learn-wgpu VS cgltf

the "p5.js" of rust is definetelly nannou. but i wouldn't recommend it for something that is graphics heavy, nannou is great for visualizations, effects, animations and stuff, but for proper 3d rendering and stuff you should go to wgpu (which has a great walkthrough: https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/), or some opengl binding which there are many of: https://crates.io/keywords/opengl

And here's the tutorial: https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/

baryon is a lightweight toy renderer for prototyping 3D applications in Rust. It uses wgpu to render 3D elements, hecs for an ECS system (to make a scene with “entities” like 3D models), and winit for handling cross-platform window management (just like the wgpu tutorial). It also allows for setting different “render passes”, like a Phong (”cartoony”/fast) vs PBR (”realistic”) pass.

I creted this project while learning from this awesome tutorial which I highly recommend. I also took inspiration for the minimal web ui from this repository.

⚠️ This tutorial assumes you’ve followed and completed the “Learn wgpu” tutorial. You could also use my repo here as a starting point - but it will require Rust and Trunk setup in your local dev environment. You can also checkout the final code here for reference.

If you do know Rust and know what to pick from, but want to be at bleeding edge and have the best Rust centric graphics libraries can offer, try wgpu which is an implementation of WebGPU. There's a tutorial on how to get started too.

Hello! So far am I following this guide for WGPU/Rust: sotrh/learn-wgpu. I made it to the depth buffer before I wanted to use what I had learned to make my own project. It has been going pretty well, with no major hiccups, however, I am having issues with resizing.

I started learning Rust a while back and recently got interested into graphics programming. I found this library called wgpu. It seemed what I was looking for so I looked up some tutorials and this one seems to be the only one that exists.

If you decide to go with it and want to learn it I would recommend you to refer https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/ and refer to Go code for the tutorials here https://github.com/rajveermalviya/go-webgpu-examples/tree/main/learn-wgpu/beginner (WIP, I am in the process of making complete doc)

There's also https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/, but that focusses more on the graphics part of wgpu.

Use glTF and https://github.com/jkuhlmann/cgltf Or, looks like you are using C#, so https://github.com/vpenades/SharpGLTF

Do you really have to use fbx? An open format like gltf is better supported, and there are bazillions loaders(I use cgltf without any issues, which is also used by raylib, Unigine and bgfx). It's also a perfect fit for OpenGL.

I recently discovered this pattern in cgltf (https://github.com/jkuhlmann/cgltf), and I agree, it makes deployment so much nicer.

Use https://github.com/jkuhlmann/cgltf It’s the most popular loader.

It's easy to generate a BVH for a generated triangle set (like a fractal pyramid or a dense cube). But, quickly generating a high quality BVH for a loaded model requires some research. Use https://github.com/jkuhlmann/cgltf to load models.

Write a simple glTF viewer in OpenGL. This is a throw-away warm-up. So, don't fret over the code. Don't do anything complicated. Shoot for a simple, forward renderer for a simple, animated character with trivial Phong lighting, diffuse map, normal map and a basic directional shadow map. Use OpenGL ES 3.0/GL 4.3 API with no crazy features. Don't worry about performance. Use https://github.com/jkuhlmann/cgltf to load the files. KTX is a great container for textures.