GLFW VS bgfx

There is a pattern to it which is usable with every GitHub repository. For example, GLFW v3.3.8 can be fetched from: https://github.com/glfw/glfw/archive/refs/tags/3.3.8.tar.gz

What exactly would I fetch with this method? He's fetching a raylib url, but I don't really see a pattern in it I can follow when fetching glfw. I assume I can use this repository? https://github.com/glfw/glfw

I'm not sure how to fix it, sorry. I searched for some of the messages and found this bug: . I think overriding the LWJGL library might fix the issue, but I don't see any way to do that with the CurseForge launcher.

To go multiplatform with OpenGL / Vulkan (harder for a beginner) you can use a simple window library like GLFW and Dear ImGui for UI. I use these for Avoyd, along with a few other libraries.

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16) project(P1_PR) add_executable(P1_PR src/main.cpp ) find_package(GLFW QUIET) if(NOT GLFW_FOUND) message(STATUS "GLFW not found, fetching from GitHub...") include(FetchContent) FETCHCONTENT_DECLARE( GLFW GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/glfw/glfw/ GIT_TAG 3.3.8 ) FetchContent_GetProperties(GLFW) if (NOT GLFW_POPULATED) set(FETCHCONTENT_QUIET NO) FetchContent_Populate(GLFW) set(BUILD_EXAMPLES OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE) set(BUILD_GAMES OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE) add_subdirectory(${glfw_SOURCE_DIR} ${glfw_BINARY_DIR}) endif() endif() find_package(GLEW QUIET) if(NOT GLEW_FOUND) message(STATUS "GLEW not found, fetching from GitHub...") include(FetchContent) FETCHCONTENT_DECLARE( GLEW GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/Perlmint/glew-cmake GIT_TAG glew-cmake-2.2.0 ) FetchContent_GetProperties(GLEW) if (NOT GLEW_POPULATED) set(FETCHCONTENT_QUIET NO) FetchContent_Populate(GLEW) set(BUILD_EXAMPLES OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE) set(BUILD_GAMES OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE) add_subdirectory(${glew_SOURCE_DIR} ${glew_BINARY_DIR}) endif() endif() target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE ${GLFW_SOURCE_DIR} PRIVATE ${GLEW_SOURCE_DIR} ) target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} glfw glew32 opengl32 gdi32 glm ) target_compile_features(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE cxx_std_20)

I recently started following the Learn OpenGL tutorial and noticed that when I create a window with GLFW in the Wayland GNOME session the cursor becomes much larger when hovering over the window. This is because a Wayland client is expected to define its own pointer (cursor) and that seems to lead to inconsistencies between implementations. I do not have a problem with CSD being default on Wayland (I even prefer it when done really well, like Telegram Desktop, or any GTK app with GtkHeaderBar) but the cursor switching scale while moving it over surfaces (windows) is much more jarring.

I recall an issue specific to Wayland where windows only appear after the first command buffer is submitted. https://github.com/glfw/glfw/issues/1398

Another route could be using an abstraction over Vulkan (faster, more efficient, more difficult): bgfx, dawn, magma, or wgpu (Rust).

my guess for why renderdragon made performance worse is because old bedrock was built on bgfx which is a layer of abstraction ontop of a bunch of graphics apis which benefits the programmer because they can write the graphics code once and use it on a bunch of graphics apis (just like java! i heart cross compatibility)

now, java is actually quite a performant language and even if its not most of the performance bugs in mc are due to it being single threaded, inefficient chunk generation and optimizing, and it built ontop of opengl WHICH isn't much of a performance hit but its still ehh idk it doesn't matter that much (NOW SWITCHING THE GAME TO AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT GRAPHICS API WOULD SUCK ASS TO DO (and vulkan is quite verbose :))) (AND also bgfx would probably be better due to it being an abstraction layer ontop of all the graphics apis so minecraft could target many depending on your platform (and also bedrock used to (or still does i dont know) use bgfx before they switched to just two (IF IM READING MC WIKI RIGHT BECAUSE IM NOT ENTIRELY SURE IF THEY USE BGFX STILL ?? SO THEY COULD STILL BE TARGETING MULTIPLE YET THEY JUST WROTE THEIR NEW SHIT BAD IDK))

We use a lot of software used by big companies. :) Git and C++ come to mind. But as far I see on their software list there are one or two roguelikes. Also, bgfx uses ImGUI under the hood, so it is a good place to see how it can look or even use it instead of just ImGUI.

I think if you're not going to use an existing game engine, it makes sense to learn OpenGL and implement things yourself, or use something with the explicit goal of being a rendering abstraction like bgfx. It's more of a time commitment though, and sfml is much simpler and easier to get started with.

The "engine" is built on top of amazing https://www.lwjgl.org/ and https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx/, and UI system is baked by https://github.com/memononen/nanovg and https://github.com/facebook/yoga

If you want juste a renderer, you can use BGFX, there is a zig binding that is not a third party.

Take a look at BGFX, sounds like its what you want. Its a cross platform graphics API that is low level like metal or opengl, however it treats opengl, metal, vulkan, etc as backends that u can compile to so you can write your code once and then compile to macos using metal as the backend, compile to web using webgl as the backend, compile for windows using directx as the backend etc etc. Its written in C++ but it has officially supported C bindings so you can use it with C no problem.

bgfx:https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx

BGFX