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Want to a 3D game without a game engine but not having to deal with opengl stuff ?
Magnum
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Good graphics engines to visualize my physics framework?
If you want something that gives you more control you could use magnum.
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100,000 subscriber celebration – Ask the Godot contributors anything!
Therefore, in terms of artist mindshare, Blender is the leading open source 3D creation program, but not the leading 3D creation program. I think Godot is already in a similar situation, and has been for a few years now. In comparison, most other open source game engines have focused on providing low-level functionality. These certainly fulfill a niche, but in my experience, most people want something that works at a higher level and comes with a built-in editor.
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Looking for a 2D/3D rendering layer for C++
Magnum is worth checking out.
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Simple light graphics library for c++?
Since you want something lightweight, I'll assume you mean the former. If that's the case, then checkout bgfx or Magnum. Magnum does include some extra features typically found in a graphics engine.
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Best C++ libraries for 2D game development
You could try Magnum it wraps SDL and others, but you might find it maybe too low-level. It's certainly not Love2D.
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Exceptions: Yes or No?
C++ is similar to C in that there are multiple "styles" of use that vary from project to project. Other, usually newer languages (C#, Python, Rust, etc) tend to have a stronger sense of what idioms should be used. Whereas, for instance, some C++ projects (like some GUI libraries and game/graphics engines) will partially/entirely replace the STL (and older ones may have been around before C++ had a standard library aside from C's), or forbid the use of certain C++ features (example).
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What is a good absolutely minimalist game/rendering engine?
Magnum Graphics
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Magnum: Lightweight, modular C++11 graphics middleware for games/visualization
> He has Vulkan support in here with a clearly marked file named Pipeline.cpp. The guy knows what a pipeline is...
There is a Vulkan API wrapper. However, there is no "Vk Renderer" -- no code seems to use the Vulkan parts of the code system, and the two projects seem unrelated.
> * Is this not a UBO interface?
There are ways of making a uniform buffer, however the examples don't cover them and the API doesn't adapt automatically. See how all of the setters assert if UBOs are enabled.
https://github.com/mosra/magnum/blob/cfc02599e54e02337dd56bb...
> * I don't see why you think there's limited support for multiple framebuffers...?
The code I do see is about binding/unbinding framebuffers in a stateful manner, e.g. AbstractFramebuffer::bind(), rather than supporting passes.
> None of your criticism seem well intentioned. It might behoove you to give people the benefit of the doubt and realize that you may be able to learn something from them, even if they're so clearly inferior to you.
To put it simply, I've taught enough graphics to know first-hand the kinds of misconceptions that OpenGL-styled APIs can cause, and I'm just a bit tired to see it continue. Admittedly I was a bit harsh, I don't mean any harm towards the author. There are just graphics APIs with interfaces I consider to be much better designed.
Open-Source Vulkan C++ API
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what math is required?
It might be useful to maybe look at the Vulkan.hpp examples since you can do the same in about 200 lines of code. https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Hpp/blob/main/samples/15_DrawCube/15_DrawCube.cpp
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An idea to ease wrapping C libraries in C++.
Even auto-generated c++ wrappers like vulkan-hpp require lots of manual maintenance.
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Anybody know why V-EZ has not been updated in 5 years?
Ultimately I went with vulkan.hpp RAII bindings, even though that way also has some learning curve and I couldn't find any documentation other than the RAII programming guide. It's great for getting started, but could use a complementary auto-generated API doc. There are also decent programming samples, which really suck for getting started, but otherwise do a good job of presenting concepts they focus on. Putting the available resources together I was able to get a project going in two weekends.
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Recommendations on how to start a small Vulkan project
Or the vulkan.hpp RAII samples would be a good place?
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What's the most hilarious use of operator overloading you've seen?
For a real-life example: consider the vk::raii namespace of Vulkan-Hpp, where the developers have posted examples. The vk::raii::su namespace has a bunch of free functions that one might think are associated with a Vulkan instance/object (in fact, the Vulkan Tutorial does implement them as member functions), but they are much nicer when used as pure functions. It keeps the class/struct definition itself nice and clean.
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CLion vs VSCode in 2023 for C++
VS 2022 has seen a massive increase in performance especially after its move to 64-bit. It lints even the largest headers (ahem, Vulkan-Hpp) in a matter of seconds whereas CLion just chokes and crashes.
- Cross platform low level graphics API suitable for game development?
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std::string_view, std::string, char const*, and char const* const*
So I am attempting to follow the Vulkan Tutorial, but I am trying to use decidedly more C++ than the tutorial suggests, by using the Vulkan-Hpp C++ bindings and the vk::raii classes, in particular.
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I put together this compute pipeline example using the C++ RAII interface. Perhaps other beginners could learn from it, and any code reviews/comments would be welcome.
Its literally a few kb: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Hpp/tree/master/vulkan Why on earth are you downloading all the samples and what not? Just use the hpp files and be done with it. SMH
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Ask HN: How I get a job that uses C?
All the current major game engines are C++. C hasn't been widely used since the Quake 3 days.
While yes the Vulkan & OpenGL APIs are pure C, that's very, very little of what you actually code against. You very quickly abstract that or use a middleware like bgfx or whatever. In the case of Vulkan while the spec API is C, there's first-class C++ wrappers/bindings provided as well: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Hpp
And other than Vulkan & OpenGL, you'll find that most other APIs/libraries in the space are C++, not C. Valve's libraries are C++. Dear ImGui is C++. Bullet & PhysX are C++. Microsoft's glTF SDK is C++. etc...
You can argue endlessly about how "true C++" those all are or if they're just "C with namespaces" but that's largely irrelevant - they aren't C and they need a C++ compiler.
What are some alternatives?
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
Ogre 3D - scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine (C++, Python, C#, Java)
OpenSceneGraph - OpenSceneGraph git repository
GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
Skia - Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.
urho3d - Game engine
Irrlicht - An automatically updated mirror of the Irrlicht SVN repository on sourceforge
OpenVDB - OpenVDB - Sparse volume data structure and tools
OpenSubdiv - An Open-Source subdivision surface library.