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OpenGL

OpenGL related Libs

• GLU - OpenGL Utility Library: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL_utility_library
• GLUT - OpenGL Utility Toolkit: Window Handling - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL_utility_toolkit
  • Superseeded by freeglut/OpenGLUT or better: GLFW
• GLUI - OpenGL User Interface (based on GLUT) - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL_user_interface_library (license: LGPL)
• GLFW - OpenGL FrameWork: Window Management - https://www.glfw.org/ (license: zlib/libpng)
• GLEW - OpenGL Extension Wrangler: OpenGL Extension management - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL_extension_wrangler_library (License: BSD, SFI, GLX, except Codegen scripts: GPL)
• GLUX - OpenGL Useful eXtensions: https://community.khronos.org/t/glux-library/60866

Tutos/Docs

• The Red Book 1994!
• https://learnopengl.com/In-Practice/2D-Game/Breakout
  • Code: https://github.com/JoeyDeVries/LearnOpenGL
  • Breakout (example game): https://github.com/Shot511/GameBreakout
• Lectures: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~bruce/fall_2016_cs_116a_lecture_introduction_to_opengl_and_glut.html
• eBook - Computer Graphics with OpenGL (Source Code): https://wps.prenhall.com/ecs_hearn_cg_o_gl_4/
• http://openglgui.sourceforge.net/gui_tut1.html
• List of Gui fx (as of 2018): https://philippegroarke.com/posts/2018/c++_ui_solutions/
• For embedded devices: https://itnext.io/top-five-libraries-for-creating-gui-on-embedded-linux-5ce03903be32

Gui

DearImGui

• https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
• https://github.com/mellinoe/ImGui.NET
• Article: https://ruurdsdevlog.wordpress.com/2020/03/07/c-desktop-application-with-dear-imgui/
• Screenshots: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/2847
• Companion projects:
  • ImGuiFreetype: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/master/misc/freetype/imgui_freetype.h, https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/618
  • ImGuiFontStudio: https://github.com/aiekick/ImGuiFontStudio
• Styling: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/4722
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ImGui.NET

• rgat: https://github.com/ncatlin/rgat (See also https://ncatlin.github.io/rgatPages/tracing/2021/11/19/visualising-hello-world.html)
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• Cafe Shader Studio: https://github.com/KillzXGaming/Cafe-Shader-Studio
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Others

• Adrien Heruble's imgui: https://github.com/AdrienHerubel/imgui

• SO Questions, Youtube Videos, Articles:

  • https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/3617/good-gui-for-opengl
  • https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/24103/immediate-gui-yae-or-nay
  • https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/708033-suggestions-regarding-rendering-ui-elements-and-text-with-opengl/
    • https://www.gamedev.net/juliean/
  • Strategies for optimizing OpenGL-based animated/zoomable 2D UI rendering
  • OpenGL GUI
  • C++ OpenGL GUI library: fast realtime prototyping in XML
  • C++ OpenGL GUI Library DevLog 3: Making of TreeView | illuxUI
  • Flexible UI with OpenGL and yoga library
    • See also https://gist.github.com/mochja/c4788a4801885b58c1e38d7fb4c091a9
  • C++ OpenGL GUI
  • Developing Graphical user interface widgets with OpenGL

• NanoGUI

  • https://github.com/wjakob/nanogui
  • NanoVG: https://github.com/memononen/NanoVG
  • NanoVG .NET: https://github.com/sbarisic/nanovg_dotnet

• nui3: https://github.com/libnui/nui3

  • Example App: https://github.com/meeloo/xspray

• GLGUI (C#): https://github.com/ands/GLGUI

• Fyne (Go): https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne

  • https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne

• GLV: https://github.com/alexesDev/glv

  • https://w2.mat.ucsb.edu/glv/

• Nuklear: https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear

  • Nuklear: https://dexp.in/articles/nuklear-intro/
  • Nuklear+: https://dexp.in/articles/nuklear-cross/

• SimpleGUI: http://marcinignac.com/blog/simplegui/

• QuickGUI: https://wiki.ogre3d.org/QuickGUI

• MyGUI: http://mygui.info/ -> https://github.com/MyGUI/mygui

• Cpp-OpenGL-Gui: https://github.com/zotya701/Cpp-OpenGL-GUI

• AssortedWidgets

  • https://github.com/shi-yan/AssortedWidgets
  • 3d Modeller: https://github.com/shi-yan/Pillow
  • Article (WebAssembly): https://shiyan.medium.com/rejuvenate-my-old-opengl-gui-with-webassembly-1d46a6baa52e

• Neogfx: https://neogfx.org/

• libRocket (GL + HTML + CSS): https://github.com/libRocket/libRocket

  • .NET Wrapper: https://nosebleedstudios.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/librocket-net-a-librocket-net-wrapper/

• Crazy Eddie's GUI (CEGUI): http://cegui.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page

• GWEN: https://github.com/garrynewman/GWEN

  • .NET (Port?): https://github.com/Yeyti/Gwen.CS

• Gigi: http://gigi.sourceforge.net/

• Rae (D): http://www.dsource.org/projects/rae

• Misc:

  • https://github.com/sp4cerat/Game-GUI
  • C# based (wip) "Hello ImGui": https://github.com/zwcloud/ImGui
  • SpeedyPainter has its own OpenGL based Gui
  • Ephtracy's (the author of MagicaVoxel) custom gui is also very nice.

Screenshots

Dear ImGui

Luapad:

NanoGUI, NanoVG, NanoVG .NET

nui3

GLGUI

Fyne

GLV

Nuklear

SimpleGUI

QuickGUI

AssortedWidgets

Neogfx

libRocket

CEGUI

GWEN

Gigi