A collection of relatively small utility libraries written in C11 that can be used as the foundation for various applications, though probably more oriented towards games. Includes APIs for dealing with images, graphics, models, IO and much more.
Originally created around 2014/2015 as a support library for another game, it's since found a new life supporting ApeTech and other projects. Do let me know if you find any use of it, and I'll give you a shoutout!
Keep in mind this is likely far from the most efficient library in the world. If performance is a big priority for you, then I would highly recommend looking elsewhere!
Support levels for formats indicate the following.
- A: Very good, perfect or near perfect support.
- B: Probably good enough, but not perfect.
- C: Experimental. You'll likely encounter issues.
- F: Non-functional / broken.
- Support for multiple compression algorithms
- PCMD command-line interface, that exposes features the library has to offer
- Plugin interface for supporting new image and package formats
- C/C Math Library (Vector, Matrix, Quaternion)
- Also provides optional OpenGL-style matrix functions
- Console Interface, with logging, variables and commands
- File I/O is endianness agnostic
- Support for mounting packages; I/O requests will automatically be mapped to any mounted packages before falling back to the local FS
- Image API provides manipulation functions
| Format | Usages | Support Level | Mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| PNG | A | R/W | |
| BMP | A | R/W | |
| GIF | A | R | |
| TGA | A | R/W | |
| PSD | A | R | |
| JPG | A | R/W | |
| HDR | A | R | |
| DDS | C | R | |
| QOI | A | R/W | |
| 3dfx 3DF | C | R | |
| Monolith DTX | LithTech (game engine) | C | R |
| Ritual FTX | A | R | |
| Ritual SWL | B | R | |
| Sony TIM | B | R | |
| 3D Realms TEX | A | R | |
| Angel Studios TEX | Angel Engine (game engine) | C | R |
| Red Storm RSB | C | R | |
| Valve VTX | Source Engine (game engine) | C | R |
| Core HGT | Herdy Gerdy | B | R |
| Format | Usages | Support Level | Mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZIP | General package container format | B | R |
| MAD/MTD | Hogs of War, Actua Soccer | A | R |
| VPP | Red Faction, Red Faction II, Summoner, The Punisher | A | R |
| WAD | Doom, Quake, Half-Life | A | R |
| PAK | Quake and Half-Life | A | R |
| Fresh BIN | FreshEngine | B | R |
| GRP | Duke Nukem 3D | A | R |
| VPK | Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines / Troika | B | R |
| WFear INU | White Fear (Cancelled) | A | R |
| OPK | Outcast | B | R |
| Amuze AHF | Headhunter | B | R |
| Amuze AFS | Headhunter | B | R |
| Angel DAT | Angel Studios | B | R |
| CLU | Herdy Gerdy | B | R |
| IBF | Iron Storm | Extra | R |
| HAL | Mortyr | A | R |
| RID/RIM | Eradicator | A | R |
| FTactics PAK | Future Tactics | B | R |
| Kri WAD | The Mark of Kri | B | R |
| AITD PAK | Alone in the Dark | Extra | R |
| Ice3D DAT | BioShock 3D | B | R |
| FF | Outwars | Extra | R |
| Blitz DAT | Titan A.E., Chicken Run | Extra | R |
| SWAT WAD | Okre Engine (SWAT Global Strike Team) | C | R |
| Haven DAT | Haven Call of the King | C | R |
| VSR | Sentient | C | R |
| ALL | The Last Job | B | R |
- Provides a relatively simple abstraction layer
- Camera implementation, supporting Isometric, orthographic and perspective views
- Easy-to-use rendering API
- Supported APIs via plugins, aka 'drivers'
- OpenGL 3.3
Model API supports static and animated per-vertex/skeletal formats. This hasn't received as much attention so support is very limited (.
| Format | Usages | Support Level | Mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Realms' CPJ | Duke Nukem Forever 2001 | C | R |
| Cyclone MDL | C | R | |
| Triton HDV | Into the Shadows | C | R |
| Unreal 3D | Unreal Engine 1 2 | F | R |
| Valve SMD | Source Engine | C | W |
- hei-cmd, a command-line utility for using features of Hei
- ApeTech, a 3D game engine written in C
- OpenHoW, a reimplementation of Hogs of War
The project is licensed under MIT.
Additional licences for libraries used by plcore can be found here.