miniquad
Cross platform rendering in Rust (by not-fl3)
piston
A modular game engine written in Rust (by PistonDevelopers)
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8.0 | 4.9 | |
6 days ago | 5 months ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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miniquad
Posts with mentions or reviews of miniquad.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.
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OpenGL crates: gl vs glow vs glium
You also have Miniquad which is a very cool minimal graphics project. It has almost zero dependencies (only system ones), and compiles under 2 seconds to give you a window with OpenGL on all platforms including mobile very easily. It has a wrapper graphics API but it doesn't try to be modeled after OpenGL at all (after all it might support Metal in the future), so it's gonna be quite different doing your project in it, but it's still the same kind of low level graphics.
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Please suggest high quality render library
Theirs also https://github.com/asny/three-d or https://github.com/not-fl3/miniquad. Or lower level ones like WGPU or GLOW.
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Is there a way to use piston with wasm?
In that same rust game jam the second most used engine was macroquad, which was used by 3 games, two of which are playable in the browser. Macroquad is a cross-platform game library inspired by raylib. Macroquad is built on top of miniquad. I think macroquad is a bit more approachable than bevy since macroquad doesn't impose an ECS and tries to be minimal with its features so they are available in all of the platforms it targets.
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Rust alternative for PyGame ?
(miniquad is a lower level lib https://github.com/not-fl3/miniquad - both miniquad and good-web-game is built on top of it)
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Tetris Livecoding stream #3: Rendering with SDL2
Nice! Would love to see the same thing done with miniquad though.
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Show HN: Life Simulation Written in Rust
Looks like it won't work out of the box, unfortunately, since {macro,mini}quad doesn't support a custom X11 parent window :-(
But I've opened an issue upstream to track functionality in the renderer that would allow this[1].
[1]: https://github.com/not-fl3/miniquad/issues/250
- Question about rust graphics libraries
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Rust, For GameDev
Single command deploy for both WASM and Android build instructions
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Minimal graphics crate for Rust
Hi, I am using macroquad. There is an issue with `window_reizable` property. In my archlinux, this property doesn't work when set to `false`. Then I saw here that it is used only for windows. If I am correct, could you let me know the reason for this? Thanks
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Modern and lightweight 2d graphics engine
If you want to write your own shaders: miniquad.
piston
Posts with mentions or reviews of piston.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-15.
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placing pixels
Well, it depends on how you use it; writing to an image buffer isn't much less efficient than writing to any normal buffer (in fact, although displaying your scene to a window efficiently is important, your main bottleneck will be the actual ray tracing loop). You may want to read this article for a practical example of using an ImageBuffer to create and draw a texture with Piston. Other window backends you could use, apart from pixels which was already mentioned in another comment, include minifb and Mini GL, though I haven't personally used them.
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Ways to create game engines
And I really like generic systems where you can create a lot of different things. A program that interested me is Piston (https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/piston), I haven't researched it in depth yet, but the concept of being able to create several things with a base and different modules is very interesting
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Really frustrated. [Warning: Bit of a negative rant]
Try Piston
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What would be best for a 2D only game? Piston, Bevy, or Fyrox?
I haven't seen too much on Piston. No idea how active or recent these projects are but I'm still interested in working with it.
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I made my first GL project using Piston.
Check out their homepage, https://piston.rs, they even show off some great examples of how their library has been used!
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Emulating the Sega Genesis - Part II
Before I could implement the display output, I needed something to draw the images onto. There are quite a few Rust crates available to create a GUI window and update it with 2D graphics. Most of these are of course intended for making games, and also include ways of getting key presses as input, which I'll also need. I looked at Piston, which I've used before on other projects, Macroquad, which also supports web assembly as well as desktop targets, Pixels, which is intended specifically for 2D games, and Minifb, which is also specifically for 2D applications, but is much simpler. I also tried out libretro, which is specifically made for video game emulation, but I found it much more restrictive than the others because of it's narrow focus.
- Piston.rs: un motor de creación de juegos hecho en Rust
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I'm a "low-level, terminal-only" kind of developer, completely new to the game dev world. I've been working on a 2D platformer in my spare time. Can you explain to me what I'm missing out on, by not using a "game engine"?
Depends on my goals. I year ago I wanted to learn rust, so I used piston for a gamejam. (There are several rust engines including bevy, piston, amethyst. They probably vary in quality, features, and constraints.) Piston was a terrible experience because compilation is slow even on that tiny project.
- Question about rust graphics libraries
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Rust Game Engines (again)
Piston
What are some alternatives?
When comparing miniquad and piston you can also consider the following projects:
macroquad - Cross-platform game engine in Rust.
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
rust-sfml - SFML bindings for Rust
ggez - Rust library to create a Good Game Easily
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
Amethyst - Data-oriented and data-driven game engine written in Rust
pixels - A tiny hardware-accelerated pixel frame buffer. 🦀
rust-sdl2 - SDL2 bindings for Rust
vulkano-examples - Examples of using vulkano
RG3D - 3D and 2D game engine written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/FyroxEngine/Fyrox]