Feature guide

Fundamental principles and design goals.

Overview and tutorials of high-level feature groups in Magnum. It's not necessary to read through everything, pick only what you need.

• Platform support — Integration into windowing toolkits and creation of windowless contexts.
• Type system — Type aliases, naming and compatibility with OpenGL and GLSL types.
• Operations with matrices and vectors — Introduction to essential classes of the graphics pipeline.
• 2D and 3D transformations — Introduction to essential operations on vectors and points.
• Loading and using plugins — Extending Magnum with additional functionality.
• OpenGL wrapping layer — Overview of the base OpenGL wrapper API.
• Builtin shaders — Overview and basic usage of builtin shaders.
• Using scene graph — Overview of scene management capabilities.
• Collision detection — Collection of simple shapes for high performance collision detection.
• Debugging helpers — Convenience classes to help you during development.