Need some advice for OpenGL

[Cybermonkey]

Oh, best for all platforms: Linux, Windows, MacOS X.

[code_glitch]

In that case youd either have to use glut or sdl for easy window handling. However if the objective is pure opengl from the ground up you'll unfortunately have to write code for each of those platforms. Good luck - some of the code you have to interface with can be a little archaic at times....

[WILL]

If those are your main or only platforms then SDL is probably your easiest and friendliest solution. I'm not partial to GLUT myself and it doesn't do everything that SDL is going to do for you. (controller/gamepad input, audio/music mixer, some texture loading routines)

Once you have a decent SDL base to work with the rest can be all OpenGL for your graphics. The NeHe tutorials can help you get started, but I'm not sure if they cover using SDL with OpenGL. SDL is in fact designed to use OpenGL instead for graphics, that's why they bundle it together.

[code_glitch]

The friends of fpc site has a section on starting out with the opengl/sdl combo if I recall

[WILL]

Also, since we've gone through several years and different approaches to OpenGL over those years, take care to notice the date of that information. There may be more accurate or up to date literature about OpenGL for Free Pascal, Delphi or other tools. If you want the latest and greatest OpenGL stuff though, I'd recommend following Sascha Willems who run his own blog and the DelphiGL.com community for German Pascal game developers.

[Cybermonkey]

Okay, thanks guys. A lot of things to pay attention to ...

[User137]

I have always wondered why they made it German programming community. Don't they think there *might* be some pascal game developers outside their country?