Alright so I'm not the only one in that case. Thank you for answering. Is the book you spoke of worth buying? I mean would you recommend it over any other book speaking of OpenGL or did you simply pick a "random" book and found it not too bad so you bought it?
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Joe Morgan <josepht.mor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had the same thoughts as you. I wanted to learn WebGL before > learning how to use something like three.js. I landed on going through > the tutorials at learningwebgl.com, and every time I ran into a method > I was unfamiliar with, I looked up the corresponding OpenGL ES 2.0 > function to try to get an explanation on what is going on (http:// > www.khronos.org/opengles/sdk/docs/man/). > > I did the same thing with the mat4 matrix manipulation library. JaxGL, > which is another framework like three.js, nevertheless has good > documentation that includes the mat4 library functions (http:// > guides.jaxgl.com/api/js/mat4/index.html). > > I'm also reading through the OpenGL Super Bible, 4th edition. While > I'm like you and I don't want to try to sidetracked by trying to learn > C++, I've found that for the most part I can still understand the > examples, and the explanatory text in between has helped a lot in > understanding the functionality described in the OpenGL man pages. > > This 3-way cross referencing can't be the best way to learn WebGL, but > I don't think anyone's written a good book on the subject so it's the > best I've been able to figure out so far. > > - Joe > > > On Sep 11, 3:58 pm, Xavier MONTILLET <xavierm02....@gmail.com> wrote: >> First of of, thank you for answering. >> >> About OpenGL, I can't really do it that way since I only know web >> technologies and learning C just for that isn't really what I want. I >> will learn C someday but not now. >> >> About the MDN, starting from chapter 2, they use many libraries: >> - Sylvester >> - glUtils.js >> It's the thing I've found the closer to "raw" and I kind of managed to >> take the parts I needed in the libraries but it still doesn't explain >> me why it works... I have a code working but I don't know why... >> >> You second link is quite interesting, I'll read it. >> >> In fact, I don't really need a tutorial. There are plenty explaining >> the basic concepts all around the web. >> What I really need but can't find anywhere is a documentation of the >> API but as you just said it was build on OpenGL, I might find what I >> need by searching OpenGL instead of WebGL. >> >> Anyway, I'll continue reading and if I still can't understand what I >> want with what you just said, I'll come back ;) >> Thank you >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Poetro <poe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 2011/9/11 xavierm02 <xavierm02....@gmail.com>: >> >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to take a look at WebGL and started reading tutorials about it >> >> but >> >> every single tutorial relies on a library whereas I want to learn "raw" >> >> WebGL. >> >> My goal isn't to do some kind of product or to master it. I just want to >> >> understand the "low-level" APIs so that when I use libraries, I know what >> >> they're doing and if I ever need to I can take some time to read the >> >> source >> >> code and maybe fix some bugs. >> >> So do you know where I could learn "raw" WebGL? (I tried reading the spec >> >> to >> >> see the API but this thing is just impossible to understand ~.~) >> >> Thank you in advance. >> >> > If you want to know WebGL, maybe start with familiarizing yourself >> > with OpenGL ES 2.0, which is WebGL based on. I'm sure there are lot of >> > tutorials and books about OpenGL. Also there is a quite detailed >> > description on MDNhttps://developer.mozilla.org/en/WebGL. >> > There is also a blog, with a bunch of tutorials only about WebGL at >> >http://learningwebgl.com/. And I'm also sure, that typing WebGL into >> > your favorite search engine will give you fairly good results. >> >> > -- >> > Poetro >> >> > -- >> > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/jsment...@jsmentors.com/ >> >> > To search via a non-Google archive, visit >> > here:http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ >> >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
