All APIs by Level

APIs at the top of this page are the highest-level, providing the most functionality and requiring the most dependencies.

Each section builds on the next lower one, with the most basic standalone routines at the bottom.

See also the complete list of Functions and Classes.

Application Framework (GLG3D.h, GLG3D.lib)

High-level building blocks for creating applications.

• 3D Models and Data     ArticulatedModel, BSPMap, debugDraw, DirectionHistogram, GFont, SuperSurface, GLight, GMaterial, IFSModel, Lighting, Shape, Material, MD2Model, MD3Model, Surface, Surface2D, Sky, SkyParameters, Tri, TriTree, VideoInput, VideoOutput

• User Interface    BackgroundWidget, CameraControlWindow, CarbonWindow, DeveloperWindow, GApp, GConsole, GEvent, GEventType, GKey, GuiContainer, GuiControl, GuiControl::Callback, GuiText, GuiCheckBox, GuiButton, GuiDropDownList, GuiFunctionBox, GuiLabel, GuiMenu, GuiNumberBox, GuiPane, GuiRadioButton, GuiTheme, GuiSlider, GuiTextBox, GuiTextureBox, GuiWindow, OSWindow, Manipulator, FirstPersonManipulator, screenPrintf, FileDialog, SDLWindow, ThirdPersonManipulator, UprightSplineManipulator, UserInput, Widget, WidgetManager, Win32Window, X11Window

• Effects     BumpMap, beginMarkShadows, drawFeatureEdges, endMarkShadows, GaussianBlur, GBuffer, markShadows, ShadowMap, SuperShader, SuperShader::Pass, SuperShader::NonShadowedPass, SuperShader::ExtraLightPass, SuperShader::ShadowedPass, SuperBSDF, ToneMap, Film

Hardware Rendering (GLG3D.h, GLG3D.lib)

An easy-to-use wrapper for OpenGL and a platform-independent windowing system.

• OpenGL Abstraction     Draw, Framebuffer, GLCaps, glClipToBox, glDisableAllClipping, glDisableAllTextures, glToScreen, Milestone, Profiler, Renderbuffer, RenderDevice, Texture, VertexRange, VertexBuffer, Shader
  
  Backwards compatability to 6.xx: PixelProgram, VertexProgram, VertexAndPixelShader,

• Extensions to base OpenGL     debugAssertGLOk, DECLARE_GLFORMAT, glLoadMatrix, glLoadInvMatrix, GLCaps, glColor, glMultInvMatrix, glMutlMatrix, glMutliTexCoord, glNormal, glTexCoord, glToScreen, glVertex, sizeOfGlFormate, glFormatOf, glGetProcAddress, getOpenGlState, glGetInteger, glGetBoolean, glGetDouble, glGetFloat, glGetMatrix, GLenumToString

3D Math and Systems (G3D.h, G3D.lib)

Core data structures and system functionality.

• Geometry     AABox, AABox2D (Rect2D), Box, Box2D, Capsule, UprightFrame, UprightSpline, CollisionDetection, Color1, Color1uint8, Color3, Color3uint8, Color4, Color4uint8, Cone, ConvexPolygon, ConvexPolygon2D, ConvexPolyhedron, CoordinateFrame, CFrame (CoordinateFrame), Cylinder, GameTime, GCamera, Intersect, PhysicsFrame, Line, LineSegment, LineSegment2D, Matrix, Matrix2, Matrix3, Matrix4, MeshAlg, MeshAlg::Geometry, MeshBuilder, Quat, Plane, Ray, RealTime, Rect2D, Sphere, Spline, Triangle, tesselateComplexPolygon, toSeconds, Vector2, Vector2int16, Vector3, Vector3int16, Vector3int32, Vector4, Vector4int8, Welder

• Integer math     ceilPow2, highestBit, iAbs, iCeil, iClamp, iWrap, iFloor, iMax, iMin, isPow2, isOdd, isEven, iSign, iRound, uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64, uint128, int8, in16, int32, int64, pow2

• Floating point     abs, aCos, aSin, aTan, aTan2, clamp, cyclicCatumullRomSpline, float32, float64, fuzzyEq, fuzzyNe, fuzzyGt, fuzzyGe, fuzzyLt, fuzzyLe, fuzzyEpsilon, lerp, linearSpline, log2, sign, rsq, min, max, Random, PrecomputedRandom, square, sync, sumSquares, distance, toRadians, toDegrees, isNaN, isFinite, inf, nan, wrap, pi, halfPi, twoPi, rsqrt,

• String     beginsWith, endsWith, format, isSlash, isWhiteSpace, isDigit, isNewline, isLetter, isQuote, license, parseCommaSeparated, vformat, wordWrap, stringCompare, stringptrCompare, stringSplit, stringJoin, toUpper, toLower, NEWLINE, trimWhitespace, STR

• Data structures     Any, KDTree, Array, Pointer, PointKDTree, Queue, Set, SmallArray, Table, ReferenceCountedObject, ReferenceCounterPointer, WeakReferenceCounterPointer, WeakCache

• Images     GImage, GImage::Error, G3D::Image1, Image1uint8, Image3, Image3uint8, Image4, Image4uint8, ImageFormat, Map2D, gaussian1D, WrapMode

• Debug     alwaysAssertM, debugAssert, debugAssertM, describeSystem, isValidHeapPointer, isValidPointer setConsolePrintHook, consolePrintHook, consolePrint, consolePrintf, debugPrint, debugPrintf, logPrintf, Log, setAssertionHook, setFailureHook

• Files     BinaryInput, BinaryOutput, copyFile, createDirectory, createTempFile, deserialize, filenameContainsWildcards, fileExists, fileLength, filenameBase, filenameBaseExt, filenameExt, filenamePath, fileIsNewer, generateFilenameBase, getFiles, getDirs, isDirectory, isZipfile parseFilename, ParseError, readWholeFile, serialize, resolveFilename, TextInput, TextOutput, Token, TextInput::WrongTokenType, writeWholeFile, zipfileExists, zipClose, zipRead

• Network     Discovery::Client, Discovery::Server, Discovery::Settings, LightweightConduit, NetAddress, NetListener, NetworkDevice, ReliableConduit

• Time, Memory, and Threads     AlignedMemoryManager, AreaMemoryManager, AtomicInt32, BinaryFormat, byteSize, binaryFormatOf, Crypto, CRTMemoryManager, G3DEndian, GMutex, GThread, GUniqueID, MemoryManager, msgBox, pathConcat, prompt, Spinlock, Stopwatch, System, ThreadSet

• Utilities and Constants     MirrorQuality, PrimitiveType, RefractionQuality, G3D_DECLARE_ENUM_CLASS_METHODS(), G3D_DECLARE_ENUM_CLASS_HASHCODE()

• Units (in units namespace)    nanometers, micrometers, millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers, inches, feet, yards, miles, radians, degrees, nanoseconds, milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, years

• Platform Abstraction Macros     G3D_WIN32, G3D_OSX, G3D_LINUX, G3D_FREEBSD, PRAGMA(), G3D_BEGIN_PACKED_CLASS(), G3D_END_PACKED_CLASS(), G3D_CHECK_PRINTF_METHOD_ARGS(), G3D_CHECK_VPRINTF_METHOD_ARGS(), G3D_CHECK_PRINTF_ARGS(), G3D_CHECK_VPRINTF_ARGS(), G3D_START_AT_MAIN(), G3D_DEPRECATED(), G3D_DEBUG()