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OpenGL LOVE Engine architecture explained

Posted: June 28th, 2009, 2:40am MDT

Tags: Developers

OpenGL veteran Eskil Steenberg in his latest blog explains the architecture and optimization strategies used for his upcoming non-photorealistic game LOVE. By using some radical OpenGL optimizations the engine is able to render beautiful images of dynamic environments at high frame rates and high resolution on inexpensive hardware. For screen shots and video visit this page.

3D surgical simulator based on OpenGL

Posted: June 25th, 2009, 8:05am MDT

Tags: Applications

The Visible Ear Simulator, is a beta-freeware drilling simulator developed by the Danish National Hospital and the Alexandra Institute. It will aid surgeons in developing their temporal bone drilling skills. The simulator is based on OpenGl and uses advanced shaders to accelrate the interactive volume rendering.

AGI Releases Insight3D – an OpenGL Based Component for 3D Aerospace and GIS Visualization

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 2:20pm MDT

Tags: Applications

AGI announces Insight3D - a .NET control that lets developers add 3D visualization to their aerospace and GIS applications. Insight3D supports terrain, imagery, 3D models, satellite orbits, aircraft routes and more. Objects can be animated and also interacted with through picking and flexible camera control. GLSL is used to accurately position objects over globe and space distances, project video onto terrain, render text and markers, conform polygons to terrain, and more. Insight3D is free for development and non-commercial use.

The Open Toolkit 0.9.9 brings OpenCL to .Net

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 2:19pm MDT

Tags: Developers

The Open Toolkit is a set of advanced, cross-platform bindings to OpenGL, OpenCL and OpenAL for Mono/.Net. The latest release adds support for the OpenCL ‘flat’ API and improves platform integration and speed.

OpenSceneGraph Professional Services releases OpenGL based OpenSceneGraph 2.8.1

Posted: June 23rd, 2009, 7:30am MDT

Tags: Developers, Applications

OpenSceneGraph Professional Services announces the release of OpenSceneGraph 2.8.1. OpenSceneGraph 2.8 written entirely in Standard C++ and built upon OpenGL, offers developers working in the visual simulation, game development, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modeling markets - a real-time visualization tool which eclipses commercial scene graph toolkits in functionality, stability and performance.

Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX adds new OpenGL accelerated filters

Posted: June 23rd, 2009, 7:26am MDT

Tags: Applications

Boris FX has released the full version of Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX. The plug-in adds nearly 200 filters to video and film editing programs such as Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Adobe After Effects. Included in the almost 200 filters are OpenGL accelerated filters including Lightning and Title Mosaic and the 3D text generator.

ALT Software to deliver DO-178B certifiable OpenGL drivers for the ATI Radeon™ E4690

Posted: June 23rd, 2009, 6:23am MDT

Tags: Developers, Applications

ALT Software, the leading provider of advanced graphics software for safety-critical embedded systems, today announced its commitment to deliver DO-178B certifiable OpenGL drivers for the ATI Radeon™ E4690, AMD’s newest high performance embedded graphics accelerator. As part of its commitment to AMD’s Embedded GPU roadmap, ALT Software will be delivering both OpenGL SC (Safety Critical) and OpenGL ES 2.0 support for the ATI Radeon E4690.

GPU Developers Summit—tutorials, presentations on OpenCL, OpenGL, C++ and more

Posted: June 19th, 2009, 9:28am MDT

Tags: Developers

The GPU Developers Summit will be a 3-day series of technical presentations, tutorials and panels aimed at developers of consumer, professional and high performance computing applications looking to exploit more of the GPU’s parallel processing power using industry-standard languages such as C/C++ and Fortran as well as APIs such as Direct3D, DirectX Compute, OpenCL™ and OpenGL.

Use tessellation in OpenGL to render at 6-times the speed

Posted: June 19th, 2009, 9:03am MDT

Tags: Developers

By using tessellation in OpenGL, the same level of detail can be rendered at 6-times the speed and save more than 50% of video memory, not to mention the bandwidth saved from uploading significantly less geometry. Very little work is needed to get tessellation running on a FirePro or Radeon card in any OpenGL app. Just enable tessellation state in OpenGL with the AMD_vertex_shader_tessellator and pick your tessellation factor based on how detailed you would like the geometry to be. The application vertex shaders can also be updated to correct texture coordinates based on the generated geometry.

Modular and Procedural system for City generation using OpenGL

Posted: June 19th, 2009, 8:53am MDT

Tags: Applications

Structure is a procedural system generating virtual cities including destroyable building interiors. For rendering of the massive city the system is using OpenGL hardware acceleration and ARB_occlusion_query.

Grome 2 OpenGL Based Modeler Released

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 9:15am MDT

Tags: Applications

Quad Software announced today the release of Grome 2 modeling application. Grome is an OpenGL outdoor modeling editor used by professional game developers and companies from 3D simulation industry. Based on positive feedback from professional users, the Grome editor was enhanced to a more complete outdoor modeling solution by adding support for water surfaces, vegetation, and new tools for its terrain generators. The editor is using OpenGL hardware acceleration to apply complex terrain, water and object materials using OpenGL Shading Language. OpenGL based GPGPU solutions are used for custom modules computations like road networks editing. More information on the product webpage.

TNGViewer updates cross-platform OpenGL viewer

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 9:14am MDT

Tags: Applications

Immaginaria Ltd. is happy to announce an update to TNGViewer, its interactive cross-platform OpenGL viewer, featuring vastly improved default lighting for simple 3D models/scenes that do not contain any lights. The new key/fill/back/ambient model features individually controllable lights. Also, TNGViewer now supports modifier+mouse shortcuts in icon navigation mode (besides user mode), for easy rotation, panning and zooming.

Twenty Sided creates a procedural city with C++ and OpenGL

Posted: June 16th, 2009, 9:52am MDT

Tags: Applications

Twenty Sided has created a fascinating 14 part in-depth look at how he created a Windows ScreenSaver using C++ and OpenGL. The complete code is available through SVN from here and a demo here.

OSG Composer, OpenGL Interactive 3D scene editor, released

Posted: June 15th, 2009, 1:37am MDT

Tags: Applications

Simulation Lab Software is proud to announce the release of OSG Composer, an OpenGL interactive application, to build advanced 3D scenes. OSG Composer allows the user to add models from different sources, place them using interactive draggers and snapping tools, specify materials, add texture coordinates, and pack the scenes to be shared on different machines. OSG Composer is available in two versions, OSG Composer Lite, which is free version even for commercial use, and OSG Composer CAD version, which is an inexpensive option to add support to CAD formats including Solidworks, IGES, STEP, Rhino, SketchUp, FBX, 3D XMAL, and more. OSG Composer is supported on Windows and Mac OSX

Tribal Trouble released - OpenGL from the browser

Posted: June 11th, 2009, 7:11am MDT

Tags: Applications

Tribal Trouble 2 is the 3D realtime strategy game played from your browser. In the browser you manage your Viking tribe and choose what quests to go on, and when it is time to fight, an OpenGL window is automatically launched with no plugin requirements other than the Java plugin.

Everest Ultimate Edition is released-System Diagnostics and Benchmarking with OpenGL 3.0 support

Posted: June 10th, 2009, 6:29am MDT

Tags: Applications

Everest Ultimate Edition—an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users—v5.0.2.1765 Beta is released. Included in this release is support for OpenGL 3.0 with OpenGL version compliancy test.

Lightsprint global illumination breaks 1000fps-100% speedup via OpenGL in Windows

Posted: June 10th, 2009, 6:10am MDT

Tags: Developers

Lightsprint announces 100% speedup in real-time global illumination rendered via OpenGL in Windows, Linux, x86, x64, powerpc. New technology is immediately available in Lightsprint SDK - lighting middleware that integrates with game engines or works on its own. When tested in Lightsmark, OpenGL realtime GI benchmark, gaming PC broke 1000fps barrier. This speed comes with completely dynamic lighting, including dynamic HDR skylight and dynamic emissive materials. Lightsprint SDK is used in range of games and architectural visualizations built on UE3, Gamebryo and other engines, newly also in NCsoft’s Metal Black Alternative and Airtight Games’ Dark Void.

TNG 3D interactive cross-platform OpenGL viewer released

Posted: June 10th, 2009, 5:44am MDT

Tags: Applications

Immaginaria Ltd. is proud to announce the release of TNGViewer, a free interactive OpenGL viewer for FBX, 3DS, OBJ, DXF, DAE, LWO and LWS files, featuring support for image and movie export using QuickTime. TNGViewer displays all scenes using dynamically-built OpenGL vertex/fragment programs, in a single rendering pass, including advanced effects. The application is available for download on Windows and Mac OS X: it is the display environment for TNG 3D interactive presentations, a service offered by Immaginaria Ltd. Several demo presentations are available here.

3D Clouds & Sky SDK for OpenGL Adds Linux Support, 20% Speedup

Posted: June 8th, 2009, 6:00am MDT

Tags: Developers

Sundog Software has released version 1.8 of SilverLining, its SDK for real-time 3D volumetric clouds, physically-based simulated skies, natural lighting, and precipitation effects. By supporting the new bindless graphics extensions, this new version runs 20% faster on OpenGL, with framerates exceeding 300 fps on consumer-grade hardware for scenes with volumetric cumulus clouds stretching to the horizon. Version 1.8 also introduces Linux support in addition to Windows. Visit our website at www.sundog-soft.com for an evaluation SDK, demos, movies, and screenshots of SilverLining in use for simulation, training, and games around the world. Royalty-free commercial licenses and academic licenses are available.

gDEBugger iPhone - Beta Program

Posted: June 4th, 2009, 9:28am MDT

Tags: Developers

Graphic Remedy is proud to announce the upcoming release of gDEBugger for the iPhone platform. gDEBugger iPhone will allow OpenGL ES based application developers to enjoy advanced debugging and profiling capabilities, helping them reduce development time, deliver high quality applications and significantly improve graphic rendering performance. More information and for joining the gDEBugger iPhone Free Beta Program, please visit our website.

AMD Triples the Performance of ATI Embedded Graphics Chips-support OpenGL 3.0

Posted: June 2nd, 2009, 6:16am MDT

Tags: Processors

AMD) announced the ATI Radeon™ E4690 graphics processor unit (GPU) designed to enable a whole level of new reality for embedded graphics applications with more than triple (comparison of ATI Radeon E4600 to ATI Radeon E2400 using 3Dmark06 tests) the 3D graphics performance of prior AMD embedded products. Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 and OpenGL 3.0 included.

The Open Toolkit 0.9.8 released

Posted: June 1st, 2009, 5:56am MDT

Tags: Developers, Applications

The Open Toolkit is a set of advanced, cross-platform bindings to OpenGL and OpenAL for Mono/.Net. The latest version brings full OpenGL 3.1 support, improved stability and significantly better text rendering performance. The Open Toolkit is now looking for volunteers to help implement OpenCL support and improve available tutorials. If you are interested, please visit www.opentk.com/news/call-for-help and make a post.

New version of Ca3D-Engine 3D OpenGL real-time graphics released

Posted: June 1st, 2009, 5:54am MDT

Tags: Developers, Applications

Version 9.06 (June 2009) of the Ca3D-Engine has just been released. The Ca3D-Engine is a modern game engine and game development kit with 3D OpenGL real-time graphics and multi-player network support for Windows and Linux. The new version introduces a new GUI Editor: A convenient graphical editor for editing GUIs for use in Ca3DE. The resulting GUIs can be used both in 2D (e.g. for the console, player HUD or the main menu) as well as directly in the 3D worlds as game elements. See the GUI Gallery for some examples. Also a new Font Wizard was added to the editing tools that can be used for converting many font files for use in Ca3DE. Regarding physics, the Bullet Physics engine was integrated into the Ca3D-Engine, making it both more powerful and faster.

Visualization Library a3.2.440 Released With OpenGL-Based Volume Rendering Screenshots

Posted: May 29th, 2009, 9:31am MDT

Tags: Applications

Visualization Library is a cross-platform OpenGL-based C++ visualization toolkit dedicated to visualization professionals. This new release brings an enhanced volume visualization engine implementing realtime Blinn-Phong lighting with the OpenGL Shading Language, isosurface extraction via marching cubes, DICOM file support to read and write medical images and volumes, plus many other enhancements. A set of volume visualization screenshots can be found here, here and here. For more information on Visualization Library features visit our website.

Game Engine Gems Call for Papers

Posted: May 27th, 2009, 7:16am MDT

Tags: Developers

Jones and Bartlett Publishers is pleased to announce a new book series entitled Game Engine Gems, produced by some of the same people who created the Game Programming Gems series almost ten years ago. The paper submission period for Game Engine Gems is now open through August 1, 2009. The theme of the book includes everything having to do with game engine design and implementation. Specific topics include rendering techniques, shaders, interaction with graphics APIs such as OpenGL or DirectX, scene organization, visibility determination, collision detection, audio, user interface, input devices, memory management, artificial intelligence, resource organization, and mathematics. Paper proposals can be submitted on the official Game Engine Gems website.

NVIDIA to host the first GPU Technology Conference

Posted: May 27th, 2009, 7:15am MDT

Tags: Developers

NVIDIA Corporation announced that its inaugural GPU Technology Conference will take place September 30 to October 2, 2009. The event will focus on how developers, engineers, and researchers are using the GPU to solve the world’s most important computing challenges. The conference will encompass three simultaneous events—the Emerging Companies Summit, the GPU Developer Summit, and the NVIDIA Research Summit. The GPU Developer Summit will be a 3-day series of technical presentations, tutorials and panels aimed at developers of consumer, professional and high performance computing applications looking to exploit more of the GPU’s parallel processing power using industry-standard languages such as C/C++ and Fortran as well as APIs such as Direct3D, DirectX Compute, OpenCL™ and OpenGL.

The performance advantage of OpenGL VBOs for CAD visualization in CATIA

Posted: May 26th, 2009, 1:31pm MDT

Tags: Applications

his video demonstrates how OpenGL VBO (Vertex Buffer Object) support enables three times the visualization performance in CATIA v5. This comparison was running on FirePro V5700 and Lenovo D20 Xeon system.

gDEBugger V5.1 Adds VBO data viewing - OpenGL debugger and profiler

Posted: May 21st, 2009, 7:16am MDT

Tags: Developers, Applications

The new gDEBugger V5.1 adds the ability to view Vertex Buffer Objects (VBOs) data. The Textures and Buffers viewer Data View tab displays the selected VBO’s data in a spreadsheet. The user can select the displayed data format, offset and stride. gDEBugger, an OpenGL and OpenGL ES debugger and profiler, traces application activity on top of the OpenGL API, lets programmers see what is happening within the graphic system implementation to find bugs and optimize OpenGL application performance. gDEBugger runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.

NeoAxis OpenGL accelerated Game Engine 0.81 released

Posted: May 19th, 2009, 11:08am MDT

Tags: Developers, Applications

NeoAxis Group Ltd has just released next update of its modern 3D game engine. NeoAxis Engine is a complete integrated development environment for creating interactive 3D graphics including 3D virtual worlds, AAA games, and realistic simulations. The system comprised of both a real-time 3D engine and a suite of full featured tools. Main updates includes: New 3dsMax Exporter: Mesh export, material export, texture export and converting, skeletal animation support; Integrated tool for converting textures into different formats; Particle systems optimizations; Terrain: Fixed pipeline support. Also license conditions are changed: Cost of Commercial License reduced to 395$; Period for free updates of Indie and Commercial licenses increased up to two years.

ThreeDify releases OpenGL based ActiveSolid 2.6.9 for Microsoft Office

Posted: May 15th, 2009, 6:39am MDT

Tags: General

ThreeDify releases OpenGL based ActiveSolid for Microsoft Office, an affordable 3D report enabler for knowledge workers. With this release, users can create, edit and markup 3D models directly inside Excel and Word; generate LOP (List of Object Properties) or BOM (bill of material); create 2D snapshots from 3D designs right inside Excel or Word and save as part of Excel or Word file format.

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit v2.2 offers improved OpenGL performance

Posted: May 11th, 2009, 6:53am MDT

Tags: Applications

NVIDIA released an update to their CUDA Toolkit and SDK for GPU Computing, to version 2.2. A few of the major new features include support for Microsoft 7, improved performance of OpenGL applications running OpenGL graphics functions on different GPUs, profiling of C coded applications to use the computers GPU as well as the CPU and the ability to read and write from pinned system memory.

NVIDIA releases update to OpenGL 3.1 drivers

Posted: May 5th, 2009, 11:11am MDT

Tags: General

NVIDIA just released an update to their OpenGL 3.1 drivers for Linux and Windows, which implement full support for OpenGL 3.1 and GLSL 1.40. Specifically, the previously missing UBO functionality as well as several bug fixes are included in this release.

Tech Soup announces its first OpenGL 3 training course

Posted: May 5th, 2009, 7:50am MDT

Tags: Developers

Tech Soup announces its first OpenGL 3 training course, July 20-23, 2009, in Washington DC. The course covers new features in OpenGL 3, porting strategies, the OpenGL Shading Language, and 3D graphics concepts. Students learn the mechanisms behind fast, efficient, current 3D graphics with OpenGL 3 in a hands-on environment featuring several coding labs. Visit the Tech Soup web site to register online.

Call for Authors: ShaderX8

Posted: May 4th, 2009, 10:50am MDT

Tags: Developers

After the tremendous success of the first seven entries to the ShaderX book series, we are looking for authors for ShaderX8. The upcoming book will cover advanced rendering techniques that run on the DirectX and/or OpenGL run-time or any other run-time with any language available. It will include topics on: Geometry Manipulation; Rendering Techniques; Handheld Devices Programming; Effects in Image Space; Shadows; 3D Engine Design; Graphics Related Tools; Environmental Effects. This time we will additionally have a section dedicated to mathematics for graphics programmers. Proposals are due by May 19th, 2009. Please send them to wolf at shaderx.com. An example proposal, writing guidelines and a FAQ can be found here. If you already downloaded this package, please download it again. There is an updated ShaderX FAQ in there. The schedule is available here.

AMD FireGL accelerators and MachStudio Pro change the nature of 3D workflows on the desktop

Posted: April 28th, 2009, 6:40pm MDT

Tags: Processors

A few weeks ago, AMD announced a strategic partnership with StudioGPU to develop MachStudio Pro. Using the GPU, MachStudio Pro makes possible real-time 3D workflows for lighting and FX. I recently had a chance to play with the software and have posted initial impressions. Check out the test render of a scene of 2.2 million polygons, rendered on a FireGL V8650 at 1024 X 576. The 99 frames rendered in under 45 sec. and include mutliple light sources, soft shadows, gels, and ambient occlusion.

Rendering in OpenGL faster with Bindless Graphics

Posted: April 27th, 2009, 11:39am MDT

Tags: Developers

NVIDIA just released a new and faster way of rendering with OpenGL, called Bindless Graphics. Bindless Graphics are changes to OpenGL that can enable close to an order of magnitude improvement in the CPU-limitedness of graphics applications. Recent improvements in programmability have focused on additional flexibility in shaders (expanding formats to include more float and integer types, better branching support, etc.) and enabling new features (geometry programs, transform feedback, etc), and while some of these allow offloading parts of certain workloads to the GPU, they don’t directly attack the issues that dominate CPU time.

Bindless Graphics is enabled through two OpenGL extensions. NV_shader_buffer_load and NV_vertex_buffer_unified_memory. You can read the Bindless graphics tutorial for more detail. Post your experiences on this OpenGL forum thread.

Caustic Graphics releases CausticRT with CausticOne—an OpenGL based API

Posted: April 23rd, 2009, 8:50am MDT

Tags: Applications, Processors

Caustic Graphics has released CausticRT(TM), the worlds only massively accelerated raytracing system for achieving breakthrough levels of quality in interactive, cinema-quality 3D computer graphics. With this release, Caustic Graphics includes the CausticOne(TM) raytracing accelerator card and the CausticGL(TM) programming API based on OpenGL.

5-day intensive OpenGL™ ES & EGL training seminar

Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 6:15am MDT

Tags: General

Intelligraphics, Inc., a leader in device driver and system level software development, today announced a 5-day intensive OpenGL™ ES & EGL training course. This course is tailor-made with driver developers in mind primarily focusing on OpenGL™ v1.1 and ES v2.0 for embedded systems development. The course also presents EGL v1.3 concepts and programming for creating drawing surfaces and initializing contexts. Although the main focus of the class is OpenGL™ for embedded systems it also serves as a great primer for any version of OpenGL™ since ES v1.x was derived from OpenGL™ v1.5 and ES v2.0 was derived from OpenGL™ v2.0. This course is designed for programmers who will be writing graphics applications, demos and test cases with OpenGL™ ES for the embedded environment. The class is intended for both driver and application developers. Developers will benefit from the class by obtaining an in-depth understanding of the OpenGL™ ES API and the OpenGL™ graphics pipeline.

NVIDIA Releases OpenCL Driver To Developers

Posted: April 20th, 2009, 11:10am MDT

Tags: Developers

NVIDIA has released its OpenCL driver and software development kit (SDK) to developers participating in its OpenCL Early Access Program. NVIDIA is providing this release to solicit early feedback in advance of a beta release which will be made available to all GPU Computing Registered Developers in the coming months.

NVIDIA announces new Quadro professional GPU solutions

Posted: April 1st, 2009, 6:26am MDT

Tags: General, Processors

NVIDIA took professional graphics to a new level with the launch of its intelligent lineup of Quadro professional GPU solutions. It is the industry's most powerful and advanced line of professional graphics solutions supporting OpenGL 3.1 and GLSL 1.40, for both the Windows and Linux platforms. Features and capabilities include: the first and ONLY 4GB graphics cards, up to 240 parallel processing cores; innovative SLI Multi-OS capability; 10-bit gray scaling; SDI support and 30-inch digital display support through DisplayPort and Dual Link DVI connectors.

Spanning from sub-$100 entry-level to $3,500 ultra-high end, this new series includes:

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 - the industry's first and only 4GB, ultra high-end solution delivers the highest visualization performance and capabilities, enabling professionals to work with large-scale models and datasets.
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 - ultra high-end solution provides professionals with the most complete toolset to dramatically push the boundaries of realism, performance, and quality.
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 - single slot solution with a robust feature set and added capabilities such as SLI Multi-OS and SDI support to enable a no-compromise, high-performance, interactive visualization experience.
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 - mid-range solution offers the best price performance for workstation graphics and provides the optimal blend of quality, precision, performance, and programmability.
NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 - best-in-class entry-level solution boosts productivity for a variety of industry-leading volume CAD and digital content applications.
NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 - an affordable professional-class graphics solution extends energy efficiency while delivering 50-percent faster performance.
The Quadro NVS 295 - capable of supporting up to two 30-inch digital displays at maximum resolutions, taking business graphics to a new level visual perfection.

For additional information about the complete lineup of NVIDIA Quadro professional solutions, please visit: www.nvidia.com/quadro.

NeoAxis Game Engine 0.8 - Now with Networking Support

Posted: April 1st, 2009, 6:24am MDT

Tags: Applications

NeoAxis Group Ltd has just released next update of its modern 3D game engine using the Ogre3D for rendering (OpenGL and Direct3D). After many years of development we have crossed the line regarding user experience and providing developers with up to date capabilities to create new and exciting game titles with the power of unique approach looking ahead to a new level of visual game creation tools. NeoAxis Engine is a complete integrated development environment for creating interactive 3D graphics including 3D virtual worlds, AAA games, and realistic simulations. The system comprised of both a real-time 3D engine and a suite of full featured tools.

Norbyte releases Rainbow Painter 3 OpenGL based image editor

Posted: April 1st, 2009, 6:20am MDT

Tags: Applications

Norbyte today announced the release of Rainbow Painter 3, a major update to its image editing software for Mac and PC. The program relies on OpenGL to display its 3D GUI. Aimed at professionals and amateurs alike, the new version comes with exciting new features and technologies. It supports 32-bit float/channel HDR, which permits adjustments to be made back and forth without losing quality. There is also a revolutionary new pattern editing mode, which puts the old technique of using a so called “Offset Filter” to achieve seamless tiles to shame. When switching on the repeat function in Rainbow Painter (horizontally, vertically or both), not only will the image be displayed repeatedly, but all effects support this mode and brush strokes will continue over the edges when drawing.

The Open Toolkit 0.9.7 released with OpenGL 3.1 support

Posted: March 30th, 2009, 6:31am MDT

Tags: Developers

The Open Toolkit is a free, cross-platform OpenGL/OpenAL wrapper for C# and other .Net/Mono languages. This release introduces OpenGL 3.1 support, improves the type-safety of the 3.0 bindings and enables automatic error checking for OpenGL.

ATI ships FirePro V7750 with 1 GB frame buffer and OpenGL 3 support

Posted: March 30th, 2009, 6:28am MDT

Tags: Processors

The new ATI FirePro V7750 offers 1 GB frame buffer, OpenGL 3 support, 2 Display-Ports, 30-bit graphics pipeline, GPGPU support and more. But the got-to-have-it news is the price of $899

Mesa 7.4 OSS implementation of OpenGL released

Posted: March 30th, 2009, 6:28am MDT

Tags: Developers

Mesa is a free and open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification. Mesa 7.4 is the latest stable release and implements the OpenGL 2.1 API and brings support for GLSL version 1.20. Intel DRI drivers now use GEM and DRI2.

AMD shows OpenCL-based Havoc physics at GDC

Posted: March 27th, 2009, 8:57am MDT

Tags: Developers

AMD showed off OpenCL-accelerated Havok gaming physics at the 2009 Game Developers Conference.

Ardor3D, a Java OpenGL 3D engine, releases version 0.4

Posted: March 26th, 2009, 9:16am MDT

Tags: Developers

Ardor3Ds Development team is proud to announce the 0.4 release of their API. This new release features many new API enhancements as well as improvements to process to make it easier to develop with the technology.

Algoryx releases OpenGL based Algodoo - Phun Edition

Posted: March 24th, 2009, 1:54pm MDT

Tags: Applications

Algoryx Simulation AB, Umeå, Sweden, today announced the release of Algodoo - Phun Edition for download. Algodoo is a 2D-simulation environment for creating interactive scenes in a playful, cartoony manner, making use of the physics that we use to explain our real world. It utilizes OpenGL for eye pleasing cartoon style rendering of physics simulations. The Phun Edition is free for personal non-commercial use and is a substantially updated version of its popular precursor, Phun 2D Physics Sandbox.

NVIDIA is committed to the rapid adoption of OpenGL 3.1 - beta drivers available now

Posted: March 24th, 2009, 12:11pm MDT

Tags: Processors

NVIDIA is committed to the rapid adoption of OpenGL 3.1 and we are proud to release our beta drivers on the same day as the specification itself. Drivers for both the Windows and Linux platforms are available and can be downloaded here.

Caustic announces CausticRT using CausticGL based on OpenGL and CausticOne hardware

Posted: March 12th, 2009, 7:47am MDT

Tags: Applications, Processors

Caustic Graphics CausticRT™ is a raytracing acceleration system made up of the revolutionary CausticOne™ graphics accelerator card, and the CausticGL™ programming API. CausticOne enables your CPU/GPU to render stunning 3D imagery 20x faster than it can today. CausticGL is built on the OpenGL and OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) APIs. Jon Peddie Research says “Caustic Graphics has made the breakthrough with a combination of a small hardware accelerator and some very innovative software-this is an amazing accomplishment.”

Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice - new book discussing GLSL shaders

Posted: March 12th, 2009, 7:41am MDT

Tags: Developers

A new book will be available in May, “Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice” by Mike Bailey and Steve Cunningham. This book discusses GLSL shaders, explaining how they work and showing many examples of what can be done with them. Vertex, fragment, and geometry shaders are covered, as well as the OpenGL-GLSL API calls. The book is intended both as a text for classes to use, and as a step-by-step approach to learning GLSL on one’s own. The book is available at A.K. Peters Ltd and Amazon.

Yogurtistan Brings Easy 3D to the browser with Flash 10 and OpenGL compatibility

Posted: March 11th, 2009, 2:14pm MDT

Tags: Applications

Yogurt is showing off their engine for its upcoming virtual world, Yogurtistan.The engine runs in Flash 10 with no other plugins required and is compatible with OpenGL, which means it could eventually work with the iPhone via OpenGL ES. Until then, it also makes it easier for developers to translate their OpenGL games via Yogurt’s engine to Flash and for the company to include services like P2P voice and media in its world.

ToyRacers beta now available - based on OpenGL and GLSL

Posted: March 9th, 2009, 7:33am MDT

Tags: Applications

A beta version of ToyRacers was released and is available for free download. The game features OpenGL graphics using GLSL for shaders - including perpixel lighting, shadowmapping and -volumes. The game offers splitscreen and singleplayer mode. Take it for a spin! Feedback and comments are very welcome.

AsdGraph3D v1.5 using OpenGL to create X-Y-Z 3D graphs in Excel

Posted: March 9th, 2009, 6:07am MDT

Tags: Applications

AsdGraph3D Excel Add-in version 1.5 is an OpenGL Excel Add-in allowing users to easily create true X-Y-Z 3D graphs with just a few mouse clicks. Selected X, Y and Z cell ranges do not have to be of same dimension or size (they will be intelligently auto-resized!). Version 1.5 also adds the support for pivot-table like data format.

Open Toolkit 0.9.5 C# wrapper for OpenGL released

Posted: March 9th, 2009, 6:06am MDT

Tags: Developers

This release introduces OpenGL 3.0 support on Linux, adds inline documentation to the OpenGL API and fixes several bugs related to joystick input and the OpenGL wrappers. The Open Toolkit is a free, strongly-typed and cross-platform C# wrapper for OpenGL and OpenAL. It is compatible with all .Net languages and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Mazatech’s AmanithVG reaches new milestone

Posted: March 6th, 2009, 9:31am MST

Tags: Developers

Mazatech has released a new version of the AmanithVG engine (now AmanithVG GLE). AmanithVG GLE is an high performance software library for 2D vector graphics, layered on top of OpenGL fixed pipeline and OpenGL ES 1.0+ CM, based on OpenVG 1.0.1 and OpenVG 1.1 specifications. This new milestone implements the whole OpenVG 1.1 features set just using the fixed pipeline, two texture units and a single auxiliary buffer (depth or stencil) only. AmanithVG GLE exploits all available GL extensions to accelerate the rendering and, where it’s not possible, it uses few smart software fallbacks to implement a really small subset of the OpenVG pipeline. Evaluation builds are available for download on the AmanithVG website. AmanithVG internal testsuite results, as well as tests sources, are available on the GLE tests page and the SRE tests page.

AMD releases GPU Association extension to bind an OpenGL render context to a specific GPU

Posted: March 4th, 2009, 6:12am MST

Tags: Developers

The new WGL_AMD_GPU_association allows applications to make the decision of what work to task to each GPU. A workstation application can use this extension to determine what types of GPUs are in a system and pick which contexts to allocate on each GPU. This allows a workstation application, especially those that do off-screen rendering, to process multiple images or datasets simultaneously and combine the final image for display. The decision of how to divide up the work is left to the application.

Redsdk 2.0 released with Redmaterials

Posted: March 3rd, 2009, 8:52am MST

Tags: Developers

OpenGL based Redsdk is the first graphics Software Development Kit which integrates real-time 2D & 3D visualization as well as photo-realistic rendering from a single API. Thanks to its patented hybrid CPU/GPU ray tracer called RED, Redsdk significantly reduces the processing time of still images and animations.

S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX

Posted: March 2nd, 2009, 10:48am MST

Tags: Processors

S3 Graphics announced an 850MHz clocked GDDR3 based Chrome 540 GTX graphics processor. The S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX gives multimedia users the perfect balance of DirectX 10.1 / OpenGL 3.0 graphics performance, high-quality Picture-in-Picture Blu-ray playback, and a high-speed, high-throughput 64-bit GDDR3 memory bus interface running at 850 MHz.

EVEREST 5.0 Corporate EVEREST Corporate released with OpenGL 3.0 support

Posted: March 2nd, 2009, 10:42am MST

Tags: Applications

EVEREST Corporate Edition is an automated network audit, system change tracking and network monitoring solution for small and large corporate enterprises, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. Now with support for OpenGL 3.0 with OpenGL version compliancy test. OpenGL video adapter information for the latest GPUs including ATI Radeon HD 43xx/45xx/46xx/48xx, nVIDIA GeForce GTX 285, GeForce GTX 295, S3 Chrome 530 GT. OpenGL properties, shader features and extensions listing with OpenGL 3.0 support. New OpenGL version compliance test to verify hardware and driver compliance to various OpenGL interface revisions.

The Open Toolkit library 0.9.4 released

Posted: March 2nd, 2009, 7:18am MST

Tags: Developers

The latest version of the Open Toolkit library introduces support for OpenGL 3.0, joystick devices and the Mac OS X platform. The Open Toolkit library is a free, fast OpenGL & OpenAL wrapper for .Net. Its strongly-typed bindings catch typical OpenGL errors during compilation, making it very suitable for RAD development. The toolkit runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X without recompilation and can be used by all .Net languages.

Catalyst 9.2 supports three new OpenGL extensions

Posted: February 25th, 2009, 3:53pm MST

Tags: Developers

Catalyst 9.2 was released with support for three new OpenGL extensions: GL_EXT_bindable_uniform, GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent, WGL_AMDX_gpu_association. Catalyst 9.2 supports OpenGL 3.0 and fixes the glGetString(GL_VERSION) bug when an OpenGL 3.0 context is used. FurMark 1.6.0 runs successfully with Catalyst 9.2.

Wild Pockets 3D web engine in open beta

Posted: February 25th, 2009, 2:34pm MST

Tags: Applications

The Wild Pockets 3D web engine, an embedded web plugin that supports games and other 3D web content, has entered public beta. Wild Pockets uses OpenGL for its rendering engine and leverages the GLSL language internally for creation of shaders to support advanced lighting features (per-pixel lighting, normal maps, and gloss maps). Users can sign up for the public beta on the Wild Pockets website. The plugin is currently only Windows, but a Mac version is supposed to be out soon, according to the Wild Pockets website.

Linderdaum Engine adds GPU accelerated direct volume rendering

Posted: February 23rd, 2009, 7:48am MST

Tags: Developers

Linderdaum Engine was updated to version 0.5.89. It utilizes OpenGL 2.1 and GLSL to do a real-time direct volume rendering using GPU accelerated raycasting. Different rendering modes are supported including isosurface rendering, opacity accumulation and MIP.

OpenGL ES based ACCESS Linux Platform v3.0 unveiled at MWG

Posted: February 20th, 2009, 1:25pm MST

Tags: General

Version 3.0 of the ACCESS Linux Platform has been unveiled at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. The new version offers a richer user interface and compliance with LiMo. ACCESS has unveiled the next major version of its Linux-based mobile software platform. The ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) 3.0 brings a significant user interface overhaul with support for rich visual effects. It also boosts interoperability by delivering LiMo compliance. ALP’s new user interface takes advantage of these next-generation mobile hardware capabilities and OpenGL ES to facilitate richer interaction.

Nvidia Releases New WHQL GeForce Driver 182.06 with full support for OpenGL 3.0

Posted: February 19th, 2009, 11:39am MST

Tags: Processors

NVIDIA releases updated GeForce driver 182.06 for Windows. Along with a performance boost in several 3D applications, the latest release includes full support for OpenGL 3.0 on GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs.

OpenGL 3 - what types of changes to expect from your favorite 3D applications

Posted: February 19th, 2009, 10:05am MST

Tags: Developers

Now that OpenGL 3.0 is well on its way to a desktop nearby, you may be curious about what types of changes to expect from your favorite 3D applications. Nick Haemel from AMD points out FBOs, transform feedback, and VAOs in particular and how they map to application functionality.

OpenSceneGraph 2.8 with OpenGL draw instanced extension support

Posted: February 18th, 2009, 12:26pm MST

Tags: Developers

OpenSceneGraph 2.8 was recently released. Written entirely in Standard C++ and built upon OpenGL, OpenSceneGraph is the industry’s leading open-source scene graph technology, designed to accelerate application development and improve 3D graphics performance. Along with many updates this version sees OpenGL “draw instanced” extension support and improved COLLADA support.

Glest 3.2 OpenGL RTS and game engine released

Posted: February 16th, 2009, 9:45am MST

Tags: Applications

Glest 3.2, the free OpenGL real time strategy game and game engine has been released. This version features higher resolution shadow maps, more detailed 3D models, new tutorials and simplified user interface.

New Nvidia Video Drivers for Linux Bring OpenGL 3.0 Support

Posted: February 13th, 2009, 9:21am MST

Tags: Processors

NVIDIA releases an improved version of their proprietary video driver for the Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris operating systems. The new version, Nvidia 180.29, offers full OpenGL 3.0 support for all GeForce 8 and newer graphics cards. The new version offers full OpenGL 3.0 support for all GeForce 8 and newer graphics cards and provides support for the the GeForce 9300 GE and Quadro NVS 420 GPU’s.

CadFaster|QuickStep viewer tool for 3D professionals with OpenGL support released

Posted: February 13th, 2009, 9:05am MST

Tags: Applications

CadFaster|QuickStep is a completely new kind of viewer tool for 3D professionals. CadFaster|QuickStep supports both DirectX and OpenGL APIs and it is fully compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista©. Easy to use and cost effective with seamless DirectX and OpenGL integration.

OpenGL-based 3D Excel Addin AsdGraph3D version 1.5 is entering its beta stage

Posted: February 13th, 2009, 7:42am MST

Tags: Applications

OpenGL-based 3D Excel add-in AsdGraph3D version 1.5 is entering its beta stage.The add-in lets you easily create 3D graphs in Excel with the aid of OpenGL. The new version adds a substantial usability enhancement that allows user to easily select Excel cell ranges with mouse for use with AsdGraph3D (as X, Y, Z data ranges). Selected X, Y and Z cell ranges do not have to be of same dimension or size (they will be intelligently auto-resized!). Version 1.5 Beta also adds the support for pivot-table like format. AsdGraph3D is a Windows only add-in.

LinceoVR 3.0 released, OpenGL realtime AR & VR software for designers, free for the students

Posted: February 12th, 2009, 5:44am MST

Tags: Applications

Available online LinceoVR 3.0, based on Opengl libraries, uses the most advanced lighting technologies for visualising in real time 3D models in exceptional realistic computer graphics, glsl materials, ambient occlusion shadows, Opengl Quadbuffer stereoscopy, allowing one’s own product to be contextualised in the real world comparing the design with the competitor’s one and offering the final customer a virtual test of the products without the need to produce them. “A single tool that renders, interacts and sets in real time, approaching even more the creativity of the designer with the concreteness of the marketing manager” - comments Seac02’s Andrea Carignano, CEO –. We have developed this product bearing in mind that the entire chain can find application space, advantages and time optimisation.’ Students who want to use the linceoVRcan download the full free “student” edition.

New Maestro 3D Desktop scanner now available using OpenGL

Posted: January 30th, 2009, 10:24am MST

Tags: General, Applications

The last born in the family of three-dimensional scanner line Maestro. Renewed in the shape with a new Italian design. Smaller and lighter and more powerful, fast and easy to use. Maestro 3D is a three-dimensional scanner for dental and desktop applications, open and integrable in third party CAD/CAM solutions, complete with S.D.K. (Software Development Kit). Maestro 3D control software and user interface are build using AGE3D Engine. AGE3D is based on OpenGL/Direct3D, it has been created for the development of 3D applications with particular attention to the rendering of 3D data and development of games.

3D Models, Embedded Anywhere on the Web

Posted: January 28th, 2009, 2:07pm MST

Tags: General, Applications

Presto3D is the destination site for 3D artists looking to show off their artwork in 3D. Presto3D.com now allows 3D previews to be embedded anywhere on the web. Like YouTube, anyone can embed a preview of a 3D model on any website or blog. The preview will appear just as it does on Presto3D.com, and contain links back to other work by that artist. Unlike slower Flash-based or Java-based web solutions out there, Presto3D leverages OpenGL through its high-performance Feeling Engine to display rich COLLADA content.

ATI Catalyst driver 9.1 to add full support for OpenGL 3.0

Posted: January 28th, 2009, 2:00pm MST

Tags: General, Processors

The ATI Catalyst 9.1 driver will be the first official driver release with the full support for OpenGL 3.0 on Radeon HD 2400 and above. It is scheduled for public download on January 28, 2009. This release will enable full GL3.0 contexts on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Linux. Look for official FirePro support later in Q1. GL3 will be fully supported on current ATI FirePro V3700 and above cards as well as ATI Radeon HD 2400 and above with just a driver update.

Jacket 1.0 a GPU engine for MATLAB is released

Posted: January 27th, 2009, 9:24am MST

Tags: Applications

AccelerEyes has released Jacket 1.0 Engine for MATLAB. Jacket enables standard MATLAB code to run on any NVIDIA CUDA-capable GPU, from the GeForce 8400 to the Tesla C1060. Jacket introduces new data types to MATLAB which let you move your data and computations to the GPU. Included with Jacket is the Graphics Toolbox for MATLAB which integrates the computational engine with the full OpenGL capabilities of the GPUs.

AMD launches OpenGL 2.0 capable 760G platform

Posted: January 19th, 2009, 7:47am MST

Tags: Processors

AMD released its 760G Platform chipset this morning. This chipset capable of DirectX 10 and full OpenGL 2 graphics should make gaming possible even on low-cost systems by marrying the 760G platform to the Athlon X2 7000.

Algoryx releases Algodoo - novel physics educational software utilizing OpenGL

Posted: January 19th, 2009, 6:38am MST

Tags: Applications

Algoryx releases Algodoo - novel physics educational software optimized for the Intel-powered convertible classmate PC. Algodoo utilizes OpenGL for rendering and is optimized for the integrated Intel GMA950 graphics card on the classmate PC. Algodoo is a 2D-simulation environment for creating interactive scenes in a playful, cartoony manner, making use of the physics that we use to explain our real world. Algodoo is designed to encourage young people’s own creativity, ability and motivation to construct knowledge. The synergy of science and art makes Algodoo as educational as it is entertaining.

‘Modern OpenGL: Its Design and Implementation’ SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 course slides available

Posted: January 12th, 2009, 2:38pm MST

Tags: General

These slides were presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 for the ‘Modern OpenGL: Its Design and Evolution’ course. A long-time implementer of OpenGL (Mark Kilgard, NVIDIA) and the system’s original architect (Kurt Akeley, Microsoft) explain OpenGL’s design and evolution. OpenGL’s state machine is now a complex data-flow with multiple programmable stages. OpenGL practitioners can expect candid design explanations, advice for programming modern GPUs, and insight into OpenGL’s future.

The slides are also available from the Khronos Developer library here.

CADRazor Version 3.10 with OpenGL at its core, is now available

Posted: January 12th, 2009, 2:37pm MST

Tags: Applications

Hyperion-CADRazor Verison 3.10 which runs on OpenGL is now available for download. CADRazor is a general purpose CAD/FEA manipulation tool. With CADRazor, you can read in multiple 3D model formats: STL, OBJ, MESH, DXF, BDF, F3D. Once your model is loaded you can copy-translate, copy-rotate, scale, shift, grab and pull grid points, clip and crop the model, change color and export portions to any of the 3D formats. Animations can be created by selecting portions of the screen. Use Flyboy to do detailed walk-around reviews and drag-drop models for a build-as-you go methodology.

‘Modern OpenGL: Its Design and Implementation’ SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 course slides available

Posted: January 12th, 2009, 6:38am MST

Tags: General

These slides were presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 for the ‘Modern OpenGL: Its Design and Evolution’ course. A long-time implementer of OpenGL (Mark Kilgard, NVIDIA) and the system’s original architect (Kurt Akeley, Microsoft) explain OpenGL’s design and evolution. OpenGL’s state machine is now a complex data-flow with multiple programmable stages. OpenGL practitioners can expect candid design explanations, advice for programming modern GPUs, and insight into OpenGL’s future.

The slides are also available from the Khronos Developer library here.

CADRazor Version 3.10 with OpenGL at its core, is now available

Posted: January 12th, 2009, 6:37am MST

Tags: Applications

Video input and output—direct to OpenGL textures
Extended developer tools and GUI
Parallax bump mapping for SuperShader using pixel shaders
Minor feature extensions and documentation on all classes

FPS Express lets you easily make OpenGL based 3D shooter games

Posted: November 24th, 2008, 5:56pm MST

Tags: Applications

FPS Express allows you to make first-person 3D shooter game with ease and without any knowledge of programming. FPSE uses OpenGL renderer with vertex/pixels shaders 2.0 for drawing entire level and enemy objects. For high quality of rendering, specular normalmapping is used. Requirements include a graphics card with support for OpenGL 1.6 and vertex/fragment shaders 2.0 and Windows 98/XP/2000/Vista.

FurMark 1.5.0 OpenGL Stability Test Tool Available

Posted: November 24th, 2008, 5:53pm MST

Tags: Applications

FurMark, the popular graphics card stability test and OpenGL graphics benchmark has been released with bugfixes and new features. FurMark is a very intensive OpenGL benchmark that uses fur rendering algorithms to measure the performance of the graphics card. Fur rendering is especially adapted to overheat the GPU and that’s why FurMark is also a perfect stability and stress test tool (also called GPU burner) for the graphics card.

S3 Graphics Chrome 530 GT supports OpenGL 3.0

Posted: November 24th, 2008, 3:58pm MST

Tags: Processors

Linux support - OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 functionality support between the Linux and Windows releases are identical.
Now allows rendering to a FBO with mixed-size attachments
VAO bug fixes and performance improvements
EXT_texture_swizzle support
Transform feedback missing functionality is implemented
Various other bug fixes

NeoAxis Group Ltd has been released next update of its an modern 3D game engine using the Ogre3D for rendering (OpenGL and Direct3D). The new user-friendly site makes it easy to find all necessary information about the NeoAxis game engine. The site contains enhanced descriptions of the NeoAxis game engine, its features and our support options. Have a closer look on the new lists of featured projects and 3rd party add-ons to learn more about the capabilities of this engine. Updates of the NeoAxis Engine 0.58:

Smooth depth shadows
Support for convex hulls (makes modelling easier and gives game developers more options)
Much better artwork for TankDemo and RTSDemo
Support for swizzled DXT5 normal maps
Increased performance
Bug fixes

NeoAxis Engine is an all-purpose, modern 3D graphics engine for 3D simulations, visualizations and games.

Big Nerd Ranch announces iPhone Bootcamp with drawing in OpenGL

Posted: October 6th, 2008, 7:56pm MDT

Tags: Developers

Big Nerd Ranch is offering an iPhone Bootcamp which includes dealing with drawing using Core Graphics, Core Animation, and OpenGL. iPhone Bootcamp is designed for developers who want to write applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Pre-requisites for the course are good knowledge of C and one object-oriented language. There are five courses being offered from October through February 2009. Complete details can be found on the event page.

Graphic Remedy gDEBugger Incorporates S3 Graphics Chrome GPU OpenGL Hardware and Software Support

Posted: October 6th, 2008, 7:45pm MDT

Tags: Applications

S3 Graphics and Graphic Remedy, an innovative provider of OpenGL performance tools announced the support of the latest Chrome 400 Series GPUs with the gDEBugger performance measurement utility. The Chrome 400 Series GPUs support the latest OpenGL 2.1 API and hardware HD video decode for Blu-ray™ playback.

Free Open Source iPhone & iPod Touch OpenGL ES 3D Engine

Posted: October 6th, 2008, 6:31pm MDT

Tags: Developers

The first release of SIO2 is now available, using OpenGL ES as the drawing API. Written in pure C using a bit of obj-c & C++ to glue things together, SIO2 is a light and flexible 3D engine for the next generation of mobile devices. This first release includes everything required to get started:

realtime physic (Bullet)
realtime MP3 (.ogg) using OpenAL & MPEG4 playback (.ogv)
world editor WYSIWYG (Blender)
scripting language (LUA)
exporter, realtime lighting
accelerometer & multi-touch support as well as many other features.

It is build around the official iPhone SDK (2.0 and up) for Mac OS X. Video tutorials, code samples, documentations, forums etc, are available to help you create your own 3D applications for iPhone & iPod Touch. A video showing some of the features is available on YouTube.

GLee adds support for OpenGL 3.0

Posted: October 6th, 2008, 3:43pm MDT

Tags: Developers

The GLee extension library has added support for OpenGL 3.0. GLee takes the pain out of managing OpenGL extensions and core functions. It’s compatible with Windows, OS X and many unix variants, including Linux. In addition to OpenGL 3.0 support, version 3.0 adds 36 new extensions, bringing the total to 398.

AsdGraph3D Excel Addin v1.3.0 released

Posted: October 6th, 2008, 2:54pm MDT

Tags: Applications

OpenGL based AsdGraph3D Excel Addin v1.3.0 adds dockable graph legends and multi-lined graph title, as well as two critical bug fixes.

Horde3D 1.0 Beta2 Released

Posted: September 29th, 2008, 2:41pm MDT

Tags: Applications

The new Horde3D Beta2 release contains many bugfixes and smaller updates reported and contributed by the community. Besides these, it brings some noticeable improvements like increased shadow quality and extended occlusion culling. A further important enhancement is the expanded support for dynamic resource updates. On the Collada side, the compatibility was improved by supporting non-baked animation data. Finally, the previous makefile system has been replaced by CMake-based build scripts.

S2PLOT version 2.4 released

Posted: September 29th, 2008, 2:36pm MDT

Tags: Applications

S2PLOT, an OpenGL-based library for advanced three-dimensional plotting, version 2.4 is released. Support for standard and enhanced (3D and stereoscopic) display devices. This is an intermediate release offering a range of new features, as well as some important system changes. New features include:

a new open source S2PLOT application - s2anim - for displaying time-series of point-like data
functions to draw wireframe and transparent solid cubes
functions to draw textured spheres with control over the orientation of the texture In total 23 new functions have been added

The architectural changes are more significant than feature additions in version 2.4, as they are necessitated by the forthcoming Open Source release of S2PLOT.

TimeCube 1.02 released - OpenGL 2.0 based cube for windows

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 9:52pm MDT

Tags: Applications

The TimeCube is quite a useless program - but nice to look at! It displays a transparent rotating cube which displays the current time and date. The cube is rendered offscreen using OpenGL 2.0 with shaders, cube map reflection, specular lighting, bumpmapping. All the bells and whistles. Eight different shaders are compiled in, and the best looking one will automatically be chosen to suite your graphics card.

NVISION 08: GeForce 8 Features for OpenGL

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 9:47pm MDT

Tags: General

Mark Kilgard explains the latest DirectX 10-class features of OpenGL supported by the GeForce 8, 9, and 28x series of NVIDIA GPUs. Much of this functionality is already part of OpenGL 3.0. Also learn about the EXT_direct_state_access extension for selector-free access to OpenGL objects.

SGI posts new advanced OpenGL course

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 4:24pm MDT

Tags: Developers

SGI has posted a new advanced OpenGL course for October 2008. The Advanced OpenGL Programming course is intended for software professionals and students who already have experience with OpenGL programming and want to learn advanced concepts.

Irrlicht Engine 1.4.2 Released!

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 2:40pm MDT

Tags: Applications

The Irrlicht dev team is happy to announce the release of Irrlicht version 1.4.2 of their open source, high performance, realtime, cross-platform 3D engine, written and usable in C++. This is a bugfix update of the 1.4 series, fixing the OpenGL SW render fallback problem of 1.4.1. But it also provides several other bugfixes and enhancements, such as:

Unified handling of the zwrite enable flag for transparent materials for compatibility with older Irrlicht versions. There are now functions in the scenemanager to enable/disable ZWrite flags of transparent materials.
Improvements of the file loaders, OpenGL renderer, memory usage
Optimization of the skeletal animation rendering code See changes.txt in the SDK for details.

The most recent Catalyst 8.9 Linux driver enables use of multiple FireGL and FirePro cards to act as a single X server that spans multiple displays, each using OpenGL acceleration. This 10 minute video shows four FireGL v5600 cards driving eight monitors running FlightGear under Ubuntu 8.04. It joins a similar MultiView example from Siggraph 2008.

OpenGL based Leadwerks Engine Evaluation Kit released

Nick Haemel (AMD) blog post: OpenGL 3.0 - A Big Step in the Right Direction

Posted: August 18th, 2008, 8:30pm MDT

Tags: General

With the SIGGRAPH OpenGL BOF now past, Nick Haemel from AMD has written a blog post about OpenGL 3 and the reasoning behind the choices made. “After testing an approach that would have a drastic effect on the API, requiring complete OpenGL application rewrites and not introducing any of the long awaited features modern GPUs are capable of OpenGL 3.0 takes two important steps to moving open standard graphics forward in a major way. The first is to provide core and ARB extension access to the new capabilities of hardware. The second is to create a roadmap that allows developers to see what parts of core specifications will be going away in the future, also providing the OpenGL ARB with a way to introduce new features faster.”

SIGGRAPH 2008 Student Volunteer program blogs on OpenGL-related news - Wed & Thurs

Posted: August 18th, 2008, 8:29pm MDT

Tags: General

SIGGRAPH 2008 Student Volunteer program working with OpenGL.org and FireUser.com have posted thier final blog reports from the SIGGRAPH 2008 Conference and Exhibition.

Wednesday
- CUDA Quadro Plex 2200 D2 does real-time ray tracing
- Whisper quiet OpenGL workstations from AMAX
- DreamColor 30-bit display using Display Port
- OpenGL sessions make big impression

Thursday
- modo 302 has top notch modeling and unwrapping tools with real-time OpenGL rendering
- XSI’s ICE node-based programing enables visual programming of multi-threaded real-time interactive FX

NVIDIA SDK 10.5 Updated

Posted: August 18th, 2008, 5:23pm MDT

Tags: Developers

NVIDIA has updated their SDK 10.5. This all-new collection of OpenGL and DirectX 10 code samples teaches developers how to make the most of GeForce 8 Series GPUs. The OpenGL and DirectX SDKs include a browser, clear code samples, detailed whitepapers, and videos.

AsdGraph3D Excel Addin v1.2.1 freeware released!

Posted: August 18th, 2008, 5:05pm MDT

Tags: General

AsdGraph3D is an OpenGL-based Excel Addin that plots 3D points, lines, line segments, surfaces or water-tight solids directly from user-specified cell ranges within MS Excel worksheets (of one or several open workbooks). Unlike other 3D plotters, AsdGraph3D works seamlessly within Excel, i.e., no flipping back and forth between Excel and a separate, disjoint 3D plotting package. Version 1.2.1 includes both AsdGraph3D Standard (freeware) and AsdGraph3D Professional.

OpenGL BOF went over well, no pitch forks seen

Posted: August 15th, 2008, 1:56pm MDT

Tags: General

idr was here has a nice round-up on the OpeGL BOF. The author, Ian Romanick found “contrary to the /. reports, nobody was furious.” One commenter compares the release of OpenGL 3.0 similar to what KDE went through: “it’s a repeat of the business with KDE 4.0. KDE 4.0 was simply the finalization of the libraries and API’s so that application developers could start building their applications against a stable base.” As the dust settles, OpenGL 3.0 is looking a lot stronger than it did on day one.

SIGGRAPH 2008 Student Volunteer program blogs on OpenGL-related news - Mon & Tues

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 7:33pm MDT

Tags: General

OpenGL.org and FireUser.com are working with the SIGGRAPH 2008 Student Volunteer program to give students the opportunity to blog about what they are seeing at the SIGGRAPH 2008 Conference and Exhibition. Below are OpenGL-related summaries from Mon and Tues.

Monday
- Stereoscopic 3D (available via Quad Buffering in OpenGL) has a huge presence at the show, particularly stereoscopic 3D for gaming and film / broadcast.
- HP and Dell and Lenovo all announce OpenGL-based 3D mobile workstations.

Tuesday
- Maya 2009 adds a new particle system that doesn’t require writing expressions. It also has a built-in stereo camera rig. Stereo 3D support is apparently being added to all Autodesk products.
- Two student took a tour of the AMD booth to check out OpenGL accelerated real-time lighting, the Radeon Froblin demo, and the new FirePro line.

SPECviewperf 10.1 to measure performance of apps using VBO

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 7:24pm MDT

Tags: General

The upcoming SPECviewperf 10.1 will add the ability to measure performance for applications incorporating vertex buffer objects (VBOs) and the latest OpenGL shaders. The new SPECapc benchmarks will evaluate performance of Siemens PLM NX5, 3ds Max 2009, Maya 2009, and Lightwave 3D.

'Modern OpenGL: Its Design and Evolution' course at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 7:23pm MDT

Tags: General Developers

The inaugural SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 conference in Singapore is sponsoring a half-day course on Modern OpenGL on December 13th. A long-time implementer of OpenGL (Mark Kilgard) and the system’s original architect (Kurt Akeley) explain OpenGL’s design and evolution. OpenGL’s state machine is now a complex data flow with multiple programmable stages. In this course, OpenGL practitioners can expect candid design explanations, advice for programming modern GPUs, and insight into OpenGL’s future.

The Khronos™ Group announced today it has released the OpenGL® 3.0 specification

NVISION 2008 is coming to San Jose, California, August 25-27

Posted: July 7th, 2008, 1:58pm MDT

Tags: General

THE FIRST-EVER VISUAL COMPUTING MEGA-EVENT NVISION will gather together top visual computing professionals, world-class gamers, innovative artists and designers, and cutting-edge researchers to share their ideas, experiences, and passions, all into a 55 hour technical conference. Know OpenGL like the back of your hand? Scale GPUs or develop programs in your sleep? Then continue to read more about our Professional track at NVISION, and find out how to register today.

NVISION for Professionals delivers three days of direct interaction between NVIDIA technical management and you. NVISION is the only event where you have complete access to NVIDIA’s core architects and engineers over several days. These practical seminars and hands-on training sessions are designed to integrate these latest technologies into your current development cycle. Come to NVISION to go beyond learning what is state of the art and dive into how to exploit the power of the NVIDIA technology you currently have. Talk GPU Physics with PhysX team, ray tracing with mental images engineers, and high-performance computing with the CUDA team. And NVIDIA’s Chief Scientist David Kirk will present, for the first time, NVIDIA’s view of the future of graphics.

Here’s a sneek peek at just a few of the Visual Computing Professional sessions:
- OpenGL and the Future. OpenGL 2.1 presentation plus Q&A with our performance experts.
- Multi-GPU Scaling: Dual NVIDIA GPUs are shipping in laptops today. Do you scale to four GPUs and beyond?
- NVIDIA Scene Graph (NVSG): Learn about NVSG techniques and NVSG-based applications.

Tags: Applications

J & L Associates is pleased to release AsdGraph3D Excel Addin v1.2, an OpenGL based 3D plotter/visualizer within MS Excel. This new version adds silky smooth rotation with an ArcBall interface, an new option to plot data as paired line segments and the support for color attributes for individual data points.

AS3D Single Chip 3D Projector from Projectiondesign utilizing OpenGL

Horde3D 1.0 Beta1 released

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 4:54pm MDT

Tags: Developers

The latest release of the OpenGL 2.0 based graphics engine Horde3D brings the project to a stable version. After the implementation of several new features, among which occlusion culling, API based render-to-texture for real-time reflections, software skinning and support for stereo rendering are the most important ones, the engine can be considered as feature-complete and ready for productive use.

DI-Guy Human Simulation Software Version 9.0 Released

Posted: April 14th, 2008, 4:47pm MDT

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DI-Guy, industry-leading COTS software for Human Simulation, announced today that Version 9.0 is shipping. DI-Guy 9.0 provides an SDK with support for OpenGL and OpenSceneGraph on Windows and Linux. DI-Guy is an integrated suite of human simulation software that features SDK and AI for creating and visualizing everything from a single individuals actions to crowds with hundreds of characters. DI-Guy features a wide array of life-like characters that perform thousands of activities. The character set includes soldiers, civilians, flight deck crew, policemen, emergency response, opfor, suspects, bicyclists, wheelchairs, hundreds of vehicles, and animals. The soldiers come with a wide array of uniforms, weapons, and motions customized to those weapons. DI-Guy characters transition smoothly from one motion to the next so that the author can command high level behavior and let the software worry about the details. DI-Guy is used by all four branches of the US Armed Services.

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