Monthly Archives: September 2020

OpenGL 2D Facade (12): Characters

Posted on September 30, 2020 by phylyp

In this post, I add a new type of layer dedicated to characters. These layers can draw tiles anywhere and updates their OpenGL data every time we render a frame. This post is part of the OpenGL 2D Facade series … Continue reading →

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OpenGL 2D Facade (11): View and Keyboard

Posted on September 23, 2020 by phylyp

With the previous program, the size of the window depends on the size of the level, which is problematic when the level is large. In this post, I update the shader programs to get a fast translation of the display. … Continue reading →

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OpenGL 2D Facade (10): Layers

Posted on September 13, 2020 by phylyp

In this post, we extend the facade to handle several layers. We also see how to draw with transparency.

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OpenGL 2D Facade (9): Load a level

Posted on September 9, 2020 by phylyp

Before handling the rendering of several layers, we need data to build them. Rather than copy and paste many ids from a Tiled map file, I propose to read them using the TMX library.

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OpenGL 2D Facade (8): Facade

Posted on September 2, 2020 by phylyp

I have enough content to start a facade: I refactorize all the code to satisfy the properties of the Facade pattern and get a more robust and extensible implementation.

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