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Someone please explain what a OpenGL programmer does

by Scott McGlasson · in Technical Issues · 01/22/2002 (6:11 pm) · 3 replies

How exactly does an OpenGL programmer impact a game? Use Tribe 2 as an example. What does the OpenGL programmer do in such a game...particle effects, decals?

#1
01/22/2002 (7:46 pm)
Im guessing any openGL related stuff, which is most of drawing anything to the screen... from managing all the buffers, to drawing texture polygons, to, well, anything to do with graphics in a game. Even something as simple as the compass i worked on a bit had openGL calls in it... quite the job, id say
Ryan
#2
01/22/2002 (7:58 pm)
Scott,
OpenGl programmers have a big impact on the industry. They can do anything such as loading objects to a screen or coding the game such as Robert Duffy of id software does with the quake series which is an OpenGl game. They only use Direct audio and forgot what else but thats basically what they can do.
#3
01/23/2002 (12:35 am)
Thanks for the replies, guys. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going insane.