liblava
iara
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liblava
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Vulkan all the way: Transitioning to a modern low-level graphics API in academia
Sorry for late response! The one I like most is LibLava https://github.com/liblava/liblava I contributed a few features that it was missing for me, and a few other people have done the same, so it's somewhat battle tested. At least two people have used it in academic projects. I like that it gives you full access to the low level parts of Vulkan while still providing high level abstractions over a lot, especially the render loop. The biggest issue imo is lackluster documentation, but it's fairly well organized and readable source code. Build times are also pretty long due to its many dependencies.
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Any C++ open source projects for beginners?
When I was pretty new to C++, I made some contributions to liblava, because it was missing features I wanted to use. Exploring its codebase taught me a lot about perfect forwarding, template metaprogramming, and Vulkan. I think it's a pretty nice modern codebase, if you're interested in graphics. There are some open issues for feature requests, and the maintainer is very friendly.
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Just released: liblava 2022 alpha / v0.7.2 - Free demo collection on itch.io
tutorial, guide and sources: https://git.io/liblava
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The deprecation of RenderScript is infuriating
Until your users start complaining about the performance. If setting up Vulkan is your pain point (which, I can understand, it's a verbose chunk), libraries like liblava provide a very nice abstraction over things.
iara
What are some alternatives?
VulkanHelper - A simple helper interface between Vulkan C API and C++ containers
qpcpp - QP/C++ Real-Time Embedded Framework/RTOS for embedded systems based on active objects (actors) and hierarchical state machines
Yave - Yet Another Vulkan Engine
areg-sdk - AREG is an asynchronous Object RPC framework to simplify multitasking programming by blurring borders between processes and treating remote objects as if they coexist in the same thread.
skia-opengl-emscripten - DEPRECATED! ~~C++ HTML/CSS UI. Supports subset of HTML/CSS. Based on chromium/cobalt.foo without JavaScript overhead. Uses SKIA 2D graphics library. Can be used to build UI for cross-platform app, game or website. Can support browser as HTML5 web framework or WebGL UI renderer.~~
eventbus - A simple, header only event bus library written in modern C++17.
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
idle - Idle is an asynchronous and hot-reloadable C++ dynamic component framework
vuh - Vulkan compute for people
liblifthttp - Safe and easy to use C++17 HTTP client library.
renderdoc - RenderDoc is a stand-alone graphics debugging tool.
HFSM2 - High-Performance Hierarchical Finite State Machine Framework