Chapter 3. Graphics – Common Methods

This chapter will cover the following recipes:

• Creating a window in libSDL

• Creating surfaces

• Surfaces manipulation

• Using colors

• Cursor manipulation

• Initializing the graphics mode with OpenGL

• Getting OpenGL information

• Using OpenGL extensions with GLEW and Lua

• Loading images with SDL_image

• Creating textures

• Loading and using bitmap fonts

• Loading and using TrueType fonts

• Displaying the text

• Creating texture atlas with the rover-design pattern

• Using tiles and tilesets in the game