KernEngine

The GL in OpenGL stands for “Good Luck” because you are going to need it.

KernEngine is a Game Engine/Framework for realtime 3d rendering and game development.
Extracted from 2 projects for university courses.

Requirements

Development is done with

• Conan 2.x
• CMake 3.27.x
• Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition

Building

Conan install for debug and release builds

conan install . --build=missing --settings=build_type=Debug
conan install . --build=missing --settings=build_type=Release

CMake project generation

On Windows

cmake --preset conan-default

On Linux

cmake --preset conan-debug
cmake --preset conan-release

On Windows, open the generated solution file in the build folder.
On Linux use

cmake --build build/Debug
cmake --build build/Release

Literature

Relevant tutorials

• https://learnopengl.com
• http://www.opengl-tutorial.org
• https://open.gl
• https://ogldev.org/
• https://www.spieleprogrammierung.net/p/opengl-tutorial-liste.html
• https://www.tomdalling.com/blog/category/modern-opengl
• http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/OpenGL
• https://antongerdelan.net/opengl
• http://www.mbsoftworks.sk/tutorials
• http://duriansoftware.com/joe/An-intro-to-modern-OpenGL.-Table-of-Contents.html
• https://www.rastertek.com/tutdx11s2ter.html - Actually DirectX11 but the terrain tutorial looks interesting
• https://github.com/fendevel/Guide-to-Modern-OpenGL-Functions
• https://www.swiftless.com/
• https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Getting_Started - List of other tutorials
• https://github.com/fendevel/Guide-to-Modern-OpenGL-Functions

Screenshots