ClanLib features
Features at a glance
ClanLib has support for the following:
- Linux, Windows and BeOS.
- Basic 2D display.
Includes primitive drawing (pixels, lines and rects) and
images drawing (surfaces/sprites).
- Basic Sound support.
ClanLib can play static samples and streamed
samples, cd audio support, playback session management...
- Basic Input support.
Keyboard, mouse and joysticks.
- Basic Network support.
ClanLib provides a easy-to-use, but powerful
interface to do game networking.
- Basic 3D support.
ClanLib fully integrates with OpenGL. Use GL for 3D,
and ClanLib for the rest...
- Resource management.
Resources are an integrated part of ClanLib.
Everything can be reloaded via resources - a nice way to do easy theme
support, and in general seperate the code from the gfx/sound/...
config.
- Image loading.
With the use of datafiles you can load any gfx file
format ImageMagick supports - even if IM is not installed on the target
system! (IM has to be installed on the system the datafile is built on).
- MPEG video playback.
- Font support.
- Lua scripting support.
- A GUI framework. Still under development.
Targets supported
- DirectX.
- Svgalib.
- X11.
- OpenPTC.
- GGI.
- FBdev.
- OpenGL.
The internal architecture of ClanLib makes it easy to extend the above
list.
Providers available
- PCX surface provider.
- Targa surface provider.
- PNG surface provider.
- ImageMagick surface provider. Supports a dozen of image formats,
including BMP, Jpeg, PNG, Targa, PCX, Tiff and PostScript.
- FLI/FLC animation surface provider.
- Wave sound providers.
- MikMod sound provider.
- Lots of input converters (button -> axis, hat->axis, axis->button, etc). Ok, not really a provider, but anyways.
The design of the ClanLib Game SDK makes it very easy to write your own
Surface providers, StaticSound providers, StreamedSound providers,
input converters and NetChannels. We expect the list of utility classes to
increase greatly in the future.
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