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Top 23 C++ Shader Projects
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Project mention: Tiny renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-13
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3d-game-shaders-for-beginners
🎮 A step-by-step guide to implementing SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game.
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The-Forge
The Forge Cross-Platform Framework PC Windows, Steamdeck (native), Ray Tracing, macOS / iOS, Android, XBOX, PS4, PS5, Switch, Quest 2
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It is Slang. A very cool project and it only got its public release relatively recently, so some sins are forgiven but there are so many typedefs.
https://github.com/shader-slang/slang/blob/master/include/sl...
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Project mention: ShaderGlass – Overlay for running GPU shaders on top of Windows desktop | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-03
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DirectXTK12
The DirectX Tool Kit (aka DirectXTK12) is a collection of helper classes for writing DirectX 12 code in C++
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HybridRenderingEngine
Clustered Forward/Deferred renderer with Physically Based Shading, Image Based Lighting and a whole lot of OpenGL.
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slop
slop (Select Operation) is an application that queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout. (by naelstrof)
Project mention: Show HN: X11 tool to share a screen area in any video meeting | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-14https://github.com/naelstrof/slop Can also use a utility like this one, which lets you select an area of the screen and output it in a specified format.
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NazaraEngine
Nazara Engine is a cross-platform framework aimed at (but not limited to) real-time applications requiring audio, 2D and 3D real-time rendering, network and more.
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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).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Shader projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | tinyrenderer | 21,720 |
| 2 | 3d-game-shaders-for-beginners | 18,498 |
| 3 | tinyraytracer | 5,147 |
| 4 | The-Forge | 5,076 |
| 5 | glslViewer | 4,923 |
| 6 | SHADERed | 4,483 |
| 7 | reshade | 4,483 |
| 8 | slang | 3,876 |
| 9 | tinykaboom | 2,370 |
| 10 | OpenShadingLanguage | 2,163 |
| 11 | ShaderGlass | 2,152 |
| 12 | DirectXTK12 | 1,586 |
| 13 | HybridRenderingEngine | 1,278 |
| 14 | TinyEngine | 1,066 |
| 15 | slop | 887 |
| 16 | hlslpp | 842 |
| 17 | NazaraEngine | 763 |
| 18 | DiligentCore | 663 |
| 19 | SoftwareRenderer | 654 |
| 20 | Yave | 476 |
| 21 | Cluster | 445 |
| 22 | skyrim-community-shaders | 337 |
| 23 | ISF4AE | 252 |
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