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Computer graphics course material

Computer Graphics

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Computer Graphics course material for the Faculty of Technical Sciences.

Table of Contents

• Computer Graphics
  • Table of Contents
  • Branches
  • Environment
  • Installation and setup
    • Windows
      • Setting up Visual Studio
      • Base starter project
      • Creating your own project
    • Linux
      • Arch based
      • Debian based
      • Compiling and running

Branches

• base: Contains the base code which can be expanded upon for projects and learning
• demo: Contains a demo project showing off what's possible with OpenGL
• week-x: Contains x week's material
• additional_materials: Contains additional learning materials

Environment

Note: If you wish to use other libraries, consult with Jovan Ivošević at [e-mail].

• GLFW
• GLEW
• GLM
• Assimp

Installation and setup

Windows

If you want to use a project with preinstalled packages, you can use the starter project with all the required libraries already setup.

Setting up Visual Studio

Make sure to select "Desktop development with C++" in Visual Studio Installer

Base starter project

• From the "base" branch, download the starter project for your course
• Open it in Visual Studio and check your NuGet packages, you might have to restore them if you're getting build errors
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• After that you're set to go! No further setup required. If there is an issue, please notify us so we could address it

Creating your own project

• Create a new C++ console app in Visual Studio
• With your project's .cpp file open, click on "Project" in toolbar
• Select Manage "NuGet Packages..."
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• Select the "Browse" tab and enter the package name in the search field
• For GLFW enter "glfw" and install the package by Marcus Geelnard and Camilia Berglund
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• In the same manner install the following NuGet packages:
  • glew-2.2.0 by NerdTronik
  • glm by GLM contributors (versions 0.9.9.800 and higher)

Linux

Packages might differ depending on your distro, if not listed, contact [e-mail] to update.

• Create a folder for your code (you can use the .cpp and .hpp files from the repo)

Arch based

Manjaro, EndeavourOS, etc...

• To install GLM, GLFW, GLEW and Assimp:

sudo pacman -S glm glfw glew assimp

Debian based

Ubuntu, Pop, Deepin, Kali

sudo apt install libglfw3 libglfw3-dev libglm-dev libglew-dev assimp

Compiling and running

You can use make, cmake or any other build tool, but for most purposes this command will suffice:

# To compile (run this command inside your code dir, where all the .cpp and .hpp files are). NOTE: pkg-config is surrounded by backticks `, not by quotes '
g++ -o <your_program_name> *.cpp `pkg-config --libs glfw3 glew assimp` -ldl
# To run
./<your_program_name>

You can paste this code into a .sh file, e.g.: build.sh and run chmod +x build.sh only once in order to make it runnable, then to run it just type: ./build.sh