moongl VS cute_headers

Anyone know how to get started doing OpenGL with lua? I tried this library -> https://github.com/stetre/moongl but kept getting certain errors when running make. So any one know any other library's or maybe some other ways of using OpenGL like maybe a c library with lua or something? Or maybe if anyone one has experience using this library maybe theres something I might be missing?

If you don't mind using software developed and maintained by an individual (myself), there's MoonGL together with a few other companion libraries. They are all documented and come with quite a few examples.

If you want a proof of concept, check out this example. It is a port I made of the Breakout game from Joey de Vries' LearnOpenGL, using only binding libraries (no framework).

And you can absolutely implement an ECS in Lua. It won't be as performant as in a language where you have direct memory access, but there is more to the ECS pattern than just performance, like modularity and separation of data and logic. I would never suggest anyone to implement a full blown game engine in Lua (though you could, using bindings like this: https://github.com/stetre/moongl) but it is certainly possible.

Bindings to OpenGL: https://github.com/stetre/moongl

- https://github.com/RandyGaul/cute_headers/blob/master/cute_s...

It's a simple and relatively straightforward approach that a sufficiently bright programmer would come up in their own while looking at the design constraints though, so overall I find it a bit meaningless to find the ultimate person for the "original idea".

The verdict for indie developers (not using Unity/Unreal) seems: just bite the bullet and buy FMOD (or Wwise or any of the popular proprietary audio engies).

I was actually searching for a good open-source audio library to use, and found out that my options aren't that good. SoLoud is a pain in the ass to install and integrate into an existing codebase, and OpenAL doesn't have any good implementations available (either proprietary or LGPL). I'm now just using a simple single-header audio library in cute_headers (https://github.com/RandyGaul/cute_headers/blob/master/cute_s...), but will probably switch to MiniAudio once the high-level API is finished (https://github.com/mackron/miniaudio/issues/196)

Currently I'm looking at a "header only" cute_tiled.h library that includes this instruction:

Thanks for the pure collision library share! As far as collision goes, decided to look up other libraries! 3D alternatives https://github.com/flexible-collision-library/fcl Alternatives to yours https://github.com/RandyGaul/cute_headers

single header libraries (https://github.com/nothings/stb , https://github.com/RandyGaul/cute_headers , etc) can do some of the heavy lifting. I use stb for OGG and PNG decoding, also true type support, and maybe a few other things.