Where would one even begin if they wanted to build a 3D rendering engine in C?

• tinyrenderer

  60 19,305 0.0 C++

  A brief computer graphics / rendering course

For a quick intro: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki (in C++ but it shouldn’t be hard to write it in C instead)

• software-3d-renderer

  5 26 0.0 C

  A software 3D renderer I wrote during a games jam at work. The game is inspired by Monolith's Blood (1997).

Only my C++ one I wrote for a games jam is public. It is heavily based on this book.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• iffe

  3 1 0.0 C

  An object-oriented UI library for UNIX-like platforms.

It should be fairly easy to rewrite in C. Though you will need to find a solution to the 1 level of inheritance for the ECS if you want something more than just a renderer (i.e to create more substantial scenes). I have a similar solution (but for Widget inheritance) here.

• LearnOpenGL

  624 10,213 3.7 C++

  Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com

If you want to actually learn how to write your own rendering engine, start here: https://learnopengl.com/ but be warned it can be a pretty big undertaking, even with a simple API like GL.

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