I'm trying to draw a rainbow-coloured plot legend in openGL. Here is what I've got so far: glBegin(GL_QUADS); for (int i = 0; i != legendElements; ++i) { GLfloat const cellColorIntensity = (GLflo...

I am working on a Mac, I've got FreeGlut compiled and installed, but I can't seem to get the OpenGL 3.2 context with it. However, I can get it without any problem while using GLFW. So in GLFW, this...

I am learning OpenGL with the help of tutorials found online. Many of them use GLUT library, even though it is generally recommended to use freeglut instead. How will replacing GLUT header file wit...

I am running Ubuntu 13.10 and trying to compile that portion of sample OpenGL code: #include "GL/freeglut.h" #include "GL/gl.h" /* display function - code from: http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~unreal/ther...

I'm using mac os 10.9, I have a C++ program that uses freeglut library. When I try to make the project. It gives an error which I don't know if it's my fault or not. This is the message: In file in...

I'm trying to read some OpenGL tutorials on the net. the problem is that I found some old ones that use gluPerspective(). gluPerspective was deprecated in OpenGL 3.0 and removed in 3.1. What funct...

I'm new to this site, and relatively new to programming. I've been doing some C++ programming for a while using Visual Studio 2010, and I wanted to get into OpenGL, so I bought the OpenGL Superbibl...

I'm pretty new to opengl and I don't really understand what's going on here. I'm trying to use two VAOs to create multiple objects and am using a custom matrix to rotate/translate them. The image i...

I've started practicing OpenGL with Glew and Freeglut. I have a question about my application and was wondering if anyone ran into the same problem (if it is one)? When I initially execute my app...

I'm using MSVC++ and freeglut in order to use openGL. Now, I have a class called Camera, which is pretty simple, but it also holds the function for the reshaping of my window. My question is: how ...

I get how glutdisplayfunc() makes the display loop and Iv read in some places that you should put the game mechanics in glutidle instead of the display; why can't you just put them in a while (game...

I've recently started learning OpenGL (> 3.3) & I've noticed a lot of examples & tutorials use both freeglut & glew, but don't really explain the difference at all. The best description...

I am running Linux Mint 14.1 64-bit I have installed the following libs: mesa-common-dev, freeglut3-dev, libglew-dev through the apt-get tool. Here are my includes, located in my Main.h file: ...

I'm doing some tutorials on OpenGL that use FreeGLUT. Apparently this is how you build and install it on the mac: CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/X11R6/include" ./configure --prefix="${PWD}/../" make make inst...

I'm trying to migrate from Windows 7 to 8, but glew and freeglut are giving me problems. The instructions I used were basically as follows: 1) Copy the contents of Lib and Include\GL folders of l...

I'm trying to get FreeGLUT working. For a reason I don't get, no binaries are distributed. Where can I download the .lib and the .dll files?

im on mac os snow leopard gcc 4.5.4 | gcc 4.2.1, trying to build the tutorials http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/ one needs to build dir glsdk first. I install freeglut (prerequisite) via macport...

Some context: I am going through a tutorial on using OpenGL. The tutorial requires a couple libraries in order to work. One of those libraries is FreeGLUT. I am on OS X using Lion. I've downloaded...

I get this error when trying to make the executable, the code compiles correctly and yet when I hit the make command I get this error message: gcc -c helloworld.c lewis@lewis-desktop ~/Desktop/Dev...

I have this code /////////////////////////////////////Gnome.cpp file #include "Living.h" class Gnome:public Living{ private: public: Gnome(); void drawObjects(); }; Gnome::Gnome() { sp...

I want to upgrade my scientific 3D application from Freeglut to GLFW, but I worried about hidden conflicts or loss of data, Actually my application works like a charm with Freeglut and I don't have...