renderdoc
RenderDoc is a stand-alone graphics debugging tool. (by baldurk)
wgpu
Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api. (by gfx-rs)
| renderdoc | wgpu | |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 195 | |
| 8,408 | 10,910 | |
| - | 2.5% | |
| 9.8 | 9.9 | |
| 7 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| C++ | Rust | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
renderdoc
Posts with mentions or reviews of renderdoc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-10.
- Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
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RenderDoc is a free MIT licensed stand-alone graphics debugger
heh https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc#readme is all "RenderDoc is intended for debugging your own programs only. Any discussion of capturing programs that you did not create will not be allowed in any official public RenderDoc setting, including the issue tracker, discord, or via email" but the 3 of the 4 screenshots are of dota2 :-D
Still, that looks handy for sure
- Descriptor Buffers with RenderDoc
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Need help: capture Hogwarts Legacy in RenderDoc?
He's pretty clear about it every time it's asked. Tracing copyrighted games is legally questionable, and tools like RenderDoc are often abused by people to do illegal asset ripping/reselling.
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Are bindless textures niche or weird?
Baldur explains why he won't implement bindless texture support in this issue: https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc/issues/850
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How to debug a non-working ray generation shader?
Unfortunately the main developer for Renderdoc is against adding ray tracing support : https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc/issues/2317
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Help implementing support for RenderDoc.
RenderDoc bug report: https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc/issues/2800
- RenderDoc v1.23 is now available
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Renderdoc Crashing On glfwCreateWindow()
Remember that Renderdoc is open source: https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc/. This means you can build it with symbols and attach a debugger.
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Renderdoc's GPU Selection on a laptop
Renderdoc works by inserting itself as a Vulkan layer, which means it can change the output of functions if it so chooses. As you can see in the RenderDoc version of vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices it changes how devices are returned, and this likely is the reason the order changes.
wgpu
Posts with mentions or reviews of wgpu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-23.
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GPU Compute in the Browser at the Speed of Native: WebGPU Marching Cubes
Oh look it's subgroup support landing last week: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/5301
- 3D and 2D: Testing out my cross-platform graphics engine
- Warp Terminal is now available for Linux
- Linux version of Warp terminal is here
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Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
And wgpu has been doing this for years. Things like descriptor indexing are not exposed to the web but used by Rust (mostly) engines on native.
https://wgpu.rs/
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New Renderers for GTK
If they used https://wgpu.rs/ they would get directx and metal for free (:
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Show HN: WebGPU Particles Simulation
IIRC it was delayed multiple times. I think the first intent to ship from chrome was before 100 but they kept pushing it off. Firefox still does not support it. There are projects like wgpu[0] that wrap provide a higher level API and I have used some projects using it with no issues. WFIW I didn't see any issue with OP's demo either.
[0] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
- Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU
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How do I become a graphics programmer? – A guide from AMD Game Engineering team
wgpu, the Rust WebGPU implementation is the bee's knees. https://wgpu.rs/ You can use it beyond the web.
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There is anything like wgpu.rs for Zig?
There is anything like wgpu.rs for Zig? wgpu.rs is an abstraction on top of Vulkan, Metal, DirectX, etc...
What are some alternatives?
When comparing renderdoc and wgpu you can also consider the following projects:
apitrace - Tools for tracing OpenGL, Direct3D, and other graphics APIs
vulkano - Safe and rich Rust wrapper around the Vulkan API
reshade - A generic post-processing injector for games and video software.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
dgVoodoo2 - Glide/DirectX implementation on D3D11/12
glow - GL on Whatever: a set of bindings to run GL anywhere and avoid target-specific code
DiligentEngine - A modern cross-platform low-level graphics library and rendering framework
rust-gpu - 🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧
vulkan-renderer - Game engine written with C++ and Vulkan.
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
Vulkan-Samples - One stop solution for all Vulkan samples
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.