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This is Refresh, an XNA-inspired 3D graphics library with modern capabilities.
License
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Refresh is licensed under the zlib license. See LICENSE for details.
About Refresh
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Refresh is directly inspired by FNA3D and intended to be a replacement for XNA's Graphics namespace.
XNA 4.0 is a powerful API, but its shader system is outdated and certain restrictions are awkward to handle in a modern context.
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In the way that XNA was "one step above" DX9, Refresh intends to be "one step above" Vulkan. It should map nicely to modern graphics APIs.
Refresh will initially have a Vulkan runtime implementation. Support for other APIs like DX12 may come later.
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For shaders, we consume SPIR-V bytecode.
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Dependencies
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Refresh depends on SDL2 for portability.
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Refresh never explicitly uses the C runtime.
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Building Refresh
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For *nix platforms, use CMake:
$ mkdir build/
$ cd build/
$ cmake ../
$ make
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For Windows, use the Refresh.sln in the "visualc" folder.
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Want to contribute?
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Issues can be reported and patches contributed via Github:
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https://github.com/thatcosmonaut/Refresh