A Tutorials / Examples Forum?
Posted Tuesday, 4 March, 2008 - 09:05 by Fox inHello,
Since OpenTK Specific tutorials/examples are a little lacking right now, I think it would be a good idea to create a Tutorials / Examples Forum were users can post tutorials & examples that are specifically written for OpenTK.
Possible guidelines for posting a tutorial/example could be:
- List what version of OpenTK the tutorial/example is using.
- What version of OpenGL it targets (2.1, 3.x etc..)?
- What Platform (.Net/Mono under OSX/X11/Windows(XP|Vista) 32/64)
- If the tutorial is based on / converted from another tutorial, please credit the original author & provide a link to the original if possible.
- (You might want to add some guidelines for submitting source code etc..)
I think a forum like this would encourage people to create new tutorials/examples & it would be a great resource for people who are just starting out with OpenTK to search, & depending on the quality of the tutorial, you might be able to add them to the OpenTK docs...
~F^o^x
Comments
Re: A Tutorials / Examples Forum?
Funny thing you mention this right when I'm about to reorganize the forums. :)
Makes sense actually. I'll add a forum and epending on its usage it may go or stay in the future.
Re: A Tutorials / Examples Forum?
Cool, I'm working on a project from the ground up, & learning OpenGL as I go. There are many tutorials out there, & I'm going to practically be converting them to OpenTK anyway, so maybe I'll be able to contribute some tutorials along the way. :)
~F^o^x
Re: A Tutorials / Examples Forum?
Contributions are always welcome, but I recommend you check the Source/Examples folder in the distribution before starting to prepare any source code you intend to contribute, to avoid duplicates. Also VBO are covered in the documentation http://www.opentk.com/doc
What Platform (.Net/Mono under OSX/X11/Windows(XP|Vista) 32/64)
OpenTK makes this irrelevant, unless you start dllimport OS-specific functions. Everything written for Net under WinXP 32 runs fine under Win64 and Linux with only a simple dll.config file added to the directory for Mono. This will soon be true for MacOS aswell :)
Like Fiddler put it: "Compile once - run everywhere!"
Re: A Tutorials / Examples Forum?
Actually, the dll.config requirement will be lifted in 0.9.2 (already coded the solution, but it's too late for 0.9.1) :)
Apart from this, these guidelines are fine (summed up at http://www.opentk.com/node/304, feel free to comment there for corrections/updates). Platform-specific code should be avoided, unless there's a really good reason.