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Is OpenGL really not a good choice for developer for simple games any more? I mean, as an API it is not going anywhere, right? On the inside there will be comp

• dandotway 5y ago
  I wouldn't recommend OpenGL for new games. If you are serious about learning how 3D graphics really work I instead recommend a web search for "raytracer in one weekend." Or learn how to write a simple software-based triangle rasterizer if you don't want to learn to make a raytracer. Too many younger devs get sucked into trying to write their own engines for their games, when it is best to just write a simple "learning engine" and then move on to something prebuilt like Godot, Unreal, or Unity. If you were building a hotrod car it is so much easier to just order a crate motor than to try to machine your own engine block, pistons, piston rings, valves, valve springs, etc. Would you drill your own engine oil out of the ground too or just buy a few gallons off the shelf? Same deal with food. Lots of people nowadays moving to the country thinking they will raise their own farm animals and escape industrial civilization and its discontents. Then they learn animals have expensive and time-consuming medical needs....