for example, in trigonometry, i do understand how sin and cos works, and how to use them, one of their use was in coordinate system, sin is for y and cos is for x, but when it comes to other functions like tan, cosecant etc... i don't really get it, it feels like it doesn't make any sense to me.

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

you should find some peopme that know how to explain those concepts. For opengl I recomand jamie king and for math in general 3blue one brown 💪

[@hodayfa000h]

As a guy who was in the same position, I recommend you try to sit and reason about it, get a paper and a pen, it doesn't matter just try to see "why" and eventually? It will somehow make you understand how it works, just try to... visualize it yourself, occasionally seeing tutorials

[@akhons007]

Just wondering if it is possible to make a 3d game like yours in a month? I already know some basic opengl functions.

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

if you are very confortable with opengl a simple game yes. It really depends on your level. If there are all things that you have already done yes, otherwise it will take more time

[@adrielbradley6677]

I started the Cherno tutorial but when I set up GLFW I get a warning that says: "LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'MSVCRT' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library" Do you know what this is or how to fix it? I looked it up online but I don't really understand it. Great video btw It's very inspiring when I'm feeling frustrated at the moment haha

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

yes so you have to go to your project link settings and change the runtime library that you use. So for release if you use multi threaded dll change it to the non dll version and vice versa. This is in my oppinion a horrible way of setting up stuff however, check out my cmake tutorial, the second github link in that video has a project configured with ALL the things that you need (including sound) all you have to do is clone the repo and you are done

[@adrielbradley6677]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 Thank you! Yes that worked perfectly. Once I get through some tutorials I'll check out your starter project too, that sounds very convenient.

[@RosiFrutuoso]

I tought It was Just #include opengl And then run the gl code It só much harder bruh

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

Yep :))

[@cyancaelus6456]

WebGL?

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

Vanila Opengl but switching to webgl should be easy once you know opengl

[@cyancaelus6456]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 I Use WebGL for Making My Dream 3D Game Engine Graphics I Wanna Write in Scheme Programming Language

[@sxrevived1087]

this video need a remake cant hear anything

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

sorry about that. I'm still learning about doing proper audoi, I'll add subtitels to old videos when I have time

[@eprst0]

I think Raylib is better than Sfml

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

yes defenetly but sfml is also an easy to use option.

[@linovermac]

Please source code github link you graphics engine :)

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

ok so this is the 3D graphics library github.com/meemknight/gl3d this is rhe 2D one github.com/meemknight/gl2d and here is the engine github.com/meemknight/PikaEngine

[@linovermac]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 Thank you very much, remember!!! the material benefit will return to you like a return operator ;)

[@undeadpresident]

I enjoyed programming until I started learning OpenGL.

[@totallynuts7595]

Let's be real for a second, becaude you are a bit dishonest about how used OpenGL is. Doom 2016 allows you to switch between vulkan, directx and opengl, in order to be compatible with a buch of different hardware. Nearly every graphics card supports (or used to support, Apple might have stopped doing it) some version of OpenGL, same with DirectX. Vulkan is the newest, but most likely it has the support now. OpenGL is overall the least used in the industry because it's the slowest, but it's the simplest in terms of code.

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

I,m not sure if it is the least used in the industry, it might be, tho on web for example it still is the only option since webgpu is still not well suported. But I don't care if it is the least used, my point is that it isn't doscontinued and you won't have problems using it. www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_OpenGL_games

[@totallynuts7595]

@@lowlevelgamedev9330 No, it isn't discontinued, it probably won't be for years to come, but even on your source there, just the games with Direct3D9 number about 3000 to OpenGL's 1600. That's across all versions of opengl, a single version of Direct3D has that beat. Anyway, I left my comment only to draw attention to the fact OpenGL is an exception in the games industry. I love it, I use it, I just want to do my best to communicate accurate information. PS: Why bring up web? Your whole 'shtick' is low level and C++, right?

[@moonshot3159]

brotherman your mumbling is so difficult to understand you should consider putting subtitles :(

[@lowlevelgamedev9330]

yes I know, I'll add them at some point

[@PassTheBoof]

an easier solution would just be to talk more clearly lol @@lowlevelgamedev9330

[@marcin8680]

If I can recommend something it would to not start with the modern OpenGL, instead start with the fixed pipeline OpenGL 2.0, the reason for that is that the 3D math is complicated enough that you should focus on that as much as possible and having to deal with the complicated setup, boilerplate code and shaders at the same will make things much more difficult, get familiar with vectors, matrices, transformations, frustums and the basic concepts of rendering to the point that you are comfortable with using it, only then switch to shaders. Also consider using something like Rust instead of C++, it'll make the setup so much easier, with glfw-rs and glad for example.

[@mysta3152]

could you elaborate on why you'd want to use Rust?