A lightweight OpenGL-based 3D graphics application built from scratch in C++
As a part of our Software Engineering Fellowship, we had 10 weeks to learn a brand new technology and create a capstone project with it. I decided to diverge from the web development I'd have spent the last 10 months learning to dive deeper into low-level programming. I've always been fascinated with game development, and making something in that realm was my main motivator behind going down this route. I started out by learning C, and once I had a handle on the basics I moved onto picking up C++. Eventually came time to pick up OpenGL (a graphics library I had chosen for being an industry standard) and used that alongside GLFW to manage windows and OpenGL contexts, Glad to manage function pointers for OpenGL, and later incorporated GLM, a C++ math library for OpenGL's shading language.
While this is a small project, it shows a commitment to self learning! This project was tough for me! But I was able to pull through, and learn so many new concepts in such a short amount of time.
Presentation Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KO9wPCWXOwfeYVaQ4cV5OP2ssWn4ZD9pixSIIrQd90w
This was originally built on Windows 10 on Visual Studio, but I had issues compiling a release executable. Since I use Linux 24/7 nowadays, I've made it to now compile with only CMake, making it crossplatform and portable, also squashing any bugs I didn't resolve previously. I mostly just did this to have an actual binary to share, for portfolio purposes.
Dependencies:
- CMake
- C++17
- OpenGL 3.3+
- GLFW
- GLM
Linux:
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..
$ makeWindows:
COMING SOON-
W, A, S, D— Move camera -
Mouse Left Button+ Move — Look around -
Space / Left Ctrl— Move up/down -
Left Shift— Increase movement speed -
ESC— Close the window -
R— Rename the window
Technically, you can replace aigis.png with any file of the same name. So, you can add your own custom png texture this way!