Tutorials

Overview

This page indexes into user-submitted OpenGL tutorials. Please create your tutorials as a page linked off of this page. Additional third party tutorials are listed on the OpenGL Getting Started page.

General

• Tutorial: OpenGL 3.0 Context Creation (GLX)
• Tutorial: OpenGL 3.1 The First Triangle (C++/Win)

OpenGL Windows

These tutorials should explain how to create windows that OpenGL can render into under various operating systems and windowing platforms.

• Tutorial: OpenGL in GLX (X11)
• Tutorial: OpenGL in Windows
• Tutorial: OpenGL in Mac OS X

OpenGL Java

These tutorials teach OpenGL for those who know Java, using the JOGL bindings for OpenGL.

• Tutorial: Setting up OpenGL in Java
• Tutorial: Drawing 2D Shapes
• Tutorial: Adding Colour
• Tutorial: 3D Shapes and Rotation

OpenGL 3.2 Core Profile

These tutorials focus on programming the OpenGL 3.2 Core Profile.

• Tutorial1: Creating a Cross Platform OpenGL 3.2 Context in SDL (C / SDL)
• Tutorial2: VAOs, VBOs, Vertex and Fragment Shaders (C / SDL)
• Tutorial3: Rendering 3D Objects (C /SDL)
• Tutorial4: Using Indices and Geometry Shaders (C /SDL)