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4,265 | 8,597 | |
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9.8 | 9.7 | |
about 1 year ago | 7 days ago | |
C++ | C++ | |
MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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urho3d
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C++ Game Engine?
I believe Urho3d supports MacOS (see 'about' page on the legacy website).
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I'd like to learn game engine development - where to even start?
If you're literally clueless your best bet is to first start learning with an existing clean-ish engine like Urho3D implementing whatever feature/screwing-around or start with a framework like nVidia's Donut that gets you your window and basic rendering in place.
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Game engine for programmars
You could try Urho3D or its newer fork rbfx.
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Preferred game engine
I use an engine called rbfx which is a fork of the Urho3D engine. A lot of it is just the fact that I've been using it for over a decade, so I am comfortable with it. I'm a programmer, not really comfortable with integrated editor engines such as Unity or Godot, and the easy C++ extensibility of the engine appeals to me. Plus it's decently powerful, and well supported on a lot of platforms (I build for Windows, WebGL, and very occasionally RPi for the most part) and is open source to satisfy that stubbornly libertarian side of my character.
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What is the lightest C++ 3D game engine for Linux?
You might be interested in Urho3D.
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I need a REALLY lightweight engine
If you don't mind something experimental, there is a C# version of Urho3D that is in fairly active development. There is also a C#-scriptable branch of the Urho3D fork, rbfx, located here. Both of these projects are still pretty in-the-works, but are still pretty usable.
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Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches
This looks very much as if the font renderer is aggressively hinting to the pixel grid vertically, but not horizontally. That’s a known trick for getting a decent compromise between crisp text (along the baselines and tops of letters) with subpixel horizontal kerning.
I doubt the Android renderer is really broken and no-one has noticed until now, so I’d guess the font either has bad hinting, or more likely it’s just being displayed at an awkward size and vertical positions are being rounded in an awkward way. You can see the slight deviations from the baseline in the iOS screenshots, it’s just much more subtle as it isn’t being hinted.
(Source: I contributed a little bit to font rendering in Urho3D, to fix some similar text aliasing glitches: https://github.com/urho3d/Urho3D/issues/1953)
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3D game engine for lower end pcs
Urho3D works on mobiles, Windows, Mac, and even on the R Pi. It's a code-first engine with a minimal editor.
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2D game framework/engine that is mostly code driven (not GUI-driven)
Urho3D, rbfx
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Godot support for 3D is too primitive, and Unity has become a wild mess over the years. Is Unreal Engine the only remaining option for 3D projects?
You might give rbfx a look. It is an actively developed fork of Urho3D that has pretty decent, and actively developed, 3D rendering.
Skia
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Skia VS nitro-gl - a user suggested alternative
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Lottie under the hood
Actually, that's not entirely accurate. The lottie-web library itself doesn't support rendering to WebGL. However, there is a package called canvaskit-wasm that wraps Skia (a graphics engine) with WebAssembly (wasm). This package includes a module called skottie which supports rendering animations into a WebGL surface. However, there is a drawback with this approach: using wasm requires loading a relatively large package, and it's uncertain whether all features are supported correctly, as the official compatibility table that tracks lottie support on different platforms does not include skottie.
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Widely-used graphics library
Skia is pretty great if you can get it running.
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Graphic Library for C
There’s also Skia by Google. Used by Android and Google Chrome.
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Ask HN: Is WASM (WebAssembly) getting adoption in real use cases?
Not specially something that you cannot do without WASM but at $WORK we are using a WASM build of Skia [0] to render canvas from nodejs.
Why use WASM ? Because we wanted to stay close to our stack (ie. calling wasm from nodejs). Do it work ? Yes, memory consumption is quite heavy though (each WASM module have its own heap that can quickly grow).
However we are looking to directly use Skia now and avoid the overhead of WASM so i think its a nice solution in the beginning but you might want to ditch it later on.
[0]: https://github.com/google/skia/tree/main/modules/canvaskit
What are some alternatives?
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
nanovg - Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.
Ogre 3D - scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine (C++, Python, C#, Java)
GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
Atomic Game Engine - The Atomic Game Engine is a multi-platform 2D and 3D engine with a consistent API in C++, C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
Lottie for Android, iOS, and React Native - Render After Effects animations natively on Android and iOS, Web, and React Native
canvas - High performance skia binding to Node.js. Zero system dependencies and pure npm packages without any postinstall scripts nor node-gyp.
OpenSceneGraph - OpenSceneGraph git repository
Open-Source Vulkan C++ API - Open-Source Vulkan C++ API