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LeoDraco · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject:

Ack! NeHe is horrible! The articles overly complicate matters, hardly discuss anything useful, and showcase nothing but poor design and planning. The Red Book is a much better language resource.
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Jon Alma · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:38 am Post subject:

Captain Vimes · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:22 pm Post subject:

Go. The. Hell. Away.
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Nodtveidt · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject:

I would have to agree about NeHe...iut's not everything it's cracked up to be. Some techniques work for some, and not for others, and in this case, they don't work for LeoDraco...NeHe's tutorials certainly didn't work for me either.
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Captain Vimes · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject:

Thank you, anonymous mod who deleted the posts of the evil Softball_Girl. I am forever in your debt.
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Captain Vimes · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject:

Oh, good. I'm not an egg-sucking troll humper any more. Yay.
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BadMrBox · Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:17 am Post subject:

That's because you respond's to spam and do doublepost's Unbeliever.
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RedSlash · Mage Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 331

I don't think he double posts, he replies to morons and those morons posts get deleted so it seems that he's double posting because the deleted posts are missing.

Captain Vimes · Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject:

Finally got the time to update my project. I feel much better now.
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Captain Vimes · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject:

I'm reading OPENGL GAME PROGRAMMING so that I'll be able to do graphics and finally have a screenshot to post here. It'll be while before I reach billboarding though.
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Bjorn · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:25 pm Post subject:

Captain Vimes · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:12 pm Post subject:

Ah, well. That website is crap anyway. There's really not much on there pertaining to Mysilin.
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Captain Vimes · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:26 pm Post subject:

Well, I'm slowly making progress through my self-taught OpenGL course. It'll be a while before I reach the billboarding section though.

BUT I CAN MAKE A FUNCTIONING OPENGL WINDOW 9 TIMES OUT OF 10 NOW! YAY!

:P
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Ninkazu · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject:

Isn't making a window more GLUT or FLTK or whatever lib you're using? OpenGL is the 3D stuff...

LeoDraco · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:11 am Post subject:

Yeah, it should be. Granted, you have to instruct the library with the setup information, but that should be fairly trivial.

Course, he could be creating the window manually; NeHe is big on doing low-level Windows API crap.
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