Allowed points to be rendered as full textures, which is essential for efficient particle systems.
, allowing developers to write custom code for how graphics are processed on the GPU. Key capabilities enabled by this update include: Animation World Network Programmable Shaders : Support for custom Vertex and Fragment shaders opengl 20
The year was 2001, and the graphics programming world was a kingdom divided. On one side stood the wizards of Direct3D, armed with a powerful, if capricious, new magic called shaders . On the other side knelt the followers of OpenGL, the ancient and noble order of the Fixed-Function Pipeline. Allowed points to be rendered as full textures,
while (!glfwWindowShouldClose(window)) glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); glUseProgram(program); glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, 3); glfwSwapBuffers(window); glfwPollEvents(); On one side stood the wizards of Direct3D,
And when they ran it, a simple cube rendered, its colors mapping to its vertex normals. It was a trivial shader. But it was the first breath of a new life.