About the project

After spending a lot of time this year working through learnopengl.com, I've decided to set up a challenge for myself and try to make a larger project, implementing most of the techniques I've learned about.
Reading the book was somewhat straightforward and clear. Had to stop to wrap my mind around certain things, but I wouldn't consider it super hard necessarily. Only once I tried to implement all of those concepts at once, that is where things started to get all tangled up.
I kind of knew that all example demo projects from the book are just that, isolated little sandboxes made with a singular purpose of representing a concept covered in the chapter. But I didn't realize what that truly means until I tried to combine them.

Programming Implementations

Simply, I made a list of things I wanted to implement in my project. The list looked something like this:

Basic Graphics:

• Third Party Libraries Setup
• Shader Abstraction
• Transformation Matrices Setup
• Camera Movement
• Model Loading

Intermediate Graphics:

• Blinn-Phong Lighting
• Sun's Fragment Shader
• Cubemap Skybox
• MSAA
• Normal and Depth Maps
• Post-processing Framebuffer

Advanced Graphics

• Bloom
• Shadows
• HDR
• Gamma Handling
• SSAO

After a whole journey, I've finally finished and I made a YouTube video about it: