Monday 5 May 2014

Basic Simulation: Basic Gravity

Hi,

Today as promised I'll be posting simulation programming basics. That being said, today I will be talking and discussing about Gravity however unlike my initial plan we will not be using any equations for simplicity purposes for the beginner audience. The simulation programming will be using OpenGL as I want the simulation programmer to be able to see an visual representation of their success rather than have few numbers shown upon screen making this topic nothing but a mere boring mathematical incorporation of physics.

That being said, this tutorial will only be using basic OpenGL function such as glTranslatef(), glRectf() and other similar function. Next, this tutorial will neither make use of a timer as it could be too complicated for the user who messaged me for this tutorial to be created. That in mind, we will not be even using gravitational constants such as 9.81 m/s^2.

To be brutally honest, this tutorial is really designed to show how easily we can create programs using BASIC OpenGL functions that a beginner can learn and apply in matter of few hours. Here is the source:

Basic OpenGL Gravity

Bare in mind that the code is not too pretty in terms of implementation and using functions such as Sleep() as an "Pixel" slower to ensure that the user can actually see the dot fall similar to that of gravity. That being said, it was designed for an newbie.

Hope you learned something new,

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