I think an important thing with something like this would be to decide exactly what it is that one is trying to do. Is it supposed to be a full game engine? Or a learning tool? I''d personally encourage the latter--it would be great to give GL newbies easy modular code for some stuff GL lacks, like model loading/rendering, sprites, and so forth (I know I would have loved it starting out), especially if there''s good, extensively commented source.

My intentions were also the latter. Just have loose "components" that you can plug into your program with 1 line of code (#include) which will give you something, such as loading a model, or whatever. It should be compiler and os independent

Heh, post a site, and I''ll join up. We should then divide the work into different categories, and basically position people into those categories, and make em(us) code.

So it starts with a project to load models and now it''s gonna be a whole game engine?

I think a standard loader for loading models would be great, I''ve had lots of problems with that too. I now use MD2 but thats not a great solution. Doesn''t DX have a model loader, x file or something?

What you really need is at least one good GL programmer , someone with lots of experience. Without that, I don''t think much progress will be made.

nick

Unfortunately I dont have a website...

Essentially, all you''ve described is a more uniform version of the tutorials nehe has produced. Why dont you approach a good modeling programmer and ask for an online tutorial?

.. come again? what exactly do you mean? What does a 3D modeler have to do with teamwork to realise special codes/classes for opengl programming?

I think you should first define what you really want to do.
My opinion is that you first should begin with a not too huge project (model loader/render, with why not the modeler and animator shoud be a good idea (it''s what I''d be interested in :D, and what I''m ready to help you))

Coding conventions and so could be a problem but over people have already been confronted with it, so it should be sovable.

well the way I see a project as this is that I dont want to be a BOSS of a group of coders, but just the manager of the project. Meaning I would just ask every-one willing to do something like this what THEY think we should create first/next, like a poll, but their own entries.

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Original post by llvllatrix
Essentially, all you''ve described is a more uniform version of the tutorials nehe has produced. Why dont you approach a good modeling programmer and ask for an online tutorial?

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If you dont know what I mean, take a look at the camera class on the main page. Generally stuff like that, but not focussing on 1 thing (such as models)