SDL_gpu, a library for making hardware-accelerated 2D graphics easy. by Jonathan Dearborn

SDL_gpu is licensed under the terms of the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for details of the usage license granted to you for this code.

FEATURES

• High performance (it automatically collects and submits batches instead of separate draw commands for each sprite and redundant state changes)
• Shader API
• Arbitrary geometry rendering (triangles)
• Can be integrated with explicit OpenGL calls (mixed 2D and 3D)
• Full blend state control
• Built-in primitive shapes (points, lines, tris, rects, ellipses, polygons, even arcs)
• Uses a style familiar to SDL 1.2 users
• Compatible with either SDL 1.2 or 2.0
• Loads BMP, TGA, and PNG files via stb-image
• Rotates and scales about the center of images, making reasoning about the resulting corner coordinates more obvious (adjustable via anchor settings)

HELP OUT

SDL_gpu is free and open source! You can help either by contributing a pull request, filling out a bug report, sending an email, or give me a chance to put more time into it by donating:

Anything you can do to help is really appreciated!

LATEST SOURCE

SDL_gpu is hosted on Github (https://github.com/grimfang4/sdl-gpu). You can check out the latest version of the source code with Git:

git clone https://github.com/grimfang4/sdl-gpu.git sdl-gpu

DEPENDENCIES

SDL 1.2 or SDL 2.0 (www.libsdl.org)
A rendering backend
	Currently implemented:
		OpenGL 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0
		OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0, 3.0

BUILDING

You can see automated build status at the project page on Travis CI:

Automated builds will soon be available on the Github.io page.

SDL_gpu uses CMake (www.cmake.org) to coordinate the library build process. CMake is available as a GUI program or on the command line.

For Linux/UNIX systems, run CMake in the base directory:

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"
make
sudo make install

For Linux/UNIX systems, changing the default installation directory can be done like so:

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

For Windows systems, you can use cmake-gui and select appropriate options in there (warning: cmake-gui is messy!).

INCLUDING / LINKING

Add the include for SDL_gpu.h to your sources. Link to SDL2_gpu (libSDL2_gpu.a) or SDL_gpu (if you use the old SDL 1.2).

FULL DOCUMENTATION

Documentation is automatically generated with Doxygen (http://sourceforge.net/projects/doxygen).

Pre-generated documentation can be found on the Github.io page: https://grimfang4.github.io/sdl-gpu/

CONVERSION

SDL_gpu can be used to replace the SDL_Render subsystem of SDL2. SDL_gpu uses GPU_Target to represent a render target (a render destination, e.g. the screen) instead of an SDL_Renderer object. SDL_gpu also uses GPU_Image as a texture container (a render source) instead of SDL_Texture.

Here is a list of most of the comparable functions:

SDL_CreateWindow() : Either use GPU_SetInitWindow() or replace with GPU_Init()
SDL_CreateRenderer() : GPU_Init()
SDL_LoadBMP() : GPU_LoadImage() or GPU_LoadSurface()
SDL_CreateTextureFromSurface() : GPU_CopyImageFromSurface()
SDL_SetRenderDrawColor() : Pass color into rendering function (e.g. GPU_ClearRGBA(), GPU_Line())
SDL_RenderClear() : GPU_Clear(), GPU_ClearRGBA()
SDL_QueryTexture() : image->w, image->h
SDL_RenderCopy() : GPU_Blit() or GPU_BlitRect()
SDL_RenderPresent() : GPU_Flip()
SDL_DestroyTexture() : GPU_FreeImage()
SDL_DestroyRenderer() : GPU_FreeTarget() (but don't free the screen target yourself)

SDL_RenderDrawPoint() : GPU_Pixel()
SDL_RenderDrawLine() : GPU_Line()
SDL_RenderDrawRect() : GPU_Rectangle()
SDL_RenderFillRect() : GPU_RectangleFilled()
SDL_RenderCopyEx() : GPU_BlitRotate() or GPU_BlitScale() or GPU_BlitTransform()
SDL_SetRenderDrawBlendMode() : GPU_SetShapeBlendMode()
SDL_SetTextureBlendMode() : GPU_SetBlendMode()
SDL_SetTextureColorMod() : GPU_SetRGBA() or GPU_SetColor()
SDL_SetTextureAlphaMod() : GPU_SetRGBA() or GPU_SetColor()
SDL_UpdateTexture() : GPU_UpdateImage() or GPU_UpdateImageBytes()
SDL_RenderSetClipRect() : GPU_SetClip() or GPU_SetClipRect()
SDL_RenderReadPixels() : GPU_CopySurfaceFromTarget() or GPU_CopySurfaceFromImage()
SDL_RenderSetViewport() : GPU_SetViewport()
SDL_SetRenderTarget() : GPU_LoadTarget()

Some SDL functions use a rectangular region passed as an SDL_Rect. SDL_gpu uses floating point coordinates for subpixel precision, so you may have to use GPU_Rect for some SDL_gpu functions.