#SOFTWARE FOR RENDER 3D STACKS AND VISUALIZE IT FULL#

If you want full software rendering, create window using winapi, allocate 2d buffer for a 'screen' (RGB format) and blit it onto window every frame using SetDIBitsToDevice or StretchDIBitsToDevice. Whether it is worth it or not, is another story. You can also declare missing constants yourself in your code.

However, you can load missing functions yourself using wglGetProcAddress. You could copy/paste required libraries/headers into subdirectory of your project, but then again, it is unclear if this would break the 'rules'.Īre the OpenGL 2.0 or similar libraries bundled with Visual Studio?ĭefault OpenGL header supports version 1.1 or something like that. Using DirectX most likely is out of question, because it normally requires installation of SDK. Quake3 engine did that, so you could do that to. Using something like SetDIBitsToDevice you could easily do full software rendering yourself.Īdvanced OpenGL features require wrapper library (like GLEW), but you can initialize extensions and advanced features yourself. You definitely can create a window and draw something on it with pure winapi. With default visual studio installation you don't get much. Not sure if that would break your 'rules', though. Because projects like libsdl use permissive licenses, you could do that.

#SOFTWARE FOR RENDER 3D STACKS AND VISUALIZE IT CODE#

You know, you can simply include code of whatever library you use into your project. Please could someone point me in the right direction for getting started with WinAPI If that's the case with your visual studio installations, then you won't be able to do any graphics at all with requirements you listed. Please note that some older versions of visual studio express couldn't compile windows application unless windows sdk is installed. (In case it is significant, I think we are using VS 2010.)

Please could someone point me in the right direction for getting started with WinAPI if this is the tool I need, and if not is there something else I can use instead? What about some sort of OpenGL libraries? Are the OpenGL 2.0 or similar libraries bundled with Visual Studio? This is not a 'can you do my homework for me' type of question. Am I correct? Essentially this is all I need to be able to do: Open a window then draw some lines on it. I have never used the Windows API before, however I get the feeling I might be able to use it to open a window and draw some 2d graphics within the window.

#SOFTWARE FOR RENDER 3D STACKS AND VISUALIZE IT PC#

The requirement is that my c++ code must be copied and pasted onto any Windows PC (with Visual Studio already installed) and then compiled/run from Visual Studio. However I cannot use SFML, as the libraries are not available by default on Windows. I could do this using something like SFML, which would certainly seem to be the logical thing to do. I am looking to make something a bit like asteroids, the retro 2D game, in c++. I am about to start my project for a university course unit.

Software for render 3d stacks and visualize it