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Pie Docs

This is the official documentation for Pie, the cross-platform graphics toolkit. Create high-performance GPU accelerated graphics easily, with a safe, low-cost, C#-friendly abstraction around the low-level APIs.

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Features

Graphics

Pie's API has been designed to be safe and easy to use. Unlike other libraries, Pie has been designed from the ground up in C#, so you'll feel right at home using it.

Pie currently supports the following backends:

  • Direct3D 11
  • OpenGL 4.3
  • OpenGL ES 3.0

First-class debugging

Graphics debugging can be tough. Pie features an optional debug layer that can provide detailed debug logging, API usage validation, statistics, and memory leak checking.

Windowing

Pie features a cross-platform windowing library, powered by SDL. This is a do-it-yourself abstraction, it creates the window & graphics device for you, and you are expected to create the render loop yourself.

Audio

Pie features a cross-platform audio library, using mixr as its backend. On top of mixr's built-in features, Pie.Audio also features an SDL-powered audio device, so you can immediately start playing audio.

Text

Cross-platform FreeType bindings, complete with a simple abstraction layer, to make text rendering easy.

Shader Compiler

Used by Pie itself, the shader compiler provides a simple way to transpile shaders. Compile GLSL or HLSL to Spir-V, and transpile Spir-V to various supported shading languages, such as GLSL or HLSL. This library is used by Pie to provide cross-platform shader support.

Shaderc

Pie provides low & high level bindings for shaderc.

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