rafx

Acknowledgements

References

Rafx benefits from many great ideas from other people!

• The job/phase rendering design is inspired by the 2015 GDC talk “Destiny’s Multithreaded Rendering Architecture”.
• The render graph is inspired by the 2017 GDC talk “FrameGraph: Extensible Rendering Architecture in Frostbite”
  • see also “Render Graphs and Vulkan - a deep dive” for an implementation of a render graph on vulkan
• The low-level API is somewhat similar to the API from “The Forge”

Dependencies

Rafx also benefits from many excellent crates - in particular bindings to native graphics APIs. (This is not a complete list of dependencies, just ones of particular note for graphics programming).

General:

• raw-window-handle: https://github.com/rust-windowing/raw-window-handle

Vulkan:

• ash and ash-window: https://github.com/MaikKlein/ash
• gpu-allocator: https://github.com/Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator

Metal:

• metal: https://github.com/gfx-rs/metal-rs
• raw-window-metal: https://github.com/norse-rs/raw-window-metal
• objc: https://github.com/SSheldon/rust-objc
• dispatch: https://github.com/SSheldon/rust-dispatch
• cocoa-foundation: https://github.com/servo/core-foundation-rs
• block: https://github.com/SSheldon/rust-block

Shader Processing

• spirv-cross: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Cross
  • bindings: https://github.com/grovesNL/spirv_cross
• shaderc: https://github.com/google/shaderc
  • bindings: https://crates.io/crates/shaderc

Windowing:

• sdl2: https://www.libsdl.org
  • bindings: https://crates.io/crates/sdl2
• winit: https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit

Other Projects

• gfx-hal: https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx
  • While rafx does not use gfx-hal, the rust ecosystem is in a much better place for having it, and many of the crates that rafx does depend on are maintained by gfx-hal contributors
• MoltenVK: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
  • rafx has a native backend for metal and does not require MoltenVK, however rafx benefits from much of the pathfinding they have done, much of which has been rolled into projects like spirv-cross

Rust and the Rust Community

The rust ecosystem has many options for low- and high-level graphics programming, many of which are listed at https://arewegameyet.rs

Finally, the rust ecosystem is built and maintained by many brilliant and NICE people in the community. To everyone who has or will play a part in making the community and ecosystem a better place for everyone else, THANK YOU!!

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