Hello all, Can i use OpenGL only to program 3d-games, or can i use it for 2d-games, too? Is there a page, where i can download easy understandable tutorials? Thank you

Hi,
you can use OpenGL for both 2D and 3D, but you gotta do 2D using the 3D-pipeline. This means, everything has to be rendered as polygons and not simply writing a bitmap to the screen. If you once understood how enhanced 2D works, it''s kewl, because it''s much faster than normal 2D rendering and you''ve got much more possibillities (like Alpha-Blending and filtered textures), which are normally not support by a 2d-API.

You could search for the OpenGL Red Book, it''s okay. As to some tutorials, there are a few good ones on www.opengl.org and some other sites aren''t bad at all like Druid''s GL Journla (hosted on GameDev.Net), Nate''s Programming Page ( http://nate.scuzzy.net ), glGameDeveloper(), etc.

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