Sometimes even the best of us end up scratching our heads trying to work out why a complex chain of matrices isn’t being applied as we expected, and for the novice to computer graphics getting an intuitive grasp of how matrix multiplications chain together can be rather difficult. So I built a tool to allow […]
Category: raylib
Raylib uses, in part a library called GLFW, its a great way to help isolate your application from the vagaries of cross platform development, and adds a nice suite of functions to do tiresome things like creating a GL context (and much more besides). One nice feature is you can sync screen swaps to the […]
I happened to notice that Raylib has started implementing callbacks for some functions, and this is very welcome as its a small part of what makes libraries like GLFW so nice. Given that Raylib is intended also for novice users and those learning, I thought this concept bore an explanation as in the comment in […]
I happened to look inside a TMX file from the rather nice tile map editor (Tiled) I made the mistake of thinking “oh that looks fairly easy to parse…”. While there is a method to load TMX files with raylib it uses an external library, I thought hey I can just grab a single header […]
I previously demonstrated using the Nuklear GUI library in a 3d environment (here) and from time to time usually as I look again at an example to see how I’ve done something in the past, I’ll usually update the example as dependencies change. The changes in Raylib were basically minor, (from the front end perspective, […]
Cell shading (sometimes called toon shading) is a fantastic way to give your game a really neat style. There are really two different aspects to a toon shader, one is the banded lighting, and secondly the outlining of the whole model and also outlining the separate features in the model. In order to detect interior […]
[ TLDR ] The code is at the bottom of the post… I seem to have had incredable bad luck with OBJ files, while some lock up the loader (material hash map problem as far as I can tell) and some even still causing heap corruptions. I looked quite a bit into the current loader […]
At first glance turning a bunch of points into some kind of mesh should be an easy task. However look a bit closer and its a different matter. This is where qhull comes in really handy, designed specifically to do this and other closely related tasks, it comes as a stand alone application and also […]
Nearly a year ago I demonstrated using Nuklear with raylib, however because I was rendering the GUI inside a 3D environment (on a face of a 3D model rather than as a simple 2D overlay) Its occurred to me recently that the implementation might be a little confusing for someone just wanting to use Nuklear […]
I was recently considering implementing simple animation system with a vertex shader, when I remembered just what a pain debugging shaders can be… Implementing some kind of shader output can be difficult to do, time consuming and odds on you’ll be testing in a way that means the shader isn’t actually being used as it […]