Welcome to OpenGL

Thank you to the following Patreon supporters:
- Samuel Egger
- Dominic Pace

Gear I use:
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[julien-scholz]

I really like these videos because you actually know what you're talking about, something that is uncommon in programming tutorials these days.

[purplemosasaurus]

Him: "OpenGL"
Captions: "up in jail"

[realdanielpeach]

I am definitely one of those people that thought shaders had to do with lighting and shadows lol

[ninadsachania]

The production quality of these videos. Damn dude. Incredible

[jannikkoch]

This might become the first resource on modern GL that is actually comprehensive, I mean, you're doing a great job with the C++ series already, so I don't doubt it. Really tired of all those outdated, wrong or incomplete beginner's guides out there. Looking forward to it, if one can do it, you're the one!

[tah]

"Hi and welcome..." *Moves hands* "...to the OpenGL tutorial" *Handmoving intensifies*

[fenilli]

Dude, your channel is literally the best programming channel there is to be, you actually teach and explain and gives real opinion about it, not just write some code and say " well this works ".

[ayylith]

I love how you add your opinion into your tutorials! So many videos like this are just like "you can do it like this, or like this, depends which one you prefer" but I don't know anything about them, so I don't know which I prefer, which is exactly why I'm here. Thank you for actually telling us what you prefer and why.

[whythosenames]

I Love your channel sooo much! And now OpenGL! My life is perfect

[anicsr]

yes yes yes yes!! Perfect timing! Thank you dude

[snister]

Would love to see you start on a Direct3D series alongside OpenGL.
Would be so much fun because I've always wanted to dive in Direct3D11 but the tutorials I usually get are sometimes misleading and at other times show various ways of doing something and I end up getting confused over which one to follow and it goes into a complete mess. :D

[kennykenken]

Fantastic video mate, just one advice, can you maybe give us some exercise, not too much, just like one or two. Then give us the solution at the next video hopefully, I think it's better to practice when writing code

[anaibrahim]

i was about to give up on learning the OpenGl until i found this
just WOOW learning with that kind of explanation and calm music give you the desire to learn more
thank you very much for those series

[claudineyribeiro]

I reaaly like your tutos. I am a Brazilian vba programmer and just started a channel teaching how to use OpenGL with excel through VBA

[SaifUlIslam-dixv]

"We're not gonna make a graphics engine..."
Fast forward 3 years. :)

[Handskemager]

Hmm I wonder why it's called OpenGL(Graphics Library) if it isn't a library per se

[delta_yd]

The sheer amount of motivation this video gives me to learn OpenGL is so impressive.
Also can we appreciate the soundtrack?
It's like, so hopeful and ambient to this sort of inspirational vibe I got from this.
I'm excited to dive into the series.

[mistersir]

dude how come you not touch the cactus plant even though you come so close to touching it with your hands with all those movements like at 4:50

[WeirdBrainGoo]

I really like The Cherno's teaching style. He finds ways to make something that works quickly and shows us exactly how to get it to work. Getting that feeling of success quickly, of being able to create a window and render a triangle is super motivating. He also adds small amounts of code at a time and explains what each thing does. I love this, as I've tried to learn game dev before, and having to copy large amounts of code without understanding what anything does really scared me away from the whole thing for a long time.

That being said, I was happily following this series and copying the code, until episode 9 when I realized that I don't know what I will be learning during the series. I remember The Cherno saying in one episode that you can do really cool things with OpenGL, and so I was expecting to learn to do something pretty cool. I looked through the episodes and it seems that the coolest thing we learn to do is to render the The Cherno logo. That didn't seem so cool to me, I felt kind of disappointed to be honest. :/ I thought we would at least see something move.

I also looked through the Game Engine series. I thought, maybe the cooler applications to OpenGL will be in there. In episode 28 you render your first triangle. In episode 29 he talks about how we will learn to render a revolver with textures and roughness maps and an environment cube. That actually seemed cool to me. But looking through the episodes, in the latest one, episode 112, he is still teaching about 2D game development. The last episode came out in December 2021, about five months ago, and so maybe The Cherno is taking a break from the series and will return to teach 3D stuff later. I hope the series isn't over yet.

I feel somewhat demotivated, not knowing what I will learn if I keep up with these series. I don't mind going through dozens upon dozens of episodes if I know I will learn useful skills through them. But if I don't know if I'll learn to even render a 3D model, I don't know if there's a point. :/

[astronime]

This is awesome, and even though I'm over a year behind I can see you're still pumping these out... I'm going to support on Patreon in the hopes you don't stop