[Interest] [OT] Re: OpenGL under Android... glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION) was not declared in this scope

[Sean Harmer]

On Wednesday 04 December 2013 17:28:05 Guido Seifert wrote:
> > ? Funny, I assumed the difference between OpenGL and ES was bigger than a
> > few ASCII characters...
> Unfortunately it is. I am still a beginner with all things OpenGL. But I
> managed it to write a converter to import Blender scenes into OpenGL. Works
> fine under Linux, falls flat under Android. Sure, I read that Android uses
> OpenGL ES. But until a few hours ago I didn't have the slightest idea what
> this actually means. *sigh* Back to the drawing board. Does not look too
> difficult to rewrite the code for OpenGL ES, but I really could do without
> this extra work. :-/

Be aware of the OpenGL ES 1.x and 2 differences. If at all possible please use 
ES 2 as this is much closer to modern desktop OpenGL and will also be more 
maintainable in the future. It does however mean learning about buffer objects 
(vertex buffer objects (VBOs) and maybe index buffers (IBOs)) as well as 
shaders.

Think of OpenGL ES 2 as approximately equivalent to OpenGL 2 without all of 
the old fixed functionality stuff that was deprecated in OpenGL 3.1.

Yes, I know it's confusing! ;)

Good luck,

Sean

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