OpenGL Book Recommendation

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Hi, I’ve finally gotten comfortable with Slick2D and I want to start serious study of LWJGL/OpenGL in order to create simple 3D games.

  • I want to order a book online and was wondering what book you guys recommend, OpenGL Superbible perhaps? I’ll still use online resources but books are convenient when away from the computer.

  • Also, just wondering, by learning OpenGL does this then enable me to create 3D games with languages such as C++ without having to start from scratch, assuming I know the language?

Big thanks to everyone on this forum for always helping with all my problems ;D.

#2

  1. OpenGL SuperBible v5 is an excellent book. An equally excellent online resource is the arcsynthesis tutorial.

  2. Yup. :slight_smile:

#3

When using the above resource the LWJGL ports of the example code in that book found here may also be useful.

#4

Yes but OpenGL is not enough to create a complete game, you will probably need some other third party libraries to achieve that, for example you can use a Java binding for OpenAL for the sound (JOAL or its competitor in LWJGL), there are other aspects, the artificial intelligence, the network, etc…

#5

Thanks ra4king and kappa, I’ll take full advantage of those resources.
Good point gouessej, I’ll keep that in mind, thanks.