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