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Top 23 C++ Rendering Projects
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bgfx
Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
Project mention: Layers All the Way Down: The Untold Story of Shader Compilation | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-18BGFX (https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx) uses a different approach. You basically write your shader in a GLSL-like language but it's all just (either very clever or very horrible) macro expansions that handles all the platform differences.
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Easy3D
A lightweight, easy-to-use, and efficient library for processing and rendering 3D data (C++ & Python)
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Unreal-Engine-Guide
Unreal Engine 5 Guide. Learn to develop games for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch.
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tgfx
A lightweight 2D graphics library for rendering texts, geometries, and images with high-performance APIs that work across various platforms.
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SoftGLRender
Tiny C++ Software Renderer / Rasterizer, and implements OpenGL and Vulkan renderers for comparison
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ospray
An Open, Scalable, Portable, Ray Tracing Based Rendering Engine for High-Fidelity Visualization
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C++ Rendering discussion
C++ Rendering related posts
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Layers All the Way Down: The Untold Story of Shader Compilation
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Bgfx: Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic rendering library
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I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (in 3 months)
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Orthodox C++
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Abstraction arround CommandBuffers and Queues
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Is it possible and realistic to learn independent of an API?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Rendering projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | tinyrenderer | 22,450 |
| 2 | blender | 16,078 |
| 3 | bgfx | 16,054 |
| 4 | Open3D | 12,707 |
| 5 | Piccolo | 6,364 |
| 6 | tinyraytracer | 5,202 |
| 7 | Ogre 3D | 4,331 |
| 8 | tiny-cuda-nn | 4,189 |
| 9 | mapnik | 3,832 |
| 10 | F3D | 3,704 |
| 11 | yocto-gl | 2,880 |
| 12 | asm-dom | 2,810 |
| 13 | tinykaboom | 2,388 |
| 14 | appleseed | 2,233 |
| 15 | Easy3D | 1,553 |
| 16 | zeno | 1,371 |
| 17 | Unreal-Engine-Guide | 1,330 |
| 18 | tgfx | 1,313 |
| 19 | tev | 1,238 |
| 20 | nCine | 1,205 |
| 21 | SoftGLRender | 1,087 |
| 22 | oneAPI-samples | 1,071 |
| 23 | ospray | 1,059 |
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