OGLplus

OGLplus is a lightweight and practical development library aimed to provide users with the means of enhancing the capabilities of the software they design, yet saving the time required for single-handedly building them from scratch.

Being designed as a header-only library, it uses a thin object-oriented facade for the C API of version 3 and higher of OpenGL.

OGLplus comes with wrappers that are capable of automating the managements of resources and objects, while, with the help of C++, users can better benefit from OpenGL. The software includes three main components, specifically OGLplus, OALplus, and EGLplus, each being wrappers for OpenGL, OpenAL and EGL respectively.

Among the most notable features provided by OGLplus, users will find the ability to automatically manage resources quite handy, as it relies on the RAII idiom for handling them, all classes entailed in the process getting a different name when an instance is created, or they become free when the instance gets destroyed.

Moreover, OGLplus offers type safety features, which implement wrapper classes and assign a certain meaning to integer names, helping users to avoid making the mistake of erroneously allocating a name meant for a shader as a parameter, for instance.

The library is also capable of handling errors and throwing exceptions when these occur. Despite encapsulating and hiding the OpenGL names of objects, OGLplus is also capable of operating with its C API, as it might be called for in certain situations, where raw resource handling is needed. Also, OGLplus comes with several other CG related classes, which users can work with or not, depending on their needs.

Extensive documentation for understanding OGLplus is also provided. Since it is an open source, community-driven project, this enables users to quickly learn how to best work with the library, how to overcome difficulties and can get answers for their questions.