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What’s your favourite “graphics newbie” resource (books, tutorials, blogs …) for otherwise-experienced programmers? (VR/AR-specific, if that’s relevant!) (kolektiva.social)

submitted 2 years ago by ELLIOTTCABLE to c/gamedev@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Cross-posted from the above:

So, I’m low-key thinking of writing my first-ever graphics-heavy software. (Specifically, to do with VR / UIs, but not gaming.)

Thing is, my experience is with PLT & compilers, distsys, FOSS … but extremely not graphics, GPUs, or single-host performance of pretty much any kind.

I need advice. If I want to learn some relatively-low-level graphics stuff, but I have zero relevant background; where do I start?

Any resources for me (tutorials, books, well-known starter projects?)

I got some great responses from the luminary @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place and ‪@mcc@mastodon.social‬ (fantastic thread linked above) amounting to ‘just learn Unity’; so that’s definitely leading my todo list at the moment; WebGPU and Godot also came up …

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