Sample Programs: Asteroids

• Difficulty: Advanced
• Creating tasks (routines that get called every frame)
• Using 2D graphics

Sample Programs: Ball in Maze

• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Using the collision detector
• Reading the mouse

Sample Programs: Boxing Robots

• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Loading animated actors and playing animations

Sample Programs: Carousel

• Difficulty: Beginner
• Relative positioning
• Intervals (automatic movement)

Sample Programs: Cartoon Shader

• Difficulty: Intermediate (or Advanced)
• Enables per-pixel lighting
• Explicit Shaders
• Image Postprocessing
• Render-to-Texture

Sample Programs: Chessboard

• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Selecting an object with the mouse

Sample Programs: Disco Lights

• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Using vertex lighting
• Enables per-pixel lighting

Sample Programs: Distortion

• Difficulty: Advanced
• Creates an interesting shader effect where the entire screen is rendered into a texture.

Sample Programs: Fireflies

• Difficulty: Very Advanced
• Deferred shading - a complex shader-based algorithm

Sample Programs: Fractal Plants

• Difficulty: Very Advanced
• Creates a 3D model without loading it from disk

Sample Programs: Glow Filter

• Difficulty: Intermediate (or Advanced)
• Enabling per-pixel lighting
• Explicit Shaders
• Image Postprocessing
• Render-to-Texture

Sample Programs: Infinite Tunnel

• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Using fog to hide artifacts in the distance

Sample Programs: Looking and Gripping

• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Controlling a character's head procedurally
• Causing a character to grip an object

Sample Programs: Media Player

• Difficulty: Beginner
• Loading a texture from an AVI file
• Loading a sound from an AVI file
• Synchronizing audio and video

Sample Programs: Motion Trails

• Difficulty: Advanced
• Captures contents of screen and reuses it later.

Sample Programs: Music Box

• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Playing sounds
• GUI buttons and sliders

Sample Programs: Normal Mapping

• Difficulty: Intermediate (or Advanced)
• Enables per-pixel lighting
• Explicit Shaders

Sample Programs: Particles

• Difficulty: Advanced
• Demonstrates the particle system

Sample Programs: Procedural Cube

• Difficulty: Advanced
• Creates a 3D model without loading it

Sample Programs: Roaming Ralph

• Difficulty: Advanced
• A character walks around a terrain
• Uses collision system to detect height of terrain

Sample Programs: Shadows

• Difficulty: Advanced
• Explicit Shaders
• Dynamic Shadows: shadow mapping

Sample Programs: Solar System

• Difficulty: Beginner Tutorial
• Tutorial structure shows development steps
• Shows how objects can move relative to other objects

Sample Programs: Teapot on TV

• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Render-to-texture
• Places rendered texture on model in scene

Sample Programs: Texture Swapping

• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Swaps textures on models to create interesting effects