moonlibs
Lua libraries for graphics and audio programming (by stetre)
luasdl2
A pure C binding of SDL 2.0 for Lua 5.1, Lua 5.2, and LuaJIT. (by Tangent128)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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moonlibs
Posts with mentions or reviews of moonlibs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-02.
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Documentation for LuaGL
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.
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Best lua 3D engines?
Thank you for mentioning it. I wrote also bindings for OpenGL, GLFW, and a few other libraries (see https://github.com/stetre/moonlibs ). Desktop only.
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Are there any simple audio libraries?
You'll probably have better luck with an audio library, I haven't used one myself but this page lists 3 options https://github.com/stetre/moonlibs
luasdl2
Posts with mentions or reviews of luasdl2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-27.
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What can i use to draw graphics with lua?
As someone else mentioned, try SDL2 directly if Löve2D isn't your thing. https://github.com/Tangent128/luasdl2
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Are there any simple audio libraries?
What about SDL_mixer? https://github.com/Tangent128/luasdl2
What are some alternatives?
When comparing moonlibs and luasdl2 you can also consider the following projects:
moonvulkan - Lua bindings for Vulkan
moongl - Lua bindings for OpenGL
3DreamEngine - 3DreamEngine is an *awesome* 3d engine for LÖVE.
luv - Bare libuv bindings for lua