Documentation

The OpenSceneGraph Support/Documentation section has numerous resources to help you learn about 3D graphics and in particular using OpenSceneGraph. This page is the main index for these resources. Over time we will be adding more resources and writing more in depth and focused programming and reference guides. Help from the community is greatly appreciated.

OpenSceneGraph Books!

Skew-Matrix and Blue-Newt software have joined forces to develop a series of OpenSceneGraph books, the first two books in the series - The Quick Start Guide and OpenSceneGraph Reference Manual - can now be purchased from their website http://www.osgbooks.com. The Quick Start Guide is also available as free pdf download, just follow the links on the osgbooks website. Purchasing books helps fund ongoing documentation efforts so its a great way to help put something back into the project.

Upcoming Release Information

• 2.8.3 release - Scheduled for 31 March 2010.

Introductory documents

• Getting Started - introduction into the basics of downloading, compiling installing, running the examples, and writing your first OpenSceneGraph applications.
• Platform Specifics - documents on platform specific information such compilation guides.
• Tutorials - tutorials and examples of how to use OpenSceneGraph

User, Programming and Reference Guides

• New release Quick Start Guide Book.
• New release Reference Manual Book.
• User Guides - online user guides on how to use applications associated with OpenSceneGraph.
• Programming Guides - online programming guides on the concepts and usage of OpenSceneGraph.
• Reference Guides - online reference for OpenSceneGraph API's.

OpenSceneGraph Releases

• Downloads OpenSceneGraph-2.x Downloads
• News OpenSceneGraph-2.x News item

Latest Development work

• Checking OpenSceneGraph out from SVN
• LatestDevelopments
• Porting guides
• CMake build system

Questions and Answers

• FAQ - Frequently asked questions
• Tips And Tricks - a set of quick items on tricks you can employ when using OpenSceneGraph
• Mailing lists

Papers and presentations

• SIGGRAPH 2008 OpenSceneGraph Birds of Feather session presentations
• SIGGRAPH 2007 OpenSceneGraph Birds of Feather session presentations
• SIGGRAPH 2006 OpenSceneGraph Birds of Feather session presentations

General information

• Knowledge Base - background reading on scene graphs and real-time graphics.
• Trac Usage Examples - some examples of commonly used trac functions.
• TracGuide Documentation - information on editing this website.