Elysian Shadows

Yes, but since the vector (0.0,1.0,0.0) points up, not out toward the viewer, it would rotate around a "pole" going from the top of the screen top to the bottom, which I'm guessing isn't what you're looking to do. Also, using GL_POLYGON instead of GL_QUAD is isn't necessarily a good idea, ...

push and pop operate on the matrix stack, which can be considered a "backlog" of previous matrices. For more information on how stacks like this work: Wikipedia is your friend.

glRotate multiplies the currently selected matrix by a rotation matrix. When called as glRotatef(a,b,c,d), you can conceptually think of this as rotating the current origin a degrees around the vector (b,c,d).

This is a situation that REALLY depends on your usage patterns. As far as I know, most GPUs are optimized for SIMD: single instruction, multiple data. They're extremely good at doing the same thing to a lot of bits of data. So if you're doing a lot of uniform transformations, go for it; but if you'r...

Everything in OpenGL has an X, Y, and Z. The projection matrix usually adds a W (which is technically always there, but isn't really used outside this part of the pipeline), which is then used to convert clip space to normalized device coordinates. Since you seem so interested in the internal workin...

You certainly have a knack for asking questions with complicated answers. :lol: Those three functions are all parts of the vertex pipeline (processing the vertices of the polygon before actually drawing them to the screen). The modelview matrix: This transforms the vertices you put in from "mod...

You are asking a lot of questions, all at once, so I'll try to go through one at a time. How do you start? That's too vague a question to answer, so I'm going to assume it was rhetorical. What goes at the beginning of the program? Whatever you want. But if you want to use OpenGL, you're going to hav...

It's actually possible to avoid cyclic include problems without having to include extra things when you include one. ie., if you just have a .h like this: #ifndef HEADER_H #define HEADER_H class Type; //.... #endif Then when including Header.h, you'd also have to include Type.h to provide the compil...

XLib is the main way to go, but it should be noted that there is an alternative: XCB. I haven't used it personally, but I've heard a lot of people (or at least a few very vocal people ) saying that they prefer it over XLib.

It's ancient greek that I'm dabbling in, and I just got "From Alpha to Omega", the most useful text for the most ancient texts. But for swedish, I may take you up on that offer

Ignore Skomakar'n, he doesn't appreciate the power of wubwubwub. Nice timelapse!

ismetteren is exactly right. When you call an overloaded function, the compiler goes through these steps (or something very similar): 1) if there is an exact match (name + parameters), call it 2) if there is a partial match (name + implicitly convertible parameters), call the best matching one 3) th...

Wow, both of those look... well, beautiful. I'm going to make sure to play them over winter break, provided I don't get distracted by the other games that I've been meaning to play for a while good job guys!

My list:

• English: native
• Japanese: about 2 years on and off, I have a decent grasp but I don't have enough vocabulary yet
• Latin: 1.5 years, learning in school
• Greek: just barely starting to dabble
• Swedish: about the same as Greek

Rebornxeno, I just scanned this thread so I don't know if your problem has been solved, but it sounds to me like you're trying to do something similar to base64 encoding, but a little more generic. You can look up base64 implementations (there are plenty out there) and adapt them for more than one p...