Rubik's Cube

The code is based on an older version of Chapter 3. OpenGL's Moving Triangle of the Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming by Jason L. McKesson. Originally I didn't use Git for this project, and only now (2018) decided to upload the code to GitHub. Before doing so, I removed most of the tutorials code which was not important tomy project.

Most (but not all) of the code in rubiks-cube/src was written by me. All the other code was not.

How to build it

How to build the original tutorials is explained here. I will give the commands needed to compile what's important to the Rubik's Cube project.

You need premake4 to build. Download premake4 for your operating system, which is a standalone executable. Add it to your path. One way to do this is to create a private bin directory for the user e.g. /home/username/bin, paste the premake4 executable into it. Then add the directory to the path by adding the following to your ~/.profile:

#set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

If you'd like to be able to execute premake instead premake4 create a link:

ln -s /home/username/bin/premake4 /home/username/bin/premake

I added the glsdk which was mentioned in the original build guide to the repository, because it makes the setup easier. In McKessons's tutorials, there was a Lua script to download those files.

Furthermore, I replaced the framework folder with an older version from my hard drive.

Clone the repository.

Assuming the current working directory is rubiks-cube/glsdk/ run:

premake4 gmake
make

Then change directories to rubiks-cube/glsdk/ and run the same two commands. If the compilation was successful you can now run the program with: ./RubicsCube/src/RubiksCubeD

Since I'm not aware of a way to do out-of-tree builds with premake4 using the provided lua scripts, the working copy becomes a bit dirty after compilation. As a workaround I saved the output of git status to a .gitignore after running premake and make.

Trivia

This project meant as a mere prototype, while the actual goal was to implement a Rubik's Cube on Sony's PlayStationVita. Unfortunately, due to copyright restrictions, I can't share the code for the PlayStationVita version. Furthermore sadly no footage of the far more elaborate PlayStationVita version does exists.