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# TinyGL- New and Improved A major overhaul of Fabrice Bellard's TinyGL (still compiling with -std=c99) to be more useful as a software rasterizer. ## Tightly tweaked for performance On a single thread on an i7-6700 (Skylake, 2015), the standard "gears" demo runs at a higher framerate than glxgears on Mesa using a Ryzen 3900x (2019) (NOTE: TinyGL Compared without SDL overhead) I think I can safely say, this is the fastest single-threaded FOSS software GL implementation in existence. It's probably also the most portable ## Incredibly portable TinyGL is written in pure C99, and requires very few functions from the C standard library, it doesn't even require malloc and free (The calls are aliased to gl_malloc() and gl_free(), which you can replace with your own memory management model if you desire) If you are unsure if your target platform can support TinyGL, compile it with the buildtime and runtime tests enabled (They are, by default) if you get a TGL_BUILDT error, then you've failed the buildtime test. if you try to initialize the library and you get a crash with a print to standard out "TINYGL_FAILED_RUNTIME_COMPAT_TEST" then you've failed the runtime test. Without Polygon Stipple:  With Polygon Stipple:  Hello World test:  Texturing Test:  Model loading tests:   Without lighting:   This is a demo of the NO_DRAW_COLOR feature. Notice that the object appears to have a hole in it.  Blending:  Specular:  TinyGL 0.8 (c) 1997-2021 Fabrice Bellard, C-Chads, Gek (see License, it's free software) This is a maintained fork of TinyGL, by the C-Chads. It is a small, suckless Software-only partial GL 1.1 implementation. The original project was by Fabrice Bellard. We have forked it. The changelog is as such: * Disabled 8, 15, and 24 bit rendering modes. 16 and 32 are the only supported rendering modes (Coincidentally, they are also the fastest) * Allowed the fixed texture size to be changed at compile time. It must be a power of 2, but that is the only limitation. * Removed the entire GLX/NanoGLX part of the library. Not portable and mostly useless. * Implemented new functions and some more of GL 1.1's prototypes including polygon stipple. * Triangles can now be lit and textured at the same time! * Removed unused functions which bloat binary size and lengthen compile times. * Added support for glDepthMask and glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST) as per-GL-spec * ADDED BLENDING SUPPORT! * Added glDrawPixels * Added glPixelZoom * Added glRasterPos2f,3f,4f,2fv,3fv,4fv * Added glGetString() for GL_VENDOR, GL_RENDERER, GL_VERSION, and GL_LICENSE * Added comprehensive, usable glGetError() functionality for debugging. * Fixed a myriad of bugs and... weirdnesses * Fixed clientside arrays * Tuned the triangle rasterizer to near-perfection. * Tuned the transformations to absolute perfection * Added glDrawArrays * Added Buffers (For memory management purposes) * Added glTexImage1D (... it just resizes it to 2D, but it works!) * Added glPixelSize (TODO is to implement distance scaling) * Fixed specular rendering * Added way more compile time options Note that this Softrast **is not GL 1.1 compliant** and does not constitute a complete GL implementation. You *will* have to tweak your code to work with this library. That said, once you have, it will run anywhere that you can get C99. TinyGL has very few external dependencies. Notable limitations: * The only supported texture size and format is RGB 256x256 * A lot of prototypes are missing. * glPolygonOffset doesn't change anything about how rendering occurs. It does nothing, at the moment. The "implementation specific multiplier" is 0. * There is no stencil buffer. * Blending can't use alpha values. the rasterizer has no concept of alpha. * There is no mipmapping, antialiasing, or any form of texture filtering. * No edge clamping. S and T are wrapped. * Display lists can be infinitely nested and doing so will crash TinyGL. * Lit triangles will use the current material properties, even if they are textured. If the diffuse color is black, then your textured triangles will appear black. * the X dimension of the rendering window with must be a multiple of 4. * Line rendering is not blended * The ARB extension for point sprite size attenuation is not enabled. * Point smoothing is not implemented, points are always squares of a solid color. * glCopyTexImage2D only works with the size of texture you decided at compile time. * <Undocumented limitations that have not been tested> ### HOW DO I USE THIS LIBRARY??? ```c //First you have to include #include "../include/GL/gl.h" #include "../include/zbuffer.h" /* Somewhere in your program... */ //Next, open a framebuffer. //The "0" parameter is where you pass in a framebuffer pointer if you've already made one. ZBuffer* frameBuffer = ZB_open(winSizeX, winSizeY, mode, 0); //Tell TinyGL to initialize on that framebuffer glInit(frameBuffer); //Begin making TinyGL calls! //At the end of your application, when you want to clean up. ZB_close(frameBuffer); glClose(); ``` Note that while you... *can* invoke ZB_Resize to resize the framebuffer, you really shouldn't. It isn't tested. ### WHAT ARE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS OF THIS LIBRARY? SDL 1.2 is required to run the demos I've written. SDL is by no means required to compile or use this library. SDL is used as a reasonable means of displaying the output of TinyGL for testing. (I also included some bonus libraries that work well with SDL in the SDL examples if you want to write games using TinyGL!) (Try compiling the demos with -D PLAY_MUSIC if you have mixer!) * A c99 compiler * 32 bit signed and unsigned integer types * 32 bit binary float type (STDC_IEC_559) * Some floating point type at least as large as a 32 bit float * sin and cos functions in math.h * memcpy in string.h * assert in assert.h (for debugging only, it can be stubbed) * a minimal C stdlib * A memory allocator of some sort with some equivalents or replacements for malloc, calloc, and free. There is no FILE* usage, or I/O outside of 'msghandling.c' so if you want to remove all stdio dependency, just stub out the calls there. ``` it is recommended that for best performance you keep TinyGL on a separate thread from SDL, and to guard TinyGL's buffer with a mutex. This is not done in the demos but you can test the... thickness of the SDL stack by invoking gears or helloworld with -nosdl The framerate doubles. ``` ### NEW FUNCTIONS These are functions not in the GL 1.1 spec that i've added to make this library more useful. These functions cannot be added as opcodes to display lists. ### glDeleteList An easier to use version of glDeleteLists. glDeleteLists is also implemented. ### glSetEnableSpecular(int shouldenablespecular); Allows you to configure specular rendering. Turn it off if you want to use GL_LIGHTING but don't plan on using specular lighting. it will save cycles. ### glGetTexturePixmap(int text, int level, int* xsize, int* ysize) Allows the user to retrieve the raw pixel data of a texture, for their own modification. ### glDrawText(const unsigned char* text, int x, int y, unsigned int pixel) This function can be added to display lists. Draws a pre-made 8x8 font to the screen. You can change its displayed size with... ### glTextSize(GLTEXTSIZE mode) This function can be added to display lists. Set size of text drawn to the buffer in aforementioned function. ### glPlotPixel(int x, int y, unsigned int pixel) This function can be added to display lists. Plot pixel directly to the buffer. ### glGenBuffers, glDeleteBuffers, glBindBuffer (valid target: ARRAY_BUFFER), glBindBufferAsArray Serverside buffers! Makes it a bit easier to do clientside array stuff at the moment. may be the site of future hardware acceleration. Please look at the model.c demo to see how to use these functions. They function very similarly to their GL 2.0+ counterparts. ## TOGGLEABLE FEATURES See `include/zfeatures.h` This changes too often to maintain documentation here. ## FIXED BUGS FROM THE ORIGINAL! TinyGL 0.4 by Bellard had incorrect color interpolation and issues with GL_FLAT, causing the hello world triangle to look rather... wrong. Additionally, per vertex color is just cool. The whole library was filled with memory leaks and read-past-by-one type errors, and they have been corrected. ## Notorious bugs from the original that have been fixed * GLParam is a union of float, int, uint, and void* which is assumed to be 32 bit... but isn't on 64 bit systems * Per vertex color is broken due to a faulty optimization in clip.c * The conventions for 32 bit color were RGBA for textured triangles and ABGR for non-textured. Now both render as ARGB. * Little endian was assumed in a thousand places in the code * Non-normalized position was used for lights at infinity. * Lack of error checking functionality * Insert unknown bugs here. ## FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH RGBA! The library is now able to be configured properly for RGBA rendering. Note that the output *is actually ARGB* but adjusting it is easy, see the SDL examples under SDL_EXAMPLES (They require SDL 1.2 and Mixer to compile) The library is sometimes by default configured for RGBA or 5R6G5B, check include/zfeatures.h and change the values in this table: ```c #define TGL_FEATURE_8_BITS 0 #define TGL_FEATURE_24_BITS 0 //These are the only maintained modes. #define TGL_FEATURE_16_BITS 1 #define TGL_FEATURE_32_BITS 0 ``` make sure that only ONE of these values is 1. ## ALSO COMPATIBLE WITH 16 BIT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ## BENCHMARK RESULTS (Old- the library is faster now) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ### CPU: i7-6700 (Gek) ### OS: Linux Mint Debian Edition at the default settings, 32 bit, ```c #define TGL_FEATURE_ARRAYS 1 #define TGL_FEATURE_DISPLAYLISTS 1 #define TGL_FEATURE_LIT_TEXTURES 1 //NOTE: Polygon Offset does nothing at the moment. #define TGL_FEATURE_POLYGON_OFFSET 0 #define TGL_FEATURE_POLYGON_STIPPLE 0 //A stipple pattern is 128 bytes in size. #define TGL_POLYGON_STIPPLE_BYTES 128 //A stipple pattern is 2^5 (32) bits wide. #define TGL_POLYGON_STIPPLE_POW2_WIDTH 5 //The stipple pattern mask (the last bits of the screen coordinates used for indexing) //The default pattern is 32 bits wide and 32 bits tall, or 4 bytes per row and 32 tall, 4 * 32 = 128 bytes. #define TGL_POLYGON_STIPPLE_MASK_X 31 #define TGL_POLYGON_STIPPLE_MASK_Y 31 //These are features useful for integrating TinyGL with other renderers. #define TGL_FEATURE_NO_COPY_COLOR 0 #define TGL_FEATURE_NO_DRAW_COLOR 0 #define TGL_FEATURE_FORCE_CLEAR_NO_COPY_COLOR 0 #define TGL_NO_COPY_COLOR 0xff00ff #define TGL_NO_DRAW_COLOR 0xff00ff //^ solid debug pink. #define TGL_COLOR_MASK 0x00ffffff //.. #define TGL_FEATURE_16_BITS 0 #define TGL_FEATURE_32_BITS 1 ``` ``` ./model -m monkey3.obj -count 27 ``` Hovers around 55-62 fps at count 27. (I get the exact same performance figures with textures disabled) ``` ./gears Low: 731 FPS High: 885 FPS Average: around 835 ``` ``` ./helloworld Low: 1178 FPS High: 1530 FPS Average: around 1380 FPS ``` ``` ./texture Low: 476 FPS High: 547 FPS Average: around 510 FPS ``` #### With NO_DRAW_COLOR enabled, otherwise the same ``` ./model -m monkey3.obj -count 24 ``` Raising the count above 25 causes the count to unreliably stay above 50 FPS and never reach 60. ``` ./texture Low: 467 FPS High: 592 FPS Average: around 570 FPS ``` Surprising that it actually runs faster ``` ./gears Low: 804 FPS High: 917 FPS Average: around 842 FPS ``` _______________________________________________________________________________________ # Here is the old description of TinyGL, saved for historical/attribution purposes: ### I do not endorse or promote its contents, they are here for attribution only. ### General Description: -------------------- TinyGL is intended to be a very small implementation of a subset of OpenGL* for embedded systems or games. It is a software only implementation. Only the main OpenGL calls are implemented. All the calls I considered not important are simply *not implemented*. The main strength of TinyGL is that it is fast and simple because it has not to be exactly compatible with OpenGL. In particular, the texture mapping and the geometrical transformations are very fast. The main features of TinyGL are: - Header compatible with OpenGL (the headers are adapted from the very good Mesa by Brian Paul et al.) - Zlib-like licence for easy integration in commercial designs (read the LICENCE file). - Subset of GLX for easy testing with X Window. - GLX like API (NGLX) to use it with NanoX in MicroWindows/NanoX. - Subset of BGLView under BeOS. - OpenGL like lightening. - Complete OpenGL selection mode handling for object picking. - 16 bit Z buffer. 16/24/32 bit RGB rendering. High speed dithering to paletted 8 bits if needed. High speed conversion to 24 bit packed pixel or 32 bit RGBA if needed. - Fast Gouraud shadding optimized for 16 bit RGB. - Fast texture mapping capabilities, with perspective correction and texture objects. - 32 bit float only arithmetic. - Very small: compiled code size of about 40 kB on x86. The file src/zfeatures.h can be used to remove some unused features from TinyGL. - C sources for GCC on 32/64 bit architectures. It has been tested succesfully on x86-Linux and sparc-Solaris. Examples: --------- I took three simple examples from the Mesa package to test the main functions of TinyGL. You can link them to either TinyGL, Mesa or any other OpenGL/GLX implementation. You can also compile them with Microwindows. - texobj illustrates the use of texture objects. Its shows the speed of TinyGL in this case. - glutmech comes from the GLUT packages. It is much bigger and slower because it uses the lightening. I have just included some GLU functions and suppressed the GLUT related code to make it work. It shows the display list handling of TinyGL in particular. You can look at the source code to learn the keys to move the robot. The key 't' toggles between shaded rendering and wire frame. - You can download and compile the VReng project to see that TinyGL has been successfully used in a big project (http://www-inf.enst.fr/vreng). Architecture: ------------- TinyGL is made up four main modules: - Mathematical routines (zmath). - OpenGL-like emulation (zgl). - Z buffer and rasterisation (zbuffer). - GLX interface (zglx). To use TinyGL in an embedded system, you should look at the GLX layer and modify it to suit your need. Adding a more user friendly developper layer (as in Mesa) may be useful. Notes - limitations: -------------------- - See the file 'LIMITATIONS' to see the current functions supported by the API. - The multithreading could be easily implemented since no global state is maintainted. The library gets the current context with a function which can be modified. - The lightening is not very fast. I supposed that in most games the lightening is computed by the 3D engine. - Some changes are needed for 64 bit pointers for the handling of arrays of float with the GLParam union. - List sharing is partialy supported in the source, but not by the current TinyGLX implementation (is it really useful ?). - No user clipping planes are supported. - No color index mode (no longer useful !) - The mipmapping is not implemented. - The perspecture correction in the mapping code does not use W but 1/Z. In any 'normal scene' it should work. - The resizing of the viewport in TinyGLX ensures that the width and the height are multiples of 4. This is not optimal because some pixels of the window may not be refreshed. Why ? ----- TinyGL was developped as a student project for a Virtual Reality network system called VReng (see the VReng home page at http://www-inf.enst.fr/vreng). At that time (January 1997), my initial project was to write my own 3D rasterizer based on some old sources I wrote. But I realized that it would be better to use OpenGL to work on any platform. My problem was that I wanted to use texture mapping which was (and is still) quite slower on many software OpenGL implementation. I could have modified Mesa to suit my needs, but I really wanted to use my old sources for that project. I finally decided to use the same syntax as OpenGL but with my own libraries, thinking that later it could ease the porting of VReng to OpenGL. Now VReng is at last compatible with OpenGL, and I managed to patch TinyGL so that VReng can still work with it without any modifications. Since TinyGL may be useful for some people, especially in the world of embedded designs, I decided to release it 'as is', otherwise, it would have been lost on my hard disk ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * OpenGL(R) is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fabrice Bellard.