Chapter 1. Getting Started with GLSL 4.0

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Using the GLEW library to access the latest OpenGL functionality

• Using the GLM library for mathematics

• Determining the GLSL and OpenGL version

• Compiling a shader

• Linking a shader program

• Sending data to a shader using per-vertex attributes and vertex buffer objects

• Getting a list of active vertex input attributes and indices

• Sending data to a shader using uniform variables

• Getting a list of active uniform variables

• Using uniform blocks and uniform buffer objects

• Building a C++ shader program class