List of free libraries

Engines and Middleware Programming

Started by Kylotan December 30, 2004 09:39 PM

195 comments, last by dcco 12 years, 10 months ago

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January 04, 2005 06:03 AM

Pixel Toaster

http://www.pixeltoaster.com

Open source c++ library for realtime software rendering.

It gives you a truecolor or floating point framebuffer at your choice, then converts the pixels to the display on the fly. Keyboard and mouse input, and a high resolution timer are also provided.

Currently supports only Windows (DirectX9), but ports to MacOS X and Unix (XWindows etc) are underway.

cheers

_the_phantom_

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January 05, 2005 12:06 AM

me again [grin]

OK, got a relase up and running now for the OpenGL Window Framework, complete with licence on site, source and lib releases for win32 and the source code for 4 example programs.

JohnBolton

1,373

January 06, 2005 10:15 PM

CPPUnit - a unit testing framework (LGPL)

John BoltonLocomotive Games (THQ)Current Project: Destroy All Humans (Wii). IN STORES NOW!

Dingo Games

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January 10, 2005 09:59 PM

Great list, but I didn't see PTK on the list. PTK is a great Mac/Windows 2d library running on top of OpenGL (so it's fast). It's free for freeware but it does have a PTK Watermark in the corner. I'm using it for my next game ( coming in a few weeks ).

James SayerDingo Gameswww.dingogames.comHome of The Three Musketeers: The Game, Tasty Planet, Jack of All Trades and Laser Dolphin

bit64

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January 10, 2005 10:39 PM

I have been wanting to create a web page dedicated to free game related libraries and tools for some time, I bought the space and its just sitting there empty. Unfortunately I cannot dedicate much time to creating and updating the site :( If anyone would be interested in a joint collaboration for this, let me know. My URL is www.dark-alley.com.

Don't be afraid to be yourself. Nobody else ever will be.

GameCreator

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January 14, 2005 07:56 PM

Thanks for the list Kylotan and everyone else who's contributed. I've looked through it and plan on exploring it more later. (I hope this is a sticky for a while.)

codemonster

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January 19, 2005 10:40 AM

Quote:Original post by JohnBSmall
math3d++ provides the normal matrix, vector and quaternion classes, and their associated operations.

BMF_Font bitmap font library (and font texture generator)

Here's a small update:

Trenki's site (math3d++, BMF_Font) has moved.
The new url is http://trenki.al.msshost.com

Accordingly his libraries can be found at:
math3d++
BMF_Font

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Promit

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January 19, 2005 08:47 PM

What about Cg and CgFX?

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Emmanuel Deloget

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January 24, 2005 07:57 AM

Quote:Original post by Promit
What about Cg and CgFX?

I believe you just invented these names ;)

Compression section:
lzo's realtime compression library (GPL)

Image loading section:
ijg (aka libjpeg) (open source)
libtiff (open source)

Regards,

-- Emmanuel D. [blog, in French] [blog, very bad googlized translation]

codeandroid

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January 24, 2005 09:30 AM

YAKE Game/VR engine, LGPL + custom licenses