Demo video (on YouTube)

gl-engine

Basic game engine project I'm working on, made in C++ and using OpenGL for graphics. I am using it both for learning OpenGL and graphics, and to get a sense of how to build a game engine. We'll see how that goes!

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How to build

Building the program is tested on Windows 10 using Visual Studio 2022.

Make sure you have vcpkg set up and integrated to your Visual Studio installation

I use vcpkg to obtain dependency libraries for the project. You gotta have it installed and integrated to your Visual Studio installation. Please refer to the official vcpkg setup instructions if needed, but the gist of it is given below. Note that my project uses vcpkg in manifest mode with a vcpkg.json file, so there's no need to run vcpkg install instructions explicitly. So do the following:

• Clone the vcpkg repository somewhere with:

  git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git

• Navigate to where you cloned vcpkg, and set it up with the provided batch file

  cd C:\folder\where\you\cloned\vcpkg

  .\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat

• Then, integrate vcpkg with your Visual Studio installation

  vcpkg integrate install

Finally, clone and build the project proper:

• Clone the project with:

  git clone https://github.com/lalilulelost/gl-engine

• Double-click the gl-engine.sln file to open it with Visual Studio
• Finally, press Ctrl+Shift+B to build it; Visual Studio will rely on vcpkg to check the vcpkg.json manifest file, and will download and build the dependency libraries before finally building the repository code itself.