bgfx

Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library. (by bkaradzic)
Add to my DEV experience #Graphics #Engine #Rendering #DirectX #Vulkan #Metal #OpenGL #D3d9 #D3d11 #D3d12 #Gles #Webgl #GLFW #SDL #Gamedev #directx-11 #directx-12 #vulkan-api #Webgpu #Dawn
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  • Ask HN: Released games built on FOSS engines?
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Oct 2023
    https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx for just that FOSS intermediate rendering library (includes Minecraft)
  • Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening, There Aren't Enough Players
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023
  • The Ultimate Cross-Platform Rendering Engine?
    3 projects | /r/GraphicsProgramming | 18 Aug 2023
    BGFX: Pretty mature and easy to use with many backends.
  • Cairo – Open-Source 2D Graphics Layer/API with Fonts and Many Back-Ends
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2023
  • LWJGL = SFML vs Allegro vs SDL vs Ogre vs ???
    2 projects | /r/GraphicsProgramming | 5 Jul 2023
    There's kind of a lack of this for C++ in 3D, I think it's often due to the necessity of a secondary scripting language in game engines with C++, which isn't necessarily needed in Java or C#. SFML is like that (but also 2D), Godot is similar (but more geared towards 2D). Ogre3D is an actual engine like I mentioned earlier, not sure how easy it is to use. Cocos2d is higher level, but is also 2D only. I'm not fond of SDL, it feels like a windowing library with slow old school immediate mode stuff attached, so it ends up not being good at the rest of the tacked on things. SDL is popular as a windowing library, and it's why you see it used everywhere (but the most notable uses of it aren't using their drawing capabilities), I often see bgfx thrown around, and for you it might be a good choice, though I have no experience with it.
  • Is it a crazy idea to create a 3D operating system?
    5 projects | /r/osdev | 21 May 2023
    Another route could be using an abstraction over Vulkan (faster, more efficient, more difficult): bgfx, dawn, magma, or wgpu (Rust).
  • The update we all want but will never get
    2 projects | /r/PhoenixSC | 28 Mar 2023
    my guess for why renderdragon made performance worse is because old bedrock was built on bgfx which is a layer of abstraction ontop of a bunch of graphics apis which benefits the programmer because they can write the graphics code once and use it on a bunch of graphics apis (just like java! i heart cross compatibility)
    2 projects | /r/PhoenixSC | 28 Mar 2023
    now, java is actually quite a performant language and even if its not most of the performance bugs in mc are due to it being single threaded, inefficient chunk generation and optimizing, and it built ontop of opengl WHICH isn't much of a performance hit but its still ehh idk it doesn't matter that much (NOW SWITCHING THE GAME TO AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT GRAPHICS API WOULD SUCK ASS TO DO (and vulkan is quite verbose :))) (AND also bgfx would probably be better due to it being an abstraction layer ontop of all the graphics apis so minecraft could target many depending on your platform (and also bedrock used to (or still does i dont know) use bgfx before they switched to just two (IF IM READING MC WIKI RIGHT BECAUSE IM NOT ENTIRELY SURE IF THEY USE BGFX STILL ?? SO THEY COULD STILL BE TARGETING MULTIPLE YET THEY JUST WROTE THEIR NEW SHIT BAD IDK))
  • GUI frameworks for an SDL-based roguelike?
    4 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 26 Mar 2023
    We use a lot of software used by big companies. :) Git and C++ come to mind. But as far I see on their software list there are one or two roguelikes. Also, bgfx uses ImGUI under the hood, so it is a good place to see how it can look or even use it instead of just ImGUI.
  • Best C++ Game Framework
    4 projects | /r/gameenginedevs | 10 Mar 2023
    I think if you're not going to use an existing game engine, it makes sense to learn OpenGL and implement things yourself, or use something with the explicit goal of being a rendering abstraction like bgfx. It's more of a time commitment though, and sfml is much simpler and easier to get started with.
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bkaradzic/bgfx is an open source project licensed under BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of bgfx is C++.

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