3D Game Engine Programming

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C++ Fast Track for Games Programming Part 15: File I/O

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Robert Grigg

C++ Fast-track for Games Programming Part 15: File I/O

Before we continue with typical game related topics, you need to know a few more general techniques that will help you when you write your games. One of these techniques is file I/O. File I/O stands for Input/Output. You are of course already performing file I/O operations, for example when you load an image. However, this is handled by some image library (FreeImage). Sometimes, you simply want to store your own data.

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Loading and Animating MD5 Models with OpenGL

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Jeremiah

Bob with Lamp

In this article, I will show how you can load and animate models loaded from the MD5 model file format. In this article I will use OpenGL to render the models. I will not show how to setup an OpenGL application in this article. If you need to get a quick introduction on setting up an OpenGVL application, you can follow the “Beginning OpenGL for Game Programmers” article [here].

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