GPT3 Dialog - a robotic Elizabeth Bennet sent back in time from the future to assassinate Mr. Darcy and the haughty woman, Caroline Bingley:
Elizabeth: I'm here to kill Mr. Darcy.
Caroline: How dare you! Mr. Darcy is a gentleman and you are nothing but a filthy little robot!
Elizabeth: I'm not a robot, I'm a human being from the future sent back in time to kill Mr. Darcy.
Caroline: That's even worse! How dare you come back in time and try to kill Mr. Darcy! He's done nothing wrong!
Postmortem: The problem was I was setting openGL version to 3.3 when calling wglCreateContextAttribsARB. This doesn't automatically create a profile compatible with the old ass openGL code I wrote.
Fix: either specify a version lower than 3.0, or specify WGL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_MASK_ARB, WGL_CONTEXT_COMPATIBILITY_PROFILE_BIT_ARB. Yes, everything aside from that was fine.
There isn't really a thing like ShaderToy but for vertex shaders, and "shader designer" or whatever on MacOS is dead, so it's time to break out MSVS and update my old democode to run my new bad ideas.
So far I'm to the point where I have a window that turns whatever color glClearColor is, but nothing else shows. (Wow I did not know how C++ worked when I wrote this.)
I am a demoscene enthusiast, coder, and electronic musician. I hang out with the goats in Brainstorm. I was deep into social media back when it was really stupid & awesome. At work I do machine perception for creative digital media.