LWJGL 3; how's it getting along?

OpenGL Development
#61

Thanks!

My game is only 2d, and I’m targeting very broad, very old specs. I have, for example, a computer from 2009(!) that only supports OGL 1.4 apparently. Though I’m just going for 2.1 or something so I can use fragment shaders, unless I have it in me to try and mess with extensions to get those working on 1.4, too.

Would I benefit at all from moving to the new LWJGL?

#62

Just a note about one line of code that is wrong in the Guide:

at line 41:


glfwSetErrorCallback(errorCallback = errorfunPrint(System.err));

should be:


glfwSetErrorCallback(errorCallback = errorCallbackPrint(System.err));
#63

[quote=“goblinJoel,post:61,topic:51150”]
Yes, LWJGL 3 does not force the use of new OpenGL features and works equally well on old hardware. The primary benefit would be moving from the old Display to GLFW.

Thanks, fixed.

#64

The LWJGL 3 wiki now has a tutorial section and the first tutorial is up: Ray tracing with OpenGL Compute Shaders (Part I), authored by Kai Burjack.

#65

any significant advantages over JOGL2?