Jogl Tutorial

JogAmp's Static

• OpenGL Evolution & JOGL
• API Doc [ Public, Specs [ Nativewindow, JOGL ] ]
• How to Build JOGL
• Userguide
• Deployment
• JOGL Test Applets
  • using Object/Embed tags
  • using the Applet Tag
• NEWT - High Performance Native Windowing Toolkit
• OpenGL GL2ES2 GLSL Standalone Example by Xerxes Rånby
• Rudimentary standalone example using the fixed pipeline by Julien Gouesse
• Rudimentary standalone example using the fixed pipeline with OpenGL ES 1 by Xerxes Rånby

JogAmp's Wiki

• Downloading and installing JOGL
  • Versioning And Release Information
• Setting up a JogAmp project in your favorite IDE
• Deployment
  • JAR File Handling
  • Using JOGL in a Java Applet
  • Using JOGL in Java Web Start
  • Foreign Packaging
• JOGL
  • How to write cross GLProfile compatible shader using JOGL
  • How to use the Debug and Trace GL Pipeline and Debug GL Context
  • Using JOGL in AWT, SWT, and Swing
  • How to use X11 displays
• FAQ

Hello Triangle and Texture

Sample that features GL4, pure newt, glWindow options, animator, indexed drawing, dynamic attribute and frag data binding, interleaved data, vao, vbo (with normalization on one attribute), ibo (with shorts), uniform, glsl program (with specific suffix) and matrix jogl util, gl error check, key listener and right way to dispose.

There is also a gl3 version and a Texture sample.

All the samples are written in Java and Kotlin.

This example in pure Java is less difficult to use for newcomers but it requires Semantic.java.

Common Mistakes

I suggest you to take a read to these two pages for a quick overview over the most common problems, it is a very useful reading, legacy sections are carefully signaled.

OpenGL GLSL

Another common mistake that may happen if you port code from C/C++ to Java is this one:

Caused by: com.jogamp.opengl.GLException: unpack pixel_buffer_object must be bound to call this method at jogamp.opengl.gl4.GL4bcImpl.checkBufferObject(GL4bcImpl.java:40621) at jogamp.opengl.gl4.GL4bcImpl.checkUnpackPBOBound(GL4bcImpl.java:40707) at jogamp.opengl.gl4.GL4bcImpl.glTexImage2D(GL4bcImpl.java:5535) at tests.gl320.Gl_320_fbo_blit.initTexture(Gl_320_fbo_blit.java:199)

This happens because in C/C++, when you just want to allocate the space for a texture using, for example, glTexImage2D, you should not pass 0 as the last argument, but null.

N.B: The use of color picking is NOT recommended on any hardware whose palette is partially emulated.

Java OpenGL Samples Pack

The Java OpenGL Samples Pack (called unsurprisingly jogl-samples) is a port of the OpenGL Samples Pack, a collection of OpenGL samples based on the OpenGL "core profile" specifications.

The project aims to promote the new OpenGL features making easier version transitions for OpenGL programmers with a complementary documentation for the OpenGL specification. Despite the fact that the OpenGL Samples Pack provides as simple (and dumb) as possible samples, it's not a tutorial for beginner but a project for programmers already familiar with OpenGL. The OpenGL Samples Pack is also a good OpenGL drivers feature test.

These samples illustrate mostly of the OpenGL features from ES 2.0 up to the last GL extenstions, same of them usually also called AZDO (Almost Zero Driver Overhead).

Wade's JOGL tutorials

• Cross-platform workbench program using Eclipse and JOGL
• Faster rendering with vertex buffer objects
• Creating native binary executables for multi-platform Java apps with OpenGL and Eclipse RCP
• Displaying Java OpenGL in an Eclipse RCP editor with a menu bar and a run/pause button

Rami's JOGL tutorials

• Rami's Guide how to setup a JOGL Eclipse project

Justin's Getting Started with JOGL 2 Tutorials

• JOGL Tutorial 1 - Environment Setup
• JOGL Tutorial 2 - Creating a Window
• JOGL Tutorial 3 - Creating a Render Loop

Gordon and Clevenger textbook

Shader-based modern OpenGL 3D graphics programming textbook entirely in JOGL. Also works as a JOGL primer. "Computer Graphics Programming in OpenGL with Java" by V. Scott Gordon and John L. Clevenger, published by Mercury, available at Amazon.

Elect86's modern OpenGL examples

• Source code on Github

Nils Hoffmann's Netbeans Platform examples

• Source code on Github

Courses

• Yet Another Tutorial on JOGL 2.0 - Including Nehe JOGL Port (Chua Hock-Chuan's notes at Nanyang Tech. University)
• Johannes's Courses at University of Oldenburg (German)
• Manuel's Courses at European University of Lefke
  • Graphics in Java incl. 3D/JOGL
  • Advanced 3D Graphics in Java and Java OpenGL (JOGL 2)

LeoLoL.com Tutorials (Currently unreachable)

• Lesson 1 - Setting up a JOGL Template
• Lesson 2 - Drawing basic 2D shapes
• Lesson 3 - Adding colour
• Lesson 4 - 3D Shapes and Rotation

JOGL 1 tutorials

• Felix's OpenGL and JOGL

Ste3e's JOGL tutorials

• Keys and Mouse
• First-Person Shooter
• Vertex Buffer Objects
• Shader Setup
• Texture Using Shaders

(The old (not quite up-to-date) JOGL Userguide is currently available here)