Modern OpenGL: Introduction

• Introduction
• Advanced Rendering and Effects
• Advanced Pipeline and Performance

This training provides a comprehensive introduction to modern OpenGL development. Beginning with the basic concepts, all the fundamental topics to develop flexible, high performance OpenGL code that run on the desktop and embedded / mobile devices will be covered. Key techniques including lighting, texturing, framebuffer objects and transformations are introduced, in a format suitable for any developer working in C or C++.

Course Contents

• Basic OpenGL window and context management
• The modern OpenGL pipeline
• Rendering geometry with GLSL shaders and vertex buffer objects
• Transformations and coordinate systems, projection and camera handling
• Fundamentals of lighting including the standard Phong model
• Using textures to increase quality and flexibility, including multi-texturing
• Working with frame-buffer-objects (FBOs)

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Course Information

• Target audience: Developers who want to start working with hardware-accelerated graphics, or update their OpenGL knowledge based on current best practices
• Prerequisite: This course is suitable for developers with no prior graphics experience, but familiarity with C and/or C++ is necessary
• Duration: 3 Days

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