cglm VS GLM

It's too bad you are using C. If you were using C++, you could use teh fantastic GLM library, which implements the vector math stuff from GLSL as CPU/C++ code. you might want to have a look at CLGM: https://github.com/recp/cglm

There's cglm, but I don't know how good it is. Really though for hobby OpenGL stuff, it's going to be 3x3, 4x4, 1x4 matrices, so rolling one's own stuff is not that terrible, if it proves to be a bottleneck (probably won't), you can drop in some fancy SIMD bullshit later.

There is a cglm: repo

Check out https://github.com/recp/cglm I use it judiciously.

GLM and CGLM should probably be mentioned as well since you'll probably want a good linear algebra library if you are going with just a rendering library instead of a full game engine.

cglm has two options for representing a vector: using a struct and using an array. The default one is using an array, but I'm not seeing what are the benefits of using an array instead of a struct. When using an array, you need to use out parameters, which make the code much more ugly when doing multiple operations. Using a struct, I can simply return the struct from the function. The only advantage of using an array would be that it's easier to iterate through it, but I could do the same using structs like this

It has been a while since I've written any C so it's very likely I'm missing something very simple. But I'm using CGLM and I have this simple program:

https://github.com/recp/cglm is a C version of GLM

I am a greenhorn at graphics programming. I just made an app in OpenGL with C++ that I now need to change over to a browser app with WebGL. WebGL looks pretty cool but since my app does a lot of calculations I assumed I should keep the heavier calculating parts in C++ with emscripten ( which I am also just learning ). So looking at it, it just looks like glm is the only library I seriously need for my c++ code and that seems pretty cool because it is a header only app it says. But in the github there are a lot of folders and files so I am not sure which are indispensable or not. Any advice?

GLM does it quite well, it has core includes then a detail folder with all the inl files that get added. https://github.com/g-truc/glm

I once ported an OpenGL code base over to Metal. For me, it was essential to do as much code sharing as possible. Because I was using the GLM library in that code base and generally found that library very useful I wanted to know whether I can use GLM with Metal. I had to do some research but it turned out it works really well, see here

I would also recommend GLM

Alongside MiniEngine, you’ll want to look into the DirectX Toolkit. This is a set of utilities by Microsoft that simplify graphics and game development. It contains libraries like DirectXMesh for parsing and optimizing meshes for DX12, or DirectXMath which handles 3D math operations like the OpenGL library glm. It also has utilities for gamepad input or sprite fonts. You can see a list of the headers here to get an idea of the features. You’ll definitely want to include this in your project if you don’t want to think about a lot of these solved problems (and don’t have to worry about cross-platform support).