SaM3d!

A cross-platform library for 3d applications
based on OpenGL and SDL

Goals

provide a set of easy-to-use, platform independant functions for 3d applications (mostly games & demos) ;
solve a few remaining portability issues (SDL and OpenGL take care of 99% of portability problems, but there are still a few details...).

SaM3d! is in very early stages, so most of the features are planned.

In the current version :

on-the-fly display mode (fullscreen, windowed) change ;
render on multiple viewports ;
rendering loop with input handling and time-based movement ;
texture manager with predefined texture classes (textures read from file, lightmap) ;
file I/O based on SDL_RWops (can read files from a ZIP archive) ;
performance counter (fps, triangles per frame...) ;
math library (classes for vectors, quaternions, matrices, frustum) ;
console and logging system.

Under development :

SaM3d! applications compile and run under:

You can download the sources for SaM3d! from the CVS repository on SourceForge using the following commands (Unix environment).

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/sam3d login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/sam3d co SaM3d

If you are using Windows(TM) you really should try TortoiseCVS.

For those who really do not want to use CVS, you can download a snapshot (sep 3 2003): tgz, zip.

I would like to thank :

Sam Lantinga for the incredible SDL library ;
Fabio "Snowdruid" Franchello who wrote the "NeHeGL SDL codebase" I used to start with OpenGL ;
Jeff Molofee for his fantastic site about OpenGL ;
did I forget anyone ?