OpenGLContext A Learning Environment for PyOpenGL

Introduction

OpenGLContext is a testing and learning environment for PyOpenGL. It provides a generic scenegraph engine (based on VRML97's scenegraph model) as well as basic context creation and interaction support in multiple GUI environments.

Quick Links

• Documentation
• Installation
• Projects
• OpenGLContext
• OpenGLContext_qt
• PyVRML97
• TTFQuery
• Twitch BSP File Loader

Features

• Works on Multiple GUI Environments with Keyboard, Mouse and GUI events
• Pygame
• GLUT
• wxPython
• Qt (using the OpenGLContext_qt project)
• Provides Basic Interactivity
• 3D Flying Mode
• Selection rendering based on unique-color buffers
• Timer mechanisms and simple event handling
• Geometry Types
• Points (and Point-sprites)
• Lines
• Polygons
• Trimmed NURBs
• Extruded Shapes (with GLE)
• Spheres, Cylinders, Cones
• Textures (with PIL/Pillow), Materials
• Shader Scenegraph Nodes
• Optimizations
• Caching Infrastructure
• Frustum culling
• Node-path Calculations
• CPU-based calculations for forward/backward transformation matrices
• OBJ Loader
• VRML97 Loader (with SimpleParse installed)
• BSP (Quake(TM) 3 File Loader/Viewer, with the Twitch project installed)