Alan-FGR/junkyard_gfx

A collection of open source projects for low level graphics dev

junkyard_gfx

Small C/C++ libraries for low level real-time graphics

• General purpose
• Math
• Meshes
• Texture Backing
• Scenegraphs
• Animation
• Threading
• Physics and Collision
• Renderers

General purpose

• septag/sx - Portable base library for C programmers, tailored for performance and simplicity
• rhoot/sp - Public domain string formatting micro-library for C++, based on python-style format strings
• nothings/stb - stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
• RandyGaul/cute_headers - One-file C/C++ libraries with no dependencies, primarily used for games
• vurtun/mmx - single header libraries for C/C++
• zpl-c/zpl - Your C99 Powerkit
• rmitton/rjm - Various single-file C libraries.

Math

• g-truc/glm - OpenGL Mathematics (GLM)
• recp/cglm - Optimized OpenGL/Graphics Math (glm) for C
• google/mathfu - C++ math library developed primarily for games focused on simplicity and efficiency.
• ferreiradaselva/mathc - Pure C math library for 2D and 3D programming
• demianmnave/CML The Configurable Math Library http://cmldev.net
• sce_vectormath - Vector math library
• Imath - Imath

Geometry

• MathGeoLib - library for linear algebra and geometry manipulation for computer graphics
• sseculling - SSE Frustum Culling Demo
• Cullminator9000 - The fastest culler ever

Meshes

• nem0/OpenFBX - Lightweight open source FBX importer
• syoyo/tinyobjloader - Tiny but powerful single file wavefront obj loader
• syoyo/tinygltfloader - Header only C++ Tiny glTF loader.
• SeamAwareDecimater - Mesh simplification with UV's boundary preserved
• libigl - Simple C++ geometry processing library

Texture Baking

• caosdoar/Fornos - GPU Texture Baking Tool. A fast and simple tool to bake your high-poly mesh details to textures.
• kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump - AwesomeBump generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion textures from a single image
• dariomanesku/cmft, dariomanesku/cmftStudio - Cross-platform open-source command-line cubemap filtering tool

Scenegraphs / ECS

• buserror/libc3 - Lightweight C Scene Graph Library
• skypjack/entt - A fast and reliable entity-component system (ECS) and much more

Animation

• guillaumeblanc/ozz-animation - Open source c++ skeletal animation library and toolset

Threading

• rhoot/sc - Cross platform co-routine library exposed through a minimal C API
• deboost.context - "Deboostified" version of boost.context (coroutines), Plain and simple C API for context switching. Easy build on multiple platforms.
• SergeyMakeev/TaskScheduler - Multithreaded task scheduler experiments
• dougbinks/enkiTS - C++ and C multithreading task scheduler

Physics and Collision

• gjk.c - Gilbert-Johnson-Keerthi (GJK) collision detection algorithm
• nudge - A small data-oriented and SIMD-optimized 3D rigid body physics library.
• gpu sph fluids - GPU SPH fluids
• phyx - 2D physics engine with SoA/SIMD optimizations
• ParticleSolver - CPU and GPU implementations of a particle-based physics
• PlayRho - Real-time oriented physics engine and library that's currently best suited for 2D games
• Chipmunk2D - A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library.

Renderers

• bkaradzic/bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
• google/filament - Filament is a real-time physically based rendering engine for Android, Windows, Linux and macOS
• floooh/oryol - A small, portable and extensible C++ 3D coding framework
• fastuidraw - library that provides a higher performance Canvas interface

Texture Packing

• Cheetah-Texture-Packer - High efficient and fast 2D bin packing tool
• thekla_atlas - Atlas Generation Tool

Sound

• openal-soft - software implementation of the OpenAL 3D audio API
• soloud - Free, easy, portable audio engine for games

Pathfinding and Navigation

• jps - Jump Point Search, public domain, single .h (Super fast pathfinding on uniform grids)
• astar-algorithm-cpp - Implementations of the A* algorithm in C++ and C#
• MicroPather - A* solver (astar or a-star) written in platform independent C++
• recastnavigation - Navigation-mesh Toolset for Games

Input

• SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer
• glfw - A multi-platform library
• gainput - C++ input library for games

Misc

• easy_profiler - Lightweight profiler library for c++
• spdlog - Fast C++ logging library.
• color - C++ library thats implemets class color
• libmorton - C++ header-only library with methods to efficiently encode/decode Morton codes
• pugixml - Light-weight, simple and fast XML parser for C++ with XPath support