noire-rs

A minimal 3d rendering library written in Rust, it's mostly a port from existing code. It is first and foremost designed to experiment with Open GL shaders.

Build

First install cargo-watch to constantly compile the project while changing code.

cargo install cargo-watch

Then run the watch task

cargo watch -c -x "+nightly build"

Examples

There are a number of example applications using this library, found in the examples folder. Run

cargo run --example

to list the examples.

To run one example. e.g. triangles run

cargo run --example triangles

The latter example also supports live editing of the shader files, check shader files, open files in ./examples/triangles/shaders in your text editor, edit and save it. If the new shader code compiles successfully, changes are applied immediately or otherwise error logs are displayed in the terminal.

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