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nanovg
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nanovg VS nitro-gl - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 21 Aug 2023
- Cairo – Open-Source 2D Graphics Layer/API with Fonts and Many Back-Ends
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2D graphics lib recommendation?
I use nanovg for my projects and it works surprisingly well for its size. It integration is pretty simple .... if you know a little bit of OpenGL, otherwise there is a slight learning curve.
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minimax — minimalist 3D game engine in Clojure
The "engine" is built on top of amazing https://www.lwjgl.org/ and https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx/, and UI system is baked by https://github.com/memononen/nanovg and https://github.com/facebook/yoga
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W4 Games formed to strengthen Godot ecosystem
NanoVG is the closest thing I came across when I had a similar quesiton: https://github.com/memononen/NanoVG
unfortunately it doesn't seem like it's getting steady updates now unlike the last time I checked. But I imagine it's pretty mature at this point. There also seem to be ports in Metal/DX11 if you didn't want to be stuck in OpenGL.
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Why are there so little Skia recources?
Also there's NanoVG if you really want a vector api in C, but don't need anti-aliased clipping.
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Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs
Getting sufficient antialiasing quality for 2D graphics is difficult on GPUs. https://github.com/memononen/nanovg accomplishes this with GL2/GLES2 level hardware for most of the stuff one would want to render as part of a GUI. My project https://github.com/styluslabs/nanovgXC supports rendering arbitrary paths with exact coverage antialiasing, but requires GLES3.1 or GL4 level hardware for reasonable performance.
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Ask HN: Modern Alternatives to C
> to learn the 'nuts and bolts' of rendering
These nuts and bolts are very different between CPU and GPU. CPU-based libraries are painting pixels in bitmaps in system memory. Most GPU-based libraries are uploading indexed triangle meshes, and rendering them with weird shaders.
Worse, there're no good open source implementations of GPU-based ones. Microsoft ships an implementation as a part of OS (Direct2D) but it's not open source. Linux simply doesn't have an equivalent.
At least for initial versions, consider C interop with this https://github.com/memononen/nanovg It cuts a few corners (no cleartype for text, CPU overhead for repeated rendering of same static paths) but it's still good overall, simple, and easy to use.
> My only concern with C# is the cross compatibility
Works well on Linux, Windows and OSX, including ARM CPUs. Not sure about Android and iOS, never tested.
My largest concern with C# would be performance. Technically the language allows to code in any style, but most guides and examples are using OO-heavy one.
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Any good video tutorials on making a OS with a GUI?
In fact, if using a modern graphics pipeline with shaders, you will actually have to learn how to draw a single rectangle to your screen, and then use that knowledge to draw (anti-aliased) lines, rectangles, arcs, circles, ellipses, etc. too. For instance, have a look at https://www.cairographics.org/ https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear https://github.com/memononen/nanovg and https://github.com/nical/lyon. There are probably also tutorials on how to draw vectorized graphics using OpenGL, Vulkan, etc.
- So you want to write a GUI framework
sokol
- STB: Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
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Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
I'm using Dear ImGui for my cross-platform code (which includes running in browsers):
- https://floooh.github.io/visual6502remix/
- https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/c64-ui.html
- (start these samples by clicking on the little "UI" icon) https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/
Platform abstraction is handled through the sokol headers: https://github.com/floooh/sokol
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New Vulkan Documentation Website
I wonder if using your library (https://github.com/floooh/sokol) instead of OpenGL will alleviate some of these issues for newcomers! There's already a sokol port of the learnopengl.com code (https://github.com/GeertArien/learnopengl-examples), so it shouldn't be too hard to match between the tutorial articles and these.
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Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library
If you're looking for something like this, Sokol is a much simpler alternative:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol
It doesn't support vulkan though, but if that's important to you you're probably much better off just using vulkan directly since it's supported on all the major platforms.
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Why glibc 2.34 removed libpthread
All I can do is give you a couple of Github ticket links where users of my libraries stumbled over the issue (and with different symptoms):
- https://github.com/floooh/sokol/issues/376
- https://github.com/floooh/sokol/issues/404
- https://github.com/floooh/cimgui-sokol-starterkit/issues/6
We then added a dummy call to a no-op pthread function, so that users can better figure out that they need to use -pthread because now they get a linker error instead of a runtime crash or hang. This has since reduced the 'support overhead' quite a bit:
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File for Divorce from LLVM
My stuff for instance:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol
...inspired by:
https://github.com/nothings/stb
But it's not so much about the build system, but requiring a separate C/C++ compiler toolchain (Rust needs this, Zig currently does not - unless the proposal is implemented).
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Website with Godot?
And I asked floooh for similar thoughts on making a website with sokol here: https://github.com/floooh/sokol/issues/825
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I want to talk about WebGPU
It's not Rust and TS, instead C and JS, but Emscripten has a very nice way of integrating C/C++ and JS (you can just embed snippets of Javascript inside C/C++ source files), e.g. starting at this line, there's a couple of embedded Javascript functions which can be called like C functions directly from the "C side":
https://github.com/floooh/sokol/blob/4535a3b4be59eb912e77e04...
- Learn WebGPU
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Looking for a C++ 2D/3D rendering engine/api.
Try sokol, but maybe it's look like low level for you https://github.com/floooh/sokol
What are some alternatives?
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
Skia - Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
tinyrenderer - A brief computer graphics / rendering course
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
LearnOpenGL - Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com
v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
DiligentEngine - A modern cross-platform low-level graphics library and rendering framework
MetalNanoVG - The Metal port of NanoVG.
microui - A tiny immediate-mode UI library
gunslinger - C99, header-only framework for games and multimedia applications