Everyone is welcome to contribute to bgfx by submitting bug reports, testing on different platforms, writing examples (see ideas), improving documentation, profiling and optimizing, etc.

Minimal example without bgfx’s example harness Examples 00-helloworld 01-cubes 02-metaballs 03-raymarch 04-mesh 05-instancing 06-bump 07-callback 08-update 09-hdr 10-font 11-fontsdf 12-lod 13 …

API Reference Note If you’re just getting started with bgfx, you might get more out of these simple walkthroughs for how to use bgfx’s API: Hello, bgfx! (tutorial) bgfx-minimal-example (repo on GitHub) …

Examples Most of the examples require shader/texture/mesh data to be loaded. When running examples your current directory should be examples/runtime.

Tools Geometry Compiler (geometryc) Converts Wavefront .obj, or glTF 2.0 mesh files to a format which is optimized for use with bgfx. Usage:

Internals Sort-based draw call bucketing bgfx uses sort-based draw call bucketing. This means that the order in which draw calls are submitted does not necessarily match the order in which they are …

Build bgfx uses GENie - Project generator tool to generate project files for various platforms. Binaries of GENie for Linux, macOS, and Windows are included in the bx repository. GENie can generate a …

Jan 12, 2026 · Introduction What is bgfx? bgfx is cross-platform / API agnostic - render anywhere, effortlessly - rendering library. It occupies space just like WebGPU native, ANGLE or similar …

IDL — Interface Definition Language bgfx uses a custom Interface Definition Language (IDL) to define its entire public API in a single source-of-truth file: scripts/bgfx.idl. From this file, code generators …

Apr 8, 2019 · My mission with bgfx is to empower game developers by providing a cross-platform, graphics API-agnostic rendering library that simplifies porting games across diverse platforms, …