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Lua Game Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Lua Game Development Cookbook Over 70 recipes that will help you master the elements and best practices required to build a modern game engine using Lua

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781849515504
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mário Kašuba Mário Kašuba
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Preface 1. Basics of the Game Engine 2. Events FREE CHAPTER 3. Graphics – Common Methods 4. Graphics – Legacy Method with OpenGL 1.x–2.1 5. Graphics – Modern Method with OpenGL 3.0+ 6. The User Interface 7. Physics and Game Mechanics 8. Artificial Intelligence 9. Sounds and Networking Index

Drawing primitives using vertex buffers


VBO was, in the past, a part of an OpenGL as an extension. With the new OpenGL specification, the VBO mechanism is included in the GLSL specification. This means that you can reuse much of the existing functionality with small changes. VBOs present an opaque storage for data; therefore, they might contain the vertex positions, texture coordinates, colors or any other data. GLSL shaders can use these buffers but they must be differentiated so the shader program knows what data is stored inside of these buffers. That's where the vertex array objects or VAO come in. The vertex array object is a structure that merges VBOs for use in the shader program. They are used in GLSL shader programs as a main source of vertex attributes. Each of the attributes can be submitted in its own VBO. It ensures efficient upload of all vertices into graphic memory and you can easily add other vertices if needed.

You may find it desirable to use interleaved data format for...

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