Keep It Simple, Stupid 3d graphics engine.
This library is born from the frustration in front of the fact that today’s 3D graphics library are:
- either too low level: you have to write your own shaders and opening a window steals you 8 hours, 300 lines of code and 10L of coffee.
- or high level but too hard to understand/use: those are libraries made to write beautiful animations or games. They have a lot of feature; too much feature if you only want to draw a few geometries on the screen.
kiss3d is not designed to be feature-complete or fast. It is designed to be able to draw simple geometric figures and play with them with one-liners.
An on-line version of this documentation is available here.
Most features are one-liners.
- open a window with a default arc-ball camera and a point light.
- a first-person camera is available too and user-defined cameras are possible.
- display boxes, spheres, cones, cylinders, quads and lines.
- change an object color or texture.
- change an object transform (we use the nalgebra library to do that).
- create basic post-processing effects.
As an example, having a red, rotating cube with the light attached to the camera is as simple as:
extern crate kiss3d;
extern crate nalgebra as na;
use na::Vector3;
use kiss3d::window::Window;
use kiss3d::light::Light;
fn main() {
let mut window = Window::new("Kiss3d: cube");
let mut c = window.add_cube(1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
c.set_color(1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
window.set_light(Light::StickToCamera);
while window.render() {
c.prepend_to_local_rotation(&Vector3::new(0.0f32, 0.014, 0.0));
}
}
Some controls are handled by default by the engine (they can be overridden by the user):
scroll
: zoom in / zoom out.left click + drag
: look around.right click + drag
: translate the view point.enter
: look at the origin (0.0, 0.0, 0.0).
You will need the last nightly build of the rust compiler and the official package manager: cargo.
Simply add the following to your Cargo.toml
file:
[dependencies.kiss3d]
git = "https://github.com/sebcrozet/kiss3d"
I’d love to see people improving this library for their own needs. However, keep in mind that kiss3d is KISS. One-liner features (from the user point of view) are preferred.
Thanks to all the Rustaceans for their help, and their OpenGL/ffmpeg/stb-image/etc. bindings.