Embla-Flatlandsmo / OpenGL-minimal-compute-particles

A bare-bones OpenGL application that simulates simple point particles using a compute shader.

Bounded Compute Particles

A minimal-ish project that sets up particles that are tweaked in a compute shader. See my blog post on this project.

Some of the code is lifted from https://github.com/bartvbl/TDT4230-Assignment-1

Project structure

main.cpp initializes the window, program.cpp is where everything is initialized and updated/rendered. Finally, the particle system is implemented in particles/particleSystem.cpp. It goes a bit deep but I just wanted to see if I could get my particle code to work with the initial code.

Building:

1. git clone --recursive https://github.com/Embla-Flatlandsmo/OpenGL-minimal-compute-particles.git
2. cd openGL-minimal-compute-particles
3. cmake .
4. cmake --build .
5. The executable should be in ./Debug

Alternatively using VS Code:

1. git clone --recursive https://github.com/Embla-Flatlandsmo/OpenGL-minimal-compute-particles.git
2. cd openGL-minimal-compute-particles
3. code .
4. Using the CMake extension, let cmake do its thing
5. Use Ctrl+Shift+P then type CMake: Build The executable should be found in /build/bin

Note that because I'm using file(COPY res DESTINATION ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}) in the root CMakeLists.txt, the stuff in the res folder might not update inbetween builds. Haven't found a fix for that yet.