bgfx - Cross-platform rendering library

What is it?

Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

Supported rendering backends:

• Direct3D 9
• Direct3D 11
• Direct3D 12 (WIP)
• Metal (WIP)
• OpenGL 2.1
• OpenGL 3.1+
• OpenGL ES 2
• OpenGL ES 3.1
• WebGL 1.0

Supported HMD:

• OculusVR (0.4.2+)

Supported platforms:

• Android (14+, ARM, x86, MIPS)
• asm.js/Emscripten (1.25.0)
• FreeBSD
• iOS (iPhone, iPad, AppleTV)
• Linux
• MIPS Creator CI20
• Native Client (PPAPI 37+, ARM, x86, x64, PNaCl)
• OSX (10.9+)
• RaspberryPi
• Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10)
• WinRT (WinPhone 8.0+)

Supported compilers:

• Clang 3.3 and above
• GCC 4.6 and above
• vs2008 and above

Languages:

• C/C++ API documentation
• C#/VB/F# language API bindings
• D language API bindings
• Go language API bindings
• Java language API bindings
• Haskell language API bindings
• Rust language API bindings

Build

• AppVeyor https://ci.appveyor.com/project/bkaradzic/bgfx
• TeamCity https://tc27.draster.com/guestAuth/overview.html
• TravisCI https://travis-ci.org/bkaradzic/bgfx

Who is using it?

http://airmech.com/ AirMech is a free-to-play futuristic action real-time strategy video game developed and published by Carbon Games.

https://github.com/dariomanesku/cmftStudio cmftStudio - cubemap filtering tool.

https://github.com/taylor001/crown Crown is a general purpose data-driven game engine, written from scratch with a minimalistic and data-oriented design philosophy in mind.

https://github.com/emoon/ProDBG - ProDBG is a new debugger under development that will support a variety of targets and operating systems. Currently it's in very early development and primary focusing on Mac as primary target. This is how it currently looks.

http://www.dogbytegames.com/ Dogbyte Games is an indie mobile developer studio focusing on racing games.

https://github.com/andr3wmac/Torque6 Torque 6 is an MIT licensed 3D engine loosely based on Torque2D. Being neither Torque2D or Torque3D it is the 6th derivative of the original Torque Engine.

https://github.com/cgbystrom/twinkle GPU-accelerated UI framework powered by JavaScript for desktop/mobile apps. Idea is to combine the fast workflow and deployment model of web with the performance of native code and GPU acceleration.

https://github.com/nem0/LumixEngine LumixEngine is a MIT licensed 3D engine. The main goal is performance and Unity-like usability.

https://github.com/podgorskiy/KeplerOrbits KeplerOrbits - Tool that calculates positions of celestial bodies using their orbital elements. Web Demo

https://github.com/cyberegoorg/cetech - CETech is Data-Driven game engine and toolbox inspired by Bitsquid/Stingray engine.

https://github.com/jpcy/ioq3-renderer-bgfx - A renderer for ioquake3 written in C++ and using bgfx to support multiple rendering APIs.

http://makingartstudios.itch.io/dls - DLS the digital logic simulator game.

Building

Examples

API Reference

Tools

License (BSD 2-clause)

Copyright 2010-2016 Branimir Karadzic. All rights reserved.

https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx

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