Advantages of SFML

What is SFML?

Simply put SFML is a multimedia library for C++ with bindings available for other languages such as Python, Rust, etc. It does not just let you use hardware-accelerated 2D Graphics with OpenGL but also has a variety of methods related to different types of media such as fonts, audio, etc. It stands for Simple and Fast Multimedia Library. Well, how simple is it? So simple that you could get a snake game running in less than 15 minutes. How fast is it? It’s so fast that you’d be running the application at several thousand frames per second....

Where is SFML used?

SFML is used heavily in making games and even game engines. And even though SFML doesn’t support 3D rendering yet it is used for context creation. Since OpenGL can’t create a window, 3D graphics programmers use SFML (at least most of the time) for the task....

Setting up Environment

Before we program in SFML we must set up the environment! Hopefully, it’s not a much of a headache especially not if you are in Linux! Debian Linux users (and any other flavour of Linux with apt/apt-get) can install SFML with the following command:-...

Getting started with SFML

Here’s the most basic SFML application you’ll ever find:...

Rendering Simple Shapes with SFML

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Advantages of SFML

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Disadvantages of SFML

SFML is not all about window-creation (even though many people use it only for that). It can be used to render hardware-accelerated graphics (including some basic as well as complex shapes). In this example, we’ll constrain ourselves to draw a basic shape (a circle):-...

Further Reading

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References

The advantages of SFML over other multimedia libraries are:-...