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    OpenGl books

    Hi everyone.

    I have been programming for awhile now and think that its time i start some games. I want to code with OpenGl, so i was just wondering what is the best book out there to start with.

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    OpenGL game programming is excellent it teaches all kinds of necessary this such as matrix multiplication,rotation,translation and the like its nice.
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    You could get the old programming guide for free:
    here:
    http://ask.ii.uib.no/ebt-bin/nph-dwe...CollectionView

    or here:
    http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~unreal/theredbook/

    it would be a great place to start without spending any money.
    nehe also has some good tutorials.
    If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?

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    Thanks ppl for your reply's. Thanks for the URL's i was hoping for some good tutorials first, and thanks for the book title ill go buy it next time i have some cash.


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    <a href="http://nehe.gamedev.net">nehe.gamedev.net is a great place to start! cheers!</a>

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    hmm...html not working? nehe.gamedev.net there, that should work

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