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A tiny hardware-accelerated pixel frame buffer. 🦀 (by parasyte)
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Cross platform rendering in Rust (by not-fl3)
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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.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pixels
Posts with mentions or reviews of pixels.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-15.
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A minimal working Rust / SDL2 / WASM browser game
https://github.com/parasyte/pixels
That gives you a simple software framebuffer, and it builds as a native app or for the web.
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How do rust gui frameworks avoid rerendering?
On a more recent machine, that same (well, more primitive) app with pixels or softbuffer struggled beyond acceptable. But was definitely poorly written.
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Announcing lavagna v2, a collaborative blackboard made with bevy and WebRTC
I’ve ported the application from being based on pixels crate to the powerful bevy game engine
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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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Considerations for Power Draw with egui
You can use wgpu instead of opengl as in the pixels example: https://github.com/parasyte/pixels/tree/main/examples/minimal-fltk
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Is Macroquad suitable for making games like Wolfenstein RPG?
It might be possible but with a raycaster you probably want to be able to easily set all pixels and create your own small engine. Something like the pixels crate should fit your purpose: https://github.com/parasyte/pixels
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I love rust, I have a pet peeve with the community
The reality is that I have used unsafe that is also unsound out of convenience because fixing it is a papercut too many. And this tends to be common! I know enough to spot unsoundness in other projects (sometimes even early). But not enough to be confident in my own abilities to write sound unsafe code. Why? Because it's really flipping hard, that's why!
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[WGPU][GLFW][HELP]
Also, if you just want to get-things-done, then https://github.com/parasyte/pixels might be a bit better, to avoid reinventing the wheel.
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How to prevent performance drops affecting my Game Boy emulator when running on M1/M2 Macs?
However, I recently got a new M2 Macbook Air and started noticing some super weird behavior. While playing Pokemon Silver with an unlocked framerate, I'd notice that the game would slow down to below 60FPS, even on a release build. After printing a little debugging info I found the culprit in the rendering logic which was handled by the MiniFB crate. At first I thought switching to a GPU renderer (such as https://github.com/parasyte/pixels) would help, and it... kinda did?
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Simple way to draw a pixel at coordinates
pixels uses wgpu and runs fine.
miniquad
Posts with mentions or reviews of miniquad.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pixels and miniquad 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
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
ggez - Rust library to create a Good Game Easily
vulkano-examples - Examples of using vulkano
rust_minifb - Cross platfrom window and framebuffer crate for Rust
bathtub - Application for plating process
ron - Rusty Object Notation