PLIB

PLIB

Infobox Software
name=PLIB


caption=official logo
developer= Steve Baker
maintainer=OpenSource community
latest_release_version=1.8.4
latest_release_date=Jan, 2005
operating_system=Cross-platform
genre=API
license=LGPL
website= [http://plib.sf.net plib.sf.net]

PLIB is a suite of Open Source portable computer game libraries, originally written by Steve Baker in 1997 and licensed under the LGPL.

PLIB includes sound effects, music, a complete 3D engine, font rendering, a simple windowing library, a game scripting language, a GUI, networking, 3D math library and a collection of utility functions. All are 100% portable across nearly all modern computing platforms. Each library component is fairly independent of the others to encourage replacement with other libraries like SDL or FLTK.

PLIB has been used by many projects (not all games, and not all open source), but has not kept pace with technical developments that happened after its original conception (e.g., shader technology), so it is currently outdated and rarely used for new projects. While nowadays there are better portable and Open Source replacements for all of its components are available, a similar comprehensive suite of libraries is still missing.

ee also

*Allegro
*OpenML
*Simple DirectMedia Layer
*DirectX
*OpenGL
*ClanLib

External links

* [http://plib.sourceforge.net/ PLIB website]


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