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nuklear
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Using Jolt with flecs & Dear ImGui: Game Physics Introspection
Nuklear is an alternative Immediate GUI, also written in C.
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LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
> And for the right project, especially those where a predefined engine structure does not not fit, it can still be the most productive choice.
Right on. While interning at an oil refinery, I developed an application in LÖVE that processes and displays data from spectrometers. In hindsight it may not have been the wisest choice, but hand rolling all the GUI elements I couldnt force out of the Nuklear[0] bindings for LÖVE gave me a strange sense of satisfaction.
[0]: https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear
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Looking for a Julia gui framework with a demo like EGUI
No, Nuklear has been updated 2 days ago.
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Is there no simple GUI library for pure C?
I think good option would be nuklear it is a single header lib
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ImGui or text rendering libraries
For GUI, there are lots, most well-known of course being Dear Imgui, for which people have made auto-generated C bindings. Another mature but a lot simpler option is Nuklear, as others have mentioned. Even more minimalistic (it's just 1KLOC) is microui. There are a lot more, just google "imgui library c".
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GUI frameworks for an SDL-based roguelike?
What about https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear ?
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Looking for minimal UI framework which will work with SDL2/OpenGL
Nuklear? They have a number of backends.
- CLib: Header-only C library that implements the most important classes from GLib
- Nuklear – A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
msdfgen
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Shader Park Is Kinda Neat
This very well explained here https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen and with more details in link d pdf.
Basically, signed distance fields allow high resolution renders from low resolution rasters which represent character shape.
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SDF font rendering & cuttoff parameter value
No idea how to help you but I will just drop this since it improved the quality for me by 1000 https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen
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Best approach to render a lot of text.
And that's the complicated state of the art version for 3D perspective. Other versions are even simpler.
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Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
This is known as a “multi-channel signed distance field”, or “msdf”.
https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen
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Font question: What software do you use to create "Signed Distance Field" from OTF or TTF?
I use this, free and has been very good for me https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen
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Why are SDF editors not more popular for creating assets?
Distance fields are not slow to render. They don't need a powerful gpu. Valve was already using SDF for textures in 2007 and released a paper about it. MSDF (multi channel signed distance fields) is a popular text libraries for game engine devs that uses distance fields. Distance fields are fast to render in 2D and even 3D. The problem is with everything around it. Lighting, shadows, shading will all require specialized tooling and likely a specialized engine for very little benefit (imo).
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Vector Graphics on GPU
Signed distance fields only work well for relatively simple characters.
If you have highly detailed characters like Chinese or emojis, you need larger resolution to faithfully represent every detail. One way to get around excessive memory requirements is to store the characters in their default vector forms and only render the required characters on demand, but then you might as well render them at the required pixel resolution and do away with the additional complexity of SDF rendering.
SDFs are still useful though if you have to render text at many different resolutions, for example on signs in computer games, as seen in the original paper https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007...
In the past, SDFs also had problems with sharp corners, which has been solved in https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen
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Adventures in Text Rendering: Kerning and Glyph Atlases
MSDFGen looks pretty sweet. https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen
What are some alternatives?
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
msdf-atlas-gen - MSDF font atlas generator
imgui-node-editor - Node Editor built using Dear ImGui
8SSEDT - Tutorial about 8-points Signed Sequential Euclidean Distance Transform
libui - Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.
vello - An experimental GPU compute-centric 2D renderer.
NanoGUI - Minimalistic GUI library for OpenGL
troika - A JavaScript framework for interactive 3D and 2D visualizations
GTK+ - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
nanovg - Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.
raygui - A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode gui library
msdfgl - OpenGL implementation of the MSDF algorithm