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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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assimp
- The Asset-Importer-Lib Minor Release Version 5.3.0 is out
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Quickly setting up a 3D scene?
If you use something like libassimp https://github.com/assimp/assimp it will allow you to import these and access the data to generate your Vertex Array Objects then render to a frame buffer object.
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Scene organization
If you just want to load other data in a relatively simple fashion, assimp https://www.assimp.org supports loading a bunch of different formats and is pretty easy to use.
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Noob question: Between WebGL, OpenGL ES and emscripten, what is the recommended usage and relationship between them for creating an interactive browser based graphics app?
The emscripten interface for the assimp library. It runs entirely in the browser, and allows you to import 40+ 3D file formats and access the result in JSON or glTF format. This is not a full port of assimp, but an easy to use interface to access it's functionality.
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Issues with Assimp Loader and Bones
I ran into what sounds like a similar problem a few months ago. It turns out this was an assimp bug: https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues/1974
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What is the best way to read .3DS files?
You could give assimp a go (there is a python version) i've used it for 3DS before then you can export to something else. https://github.com/assimp/assimp/blob/master/port/PyAssimp/README.md
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How can I retrieve normal scale and occlusion strength properties from GLTF 2.0 PBR materials using Assimp?
I have checked the source code for GLTF for this and it is not handled by Assimp. I created an issue as in their Github.
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A TRIANGLE!!! with OpenGL! Awesome right? 😅😜
Assimp is your friend
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Using Assimp library for commercial game development
Have you read the license? It's quite permissive. https://github.com/assimp/assimp/blob/master/LICENSE
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i wanna turn 3d models into a sprite and a normal map (the same way dead cells does it) Any library recommendations that i can use for this? Simpler and easier to learn the llibrarry the better as this is the only thing i am going to do with it.
There is probably some library more specific to your use case, but you can use assimp to load 3d models in C++.
stb
- Lessons learned about how to make a header-file library (2013)
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Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine
Have you considered not using an engine at all, in favor of libraries? There are many amazing libraries I've used for game development - all in C/C++ - that you can piece together:
* General: [stb](https://github.com/nothings/stb)
- STB: Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
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Writing a TrueType font renderer
Great to see more accessible references on font internals. I have dabbled on this a bit last year and managed to have a parser and render the points of a glyph's contour (I stopped before Bezier and shape filling stuff). I still have not considered hinting, so it's nice that it's covered. What helped me was an article from the Handmade Network [1] and the source of stb_truetype [2] (also used in Dear ImGUI).
[1] https://handmade.network/forums/articles/t/7330-implementing....
[2] https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_truetype.h
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Capturing the WebGPU Ecosystem
So I read through the materials on mesh shaders and work graphs and looked at sample code. These won't really work (see below). As I implied previously, it's best to research/discuss these sort of matters with professional graphics programmers who have experience actually using the technologies under consideration.
So for the sake of future web searchers who discover this thread: there are only two proven ways to efficiently draw thousands of unique textures of different sizes with a single draw call that are actually used by experienced graphics programmers in production code as of 2023.
Proven method #1: Pack these thousands of textures into a texture atlas.
Proven method #2: Use bindless resources, which is still fairly bleeding edge, and will require fallback to atlases if targeting the PC instead of only high end console (Xbox Series S|X...).
Mesh shaders by themselves won't work: These have similar texture access limitations to the old geometry/tessellation stage they improve upon. A limited, fixed number of textures still must be bound before each draw call (say, 16 or 32 textures, not 1000s), unless bindless resources are used. So mesh shaders must be used with an atlas or with bindless resources.
Work graphs by themselves won't work: This feature is bleeding edge shader model 6.8 whereas bindless resources are SM 6.6. (Xbox Series X|S might top out at SM 6.7, I can't find an authoritative answer.) It looks like work graphs might only work well on nVidia GPUs and won't work well on Intel GPUs anytime soon (but, again, I'm not knowledgeable enough to say this authoritatively). Furthermore, this feature may have a hard dependency on using bindless to begin with. That is, I can't tell if one is allowed to execute a work graph that binds and unbinds individual texture resources. And if one could do such a thing, it would certainly be slower than using bindless. The cost of bindless is paid "up front" when the textures are uploaded.
Some programmers use Texture2DArray/GL_TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY as an alternative to atlases but two limitations are (1) the max array length (e.g. GL_MAX_ARRAY_TEXTURE_LAYERS) might only be 256 (e.g. for OpenGL 3.0), (2) all textures must be the same size.
Finally, for the sake of any web searcher who lands on this thread in the years to come, to pack an atlas well a good packing algorithm is needed. It's harder to pack triangles than rectangles but triangles use atlas memory more efficiently and a good triangle packing will outperform the fancy new bindless rendering. Some open source starting points for packing:
https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_rect_pack.h
https://github.com/ands/trianglepacker
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Www Which WASM Works
The STB headers are mostly built like that: https://github.com/nothings/stb
You could also add an optional 'convenience API' over the lower-level flexible-but-inconvenient core API, as long as core library can be compiled on its own.
In essence it's just a way to decouple the actually important library code from runtime environment details which might be better implemented outside the C/C++ stdlib.
It's already as simple as the stdlib IO functions not being asynchrononous while many operating systems provide more modern alternatives. For a specific type of library (such an image decoder) it's often better to delegate such details to the library user instead of circumventing the stdlib and talking directly to OS APIs.
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File for Divorce from LLVM
My stuff for instance:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol
...inspired by:
https://github.com/nothings/stb
But it's not so much about the build system, but requiring a separate C/C++ compiler toolchain (Rust needs this, Zig currently does not - unless the proposal is implemented).
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What C libraries do you use the most?
STB Libraries: https://github.com/nothings/stb
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[Noob Question] How do C programmers get around not having hash maps?
stb_ds is also very popular.
- Is there an existing multidimensional hash table implementation in C?
What are some alternatives?
tinyobjloader - Tiny but powerful single file wavefront obj loader
Vcpkg - C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
cgltf - :diamond_shape_with_a_dot_inside: Single-file glTF 2.0 loader and writer written in C99
imgui-node-editor - Node Editor built using Dear ImGui
android-3D-model-viewer - Android OpenGL 2.0 application to view 3D models. Published on Play Store
ZXing - ZXing ("Zebra Crossing") barcode scanning library for Java, Android
meshoptimizer - Mesh optimization library that makes meshes smaller and faster to render
freetype-gl - OpenGL text using one vertex buffer, one texture and FreeType
ozz-animation - Open source c++ skeletal animation library and toolset
ImageMagick - 🧙♂️ ImageMagick 7
tilck - A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel
Cppcheck - static analysis of C/C++ code