bigger vs bgfx-minimal-example

bigger

bigg (bgfx + imgui + glfw + glm) + utils (by yuki-koyama)

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Minimal bgfx "hello world" example (by jpcy)

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bigger		bgfx-minimal-example
	Project
1	Mentions	1
207	Stars	155
-	Growth	-
1.5	Activity	10.0
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
C++	Language	C
MIT License	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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bigger

Posts with mentions or reviews of bigger. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-18.

Mach Engine: The Future of Graphics (With Zig)
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2021

Everyone's building on the "bigg" (bgfx + imgui + glfw + glm) stack ;)
https://github.com/yuki-koyama/bigger

bgfx-minimal-example

Posts with mentions or reviews of bgfx-minimal-example. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-28.

C++ Packages for a custom Game Engine - That One Game Dev
2 projects | /r/gamedev | 28 Jan 2023

There's the Minimal example without bgfx’s example harness linked in the documentation: https://github.com/jpcy/bgfx-minimal-example

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bigger and bgfx-minimal-example you can also consider the following projects:

sokol-zig - Zig bindings for the sokol headers (https://github.com/floooh/sokol)

lwjgl3-demos - Demo suite for LWJGL 3

Cluster - Clustered shading implementation with bgfx

harfang3d - HARFANG 3D source code public repository

3d-annotation-tool - A graphical user interface to annotate point clouds and 3D data.

json - JSON for Modern C++

WebGui - An example demo of IMGUI (Immediate Mode GUI) on the web. Using only WebGL, GLFW and ImGui. Suitable for being compiled to web assembly (WASM).

cpp-graphics - C++ 2D Graphics Tests and Examples using SDL2, SFML, GLFW and Dear ImGui

sdk-macos-11.3 - See newer SDK https://github.com/hexops/sdk-macos-12.0

zxShaderViz - A useful tool to edit and visualize shaders in real time.