FerrousGL

FerrousGL is a simple-to-use Rust library that provides simple abstractions over OpenGL and GLFW for creating graphical applications and games easier. It offers a straightforward way to handle windows, rendering, shader, textures and meshes without having to be fluent in graphics programming.

The library is very simple-to-use: First you can make a window. This window serves as the foundation for rendering meshes (on the main framebuffer or a custom render texture), shaders and input.

Key features

• Windows: Windows are like modular bricks of a foundation, the library allows for simultaneous creation & deletion of windows and input! This allows for simple multi-window applications or debug views!
• Meshes: Meshes are simple-to-use and allow for custom vertex attributes.
• Shaders: You can load shaders from files or from code. There is support for uniforms and textures.
• Textures: The textures allow you to load images to use in shaders and there are also render textures for rendering to an off screen buffer!

The library is designed to be simple-to-use while providing enough flexibility for most graphics programming tasks. It handles much of the boilerplate OpenGL code while exposing many things needed for 2D/3D rendering.

Example use cases

• Graphical applications such as drawing apps
• Games in 2D or 3D with custom engines
• Visualizations
• Learning OpenGL

Vision

How did this library come into existence? A friend once told me "Graphics programming is too hard; it's not worth getting into.", so FerrousGL was born. This library doesn't focus on being the most efficient (even tho I try to keep it quite fast), but it focuses on making OpenGL more accessible easily so you can write graphically powered software more easily!