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.
Continue readingI 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.
Continue readingIn this post, I show how to draw many tiles from a single-layer level created with Tiled. I also show how to take a screen capture with OpenGL.
Continue readingTextures in the previous post allow the drawing of tiles, but the aspect ratio is not correct. In this post, I show how to draw a tile on a grid location correctly.
Continue readingIn this post, I introduce OpenGL textures and use them to draw tiles from tilesets.
Continue readingShaders are one of the powerful features of OpenGL. I introduce them in this post and show how to color vertices using vertex and fragment shaders.
Continue readingVertex Arrays Objects allow us to send large meshes to the GPU. It is a bit technical, but this is something we only have to do once.
Continue readingWe get the best performance when sending mesh data to the GPU in a single operation. In this post, I present the numpy library that can create such data.
Continue readingIn this new series, I propose to create a GUI facade for the 2D tileset-based games using OpenGL.
Continue readingThe final code of the game created during the series “Discover Python & Patterns” is available on Github: https://github.com/philippehenri-gosselin/tankgame
I also added a third level:
I am working on the next series (OpenGL 2D Facade), I don’t know when it will be ready.
