AxioDL/boo: Shell abstraction layer and rendering interface for 3D applications - boo

The exclusive focus of libBoo is 3D rendering using polygon-rasterization APIs like OpenGL or Direct3D. It exposes a unified command-queue API for calling the underlying graphics API.

The only per-platform responsibility of the client code is providing the shaders' source. Drawing, resource-management and state-switching are performed using the unified API; these may be written once for all platforms.

Client code is entered via the appMain method supplied in a callback object. This code executes on a dedicated thread with graphics command context available. The API may be used to synchronize loops on the client thread with the display refresh-rate.

Supported Backends

OpenGL 3.3+
Direct3D 11/12
Metal 1.1 (OS X 10.11 only for now, iOS coming soon)
[Coming soon] OpenGL ES 3.0
[Coming soon] Vulkan

Languages

C 74.7%

C++ 21.3%

Objective-C++ 2.9%

CMake 0.9%

Shell 0.2%