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[vaironl]

Hello All,

I first want to apologize for introducing myself and talking about a general topic under this section, but I couldn't find another more fitting section.

I’ve been programming in java for a bit now and am studying computer science. I’ve decided to apply what I’m learning in a fun way and making very small games for fun seems to be the most fun way. I’ve actually tried LWJGL before, but I’ve never completed even a simple game. Tutorials are all around the web, and I’ve found what I consider great youtube tutorials, however, many of these seem to be incomplete. I was recently watching “thebennybox” and his basic LWJGL seems to be incomplete.

Part of the programming fun is figuring stuff out on your own, but if someone has a specific set of tutorial that could help me accomplish the completion of a small game program I would really appreciate it (preferably text). Also, I again apologize for the general question there are a bunch of tutorials on the LWJGL wiki, but I’ve wondered what has worked the most for others. I’ve always been serious about my programming, however I tend to jump around between languages and framework which I was told is really really bad. Just recently I switched back to Java from IOS as my school college courses are in Java.

Additional Info: I still don't consider myself proficient in Java, however I've been using it for a while now 3+ years and I can search the documentation and learn many concepts on my own so don't worry about these.

Thanks a lot for any help!! I promise to stick in this forum for more than 1 post.

[ra4king]

Hey vaironl, welcome to the LWJGL forum!

An excellent tutorial that I would recommend starting out with is the Arcsynthesis tutorial. It covers 3D development with OpenGL in C++. The C++ code has been ported to Java+LWJGL.

While going along, I highly recommend becoming familiar with the GL functions. The best way is to simply google the function name, and preferably choose the ones from 'opengl.org', not from 'khronos.org'.
In addition the OpenGL Wiki has even more excellent documentation on all areas of OpenGL for more perusing!

Good luck!

[vaironl]

Hey vaironl, welcome to the LWJGL forum!

An excellent tutorial that I would recommend starting out with is the Arcsynthesis tutorial. It covers 3D development with OpenGL in C++. The C++ code has been ported to Java+LWJGL.

While going along, I highly recommend becoming familiar with the GL functions. The best way is to simply google the function name, and preferably choose the ones from 'opengl.org', not from 'khronos.org'.
In addition the OpenGL Wiki has even more excellent documentation on all areas of OpenGL for more perusing!

Good luck!

Thanks a lot for providing me with these resources ra4king. I had seen this tutorials in the LWJGL Wiki but got a bit overwhelmed when I saw it was in C++ (Obviously I didn't read enough to find out there were ports to java. This will help me quite a lot as it is a very complete series. I plan on first making an asteroids type of game and even that will take me quite a lot of time due to other life duties, but I'll post my progress as I go along.