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2D Graphics3D Graphics3D Game EnginesArtificial IntelligenceAudio (Sound & Music)Collision DetectionCompressionEncryptionFont HandlingGeneral PurposeGraphical User InterfacesImage HandlingMathematicsModel Handling & 3D Character AnimationMultimedia/Game LibrariesNetworkingPhysicsOpenGLOpenGL Extension HandlingScripting LanguagesSDL - Simple DirectMedia LayerXMLUnsorted 2D Graphics CDX Library www.cdxlib.com Description: CDX is a free Game Development Kit which is comprised of a set of C++ wrapper classes for writing Windows games. It is built on top of Microsoft Windows and DirectX technology and offers simple to use C++ wrappers for all aspects of game development. This includes things like sprites, tiles, scollable maps, alpha blending and even 3D primitives (using Direct3D). CDX takes care of the low-level details of using DirectX, providing you with an easy to use toolkit for implementing your own games using simple yet flexible C++ classes. With only a handful of classes, CDX is quick to learn and easy to use. Added: October 31, 2004 Eclipse 2D Game Engine eclipseeng.sourceforge.net Author:JGH License: LGPL Added: October 31, 2004 Golden T Game Engine goldenstudios.or.id/products/GTGE/ Description: Golden T Game Engine (GTGE) is an advanced cross-platform game programming library written in Java language. GTGE library provides a complete routines for making 2D game, from low level routines such as hardware accelerated 2D graphics, mouse and keyboard input, audio, timing, to game specific routines such as sprite, background, collision detection. Author:Paulus Tuerah License: free, but requires credits Added: March 28, 2005 hxRender mavweb.mnsu.edu/longaj/hxrender/ Author:Joel Longanecker License: zlib Platforms: Windows, GNU/Linux, MacOS X Added: October 31, 2004 Haaf's Game Engine - Hardware accelerated 2D game engine hge.relishgames.com License: Free for non-commercial use Platforms: Windows Added: October 31, 2004 3D Graphics Crystal Space 3D www.crystalspace3d.org Description: Crystal Space is a free and portable 3D Game Development Kit written in C++. License: LGPL Platforms: GNU/Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOS X Added: October 31, 2004 Delta3D delta3d.org Description: A well-supported and fully-funded open source project, Delta3D is a full-function game engine appropriate for a wide variety of modeling & simulation applications. License: LGPL Added: March 28, 2005 Demeter Terrain Engine demeter.sourceforge.net Description: Demeter is a cross-platform C++ library that renders 3D terrains using OpenGL. Demeter is designed for fast performance and good visual quality and makes use of advanced techniques such as dynamic tessellation (adaptive mesh) to render vast landscapes in real-time, without the need for high-end hardware. It is written as a stand-alone component that can be easily integrated into any kind of application. Author:Clay Fowler License: LGPL Added: October 31, 2004 ExNihilo www.ploksoftware.org Description: ExNihilo engine is new technology based on multi manager system. Added: October 31, 2004 G3D C++ Library g3d-cpp.sourceforge.net Description: G3D is a commercial-grade 3D Engine available as Open Source. It is used in games, tech demos, research papers, military simulators, and university courses. It can support real-time rendering, off-line rendering, back-end game server management of 3D worlds, and use of graphics hardware for general purpose computing. Authors:Morgan McGuire, Peter Sibley, Ben Landon, Peter Hunt, Giulio Mainardi, Gabe Taubman License: BSD Platforms: Windows, GNU/Linux, MacOS X Added: October 31, 2004 Genesis3D Engine www.genesis3d.com Description: Genesis3D is a real-time 3D rendering environment for all of your real-time 3D needs. Added: October 31, 2004 Horde3D - Next-Generation Graphics Engine www.nextgen-engine.net Description: Horde3D is a small open source 3D rendering engine. It is written in an effort to create a graphics engine that offers the stunning visual effects expected in next-generation games while at the same time being as lightweight and conceptually clean as possible. Horde3D has a simple and intuitive interface accessible from virtually any programming language and is particularly suitable for rendering large crowds of animated characters in next-generation quality. Author:Nicolas Schulz License: LGPL Added: October 6, 2007 Irrlicht Engine irrlicht.sourceforge.net Description: The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for .NET languages. It is completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderer, and has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3d engines. Author:Nikolaus Gebhardt License: zlib Platforms: Windows, GNU/Linux Added: October 31, 2004 Jet3D www.jet3d.com Added: October 31, 2004 Lightfeather lf.mmdevel.de/news.php Description: Lightfeather (formerly Irrlicht NX++) is an open source 3D Engine for MacOSX, Windows and Linux. License: zlib/libpng Platforms: Windows, GNU/Linux, MacOS X Added: October 31, 2004 Nebula Device 2 nebuladevice.cubik.org Description: Nebula Device is an open source realtime 3D game/visualization engine, written in C++. Version 2 is a modern rendering engine making full use of shaders. Platforms: Windows, GNU/Linux, MacOS X Added: October 31, 2004 NVSG SDK developer.nvidia.com/object/nvsg_home.html Description: The nVIDIA Scene Graph Software Development Kit is an object-oriented programming library for creating scene graph-based applications. Author:nVIDIA Added: October 31, 2004 Ogre3D www.ogre3d.org Description: Ogre (Object-oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is an open-source graphics rendering engine. License: LGPL Added: October 31, 2004 OpenSceneGraph www.openscenegraph.org Description: The OpenSceneGraph is an open source high peformance 3D graphics toolkit, used by application developers in fields such as visual simulation, games, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modelling. License: OpenSceneGraph Public License (based on the LGPL) Platforms: Windows, MacOS X, GNU/Linux, IRIX, Solaris, FreeBSD Added: October 31, 2004 SGL - A 3D Scene Graph Library sgl.sourceforge.net Description: SGL consists of a set of cross-platform C++ libraries, built on top of OpenGL, which implements 3D scene graph functionality, some simple 3D model loaders, and some miscellaneous utilities. Added: October 31, 2004 SxDL Game Development Toolkit sxdl.sourceforge.net Description: SxDL is a powerful and an easy to use 2D and 3D Game Development Framework for MS Windows and MS DirectX. License: GPL Added: October 31, 2004 XEngine xengine.sourceforge.net Description: XEngine is a platform- and rendering-API-independent 3D engine for real-time visualization with support for programmable graphics pipeline architectures and is implemented in C++. The engine aims at flexible support for many of the shading languages available today, so that existing shaders can easily be re-used. This includes current assembler-like languages as well as high-level languages, such as NVIDIA's Cg. In addition, integration of new shading languages should be easily possible with the engine's design. Author:Martin Ecker License: zlib Added: October 31, 2004 Yake www.yake.org Description: Yake is a small, flexible, cross-platform game engine/application framework. License: LGPL Added: March 28, 2005 3D Game Engines Apocalyx apocalyx.sourceforge.net Description: Apocalyx is an OpenGL 3D engine. The current implementation supports Win98 (or higher) and accelerated 3D graphic cards with OpenGL drivers. License: GPL Platforms: Windows Added: October 31, 2004 Cube Engine www.cubeengine.com Description: Cube is an open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail on most machines. Uses OpenGL & SDL. Author:Wouter van Oortmerssen License: zlib Added: October 31, 2004 Fly3D www.fly3d.com.br Description: Fly3D is a plugin-oriented, OpenGL-based 3D games engine and development kit. It offers rendering, input, sound and scene control methods for game programmers to build their game software, as well as a variety of tools for game developers to add and modify content to game projects. Authors:Alan Watt, Fabio Policarpo License: GPL Added: October 31, 2004 NeoEngine www.neoengine.org Description: NeoEngine is an Open Source 3D game engine License: MPL Added: October 31, 2004 Panda3D panda3d.etc.cmu.edu Description: The free open source game and simulation engine, developed by Disney and maintained by Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center. License: Free Added: March 28, 2005 QuakeForge www.quakeforge.net Description: QuakeForge is a 3D graphics game engine based on id Software's legendary Quake and QuakeWorld game engine. License: GPL Added: October 31, 2004 Tenebrae tenebrae.sourceforge.net Description: Tenebrae is a modification of the quake source that adds stencil shadows and per pixel lights to quake. Added: October 31, 2004 Artificial Intelligence FEAR - Foundations for Genuine Game AI fear.sourceforge.net License: GPL Added: September 13, 2007 MicroPather www.grinninglizard.com/MicroPather/ Description: Pathing Made Simple. MicroPather is a path finder and A* solver (astar or a-star) written in platform independent C++ that can be easily integrated into existing code. MicroPather focuses on being a path finding engine for video games but is a generic A* solver. Author:Lee Thomason License: zlib Added: September 13, 2007 OpenSteer opensteer.sourceforge.net Description: OpenSteer is a C++ library to help build steering behaviors for autonomous characters in games and animation. OpenSteer provides an app which displays predefined demos of steering behaviors. You can prototype, visualize and debug your own as a plug-in. Author:Craig Reynolds License: MIT Platforms: Windows, All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), Linux, MacOS X Added: October 31, 2004 PathLib - Game Pathfinding Library pathlib.hildebrand.cz/pathlib.html Description: The Pathlib is an independent simple library (written in C) for searching optimal paths for objects in map. The library solves generally tasks like finding optimal-cost path in map, timing objects and their movement in map, simple collision detection and solving of deadlocks. License: unknown Added: September 13, 2007 Audio (Sound & Music) Audiere audiere.sourceforge.net Description: Audiere is a high-level audio API. It can play Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, uncompressed WAV, AIFF, MOD, S3M, XM, and IT files. For audio output, Audiere supports DirectSound or WinMM in Windows, OSS on Linux and Cygwin, and SGI AL on IRIX. Author:Chad Austin License: LGPL Platforms: Windows, Linux-i386, Cygwin, IRIX Added: October 31, 2004 BASS Audio Library www.un4seen.com Description: BASS is an audio library for use in Windows and Mac OSX software. Its purpose is to provide developers with the most powerful and efficient (yet easy to use), sample, stream (MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, WAV, AIFF, custom generated, and more via add-ons), MOD music (XM, IT, S3M, MOD, MTM, UMX), MO3 music (MP3/OGG compressed MODs), and recording functions. All in a tiny DLL, under 100KB* in size. Author:un4seen development License: Free for non-commercial use Platforms: Windows, MacOS X Added: October 31, 2004 FMOD Sound System www.fmod.org Description: FMOD is a cross platform audio library to let you easily implement the latest audio technologies into your title. Authors:Firelight Technologies Pty, Ltd License: Free for non-commercial use Platforms: Windows, Linux, MacOS X, PS2, Xbox, GC... Added: October 31, 2004 FreeSL - Free Sound Library www.lukasheise.com/web_res/freesl.html Description: FreeSL (Free Sound Library) is a OpenAL wrapper. It also includes the EAX 2.0 library for realistic audio environment simulations plus occlusion and obstruction. Author:Lukas Heise License: Free Added: October 6, 2007 Hekkus Sound System www.shlzero.com Description: Hekkus Sound System is a small and fast sound engine for WinCE/Win32/Symbian and .NET application, expecially designed for games. Author:Thomas Maniero License: Donate-Ware Platforms: Win32, WinCE, Symbian Added: October 31, 2004 irrKlang www.ambiera.com/irrklang/index.html Description: irrKlang is a cross platform audio library designed to be used in games, scientific simulations and similar. Author:Nikolaus Gebhardt License: irrKlang License Added: September 17, 2007 Libsndfile www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ Description: Libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound (such as MS Windows WAV and the Apple/SGI AIFF format) through one standard library interface. Author:Erik de Castro Lopo License: LGPL Platforms: Windows, Linux, MacOS X, Solaris, QNX Added: October 31, 2004 libMikMod mikmod.raphnet.net Description: Mikmod is a module player and library supporting many formats, including mod, s3m, it, and xm. Author:Raphaël Assénat License: LGPL Added: September 17, 2007 Ogg Vorbis www.vorbis.com Description: Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source. License: BSD-like Added: September 17, 2007 OpenAL www.openal.org Description: OpenAL is a cross-platform 3D audio API appropriate for use with gaming applications and many other types of audio applications. Platforms: Windows, Linux, MacOS X, UNIX, Xbox Added: October 31, 2004 Open Source Audio Library Project osalp.sourceforge.net Authors:Bruce Forsberg, Darrick Servis License: LGPL Platforms: Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD Added: October 31, 2004 PortAudio www.portaudio.com Description: PortAudio is a free, cross platform, open-source, audio I/O library. Authors:Ross Bencina, Phil Burk License: Free Platforms: Windows, MacOS X, Unix, SGI, BeOS Added: October 31, 2004 SDL_mixer www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/ Description: A sample multi-channel audio mixer library. Authors:Sam Lantinga, Stephane Peter, Ryan Gordon License: LGPL Platforms: Windows, MacOS X, Linux Added: October 31, 2004 SDL_sound icculus.org/SDL_sound/ Description: SDL_sound is a library that handles the decoding of several popular sound file formats, such as .WAV and .MP3. Author:Ryan C. Gordon License: LGPL Platforms: Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, BeOS Added: October 31, 2004 Collision Detection Bitmask people.ifm.liu.se/ulfek/bitmask/ Description: The Bitmask library provides C functions for 2D pixel-perfect collision detection. In addition to just collision detection the library can also calculate a point of intersection and the number of overlapping pixels in an efficient way. Author:Ulf Ekström License: LGPL Added: September 13, 2007 ColDet - Free 3D Collision Detection Library photoneffect.com/coldet/ Description: This library is an effort to provide a free collision detection library for generic polyhedra. Its purpose is mainly for 3D games where accurate detection is needed between two non-simple objects. Author:Amir Geva License: LGPL Platforms: Windows, Linux Added: October 31, 2004 FreeSOLID - Software Library for Interference Detection www.win.tue.nl/~gino/solid/index.html Description: SOLID is a library for collision detection of three-dimensional objects undergoing rigid motion and deformation. SOLID is designed to be used in interactive 3D graphics applications, and is especially suited for collision detection of objects and worlds described in VRML. Author:Gino van den Bergen License: LGPL Added: October 31, 2004 GImpact gimpact.sourceforge.net Description: GImpact is a software library with tools for geometry processing and collision detection, focused on solving most common problems on Virtual Reality development. Author:Francisco Leon License: LGPL Added: September 14, 2007 OPCODE - Optimized Collision Detection www.codercorner.com/Opcode.htm Description: OPCODE is a new small collision detection library. It is similar to popular packages such as SOLID or RAPID, but more memory-friendly, and often faster. Author:Pierre Terdiman License: Free Platforms: Windows, Linux Added: October 31, 2004 RAPID - Robust and Accurate Polygon Interference Detection www.cs.unc.edu/~geom/OBB/OBBT.html Description: RAPID is a robust and accurate polygon interference detection library for large environments composed of unstructured models. License: Free for non-commercial use Added: October 31, 2004 V-Collide - Collision Detection for Arbitrary Polygonal Objects www.cs.unc.edu/~geom/V_COLLIDE/ Description: V-Collide is a collision detection library for large environments. It is designed to operate on large numbers of polygonal objects. It makes no assumptions about input structure and works on arbitrary models, also known as "polygon soups". Added: September 14, 2007 Compression bzip2 www.bzip.org Description: bzip2 is a freely available, patent free (see below), high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression. Author:jseward License: BSD Platforms: Windows, UNIX, OS/2, Amiga Added: October 31, 2004 LZMA SDK www.7-zip.org/sdk.html Description: LZMA is the default and general compression method of 7z format in the 7-Zip program. LZMA provides a high compression ratio and very fast decompression, so it is very suitable for embedded applications. Author:Igor Pavlov License: LGPL Added: September 17, 2007 LZO www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/ Description: LZO is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. Author:Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer License: GPL Added: September 17, 2007 Minizip: Zip and UnZip additionnal library www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html Description: The Zlib library allows to deflate compressed files and to create gzip (.gz) files. Authors:Gilles Vollant, Eric Bischoff License: Free Added: October 31, 2004 szip www.compressconsult.com/szip/ Description: Szip is a freeware portable general purpose lossless compression program. It has a high speed and compression, but high memory demands (up to 20MB) too. Author:Michael Schindler Platforms: Windows, Linux, Unix, BeOS, MacOS X, OS/2 Added: October 31, 2004 unrarlib - Unique RAR File Library www.unrarlib.org Description: The UniquE RAR File Library is a platform-independent, small and fast static library for decompressing RAR files (RAR archives are created with WinRAR). Full RAR v2.0 file format support of all compression methods, including multimedia compression and encoding is available. Authors:Christian Scheurer, Johannes Winkelmann License: GPL Platforms: Windows, Linux, SunOS, WinCE, OS/2 Added: October 31, 2004 ZipArchive www.artpol-software.com/ZipArchive/ License: Licensing information Added: September 17, 2007 ZipStream/Bzip2Stream www.codeproject.com/vcpp/stl/zipstream.asp Description: Two zipped STL iostream implementations based on the library zlib and bzip2. This means that you can easily manipulate zipped streams like any other STL ostream/istream. Author:Jonathan de Halleux License: LGPL Platforms: Windows Added: October 31, 2004 Zlib - A Massively Spiffy Yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library www.zlib.net Authors:Jean-loup Gailly, Mark Adler License: zlib Platforms: Windows, Linux, Unix, MacOS X, and any other platform :) Added: October 31, 2004 zziplib zziplib.sourceforge.net Description: The zziplib library is intentionally lightweight, it offers the ability to easily extract data from files archived in a single zip file. Applications can bundle files into a single zip archive and access them. The implementation is based only on the (free) subset of compression with the zlib algorithm which is actually used by the zip/unzip tools. Author:Guido Draheim License: LGPL/MPL Platforms: Windows, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, MacOS X Added: October 31, 2004 Encryption Crypto++ Library www.eskimo.com/~weidai/cryptlib.html Description: A free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes. Currently the library consists of the following, some of which are other people's code, repackaged into classes. Author:Wei Dai License: Public Domain Platforms: Windows, UNIX, MacOS X, BeOS, Solaris Added: October 31, 2004 Cryptlib www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/ Description: cryptlib is a powerful security toolkit that allows even inexperienced crypto programmers to easily add encryption and authentication services to their software. License: Distributed under a dual license (free, open-source as a GPL-like license and closed-source use under a standard commercial license) Platforms: Windows, Linux, UNIX, MacOS X, BeOS, Added: October 31, 2004 LockBox sourceforge.net/projects/tplockbox/ Description: LockBox is a cross-platform toolkit for data encryption. It contains routines & components for use with Borland Delphi, C++Builder, & Kylix. It provides support for Blowfish, RSA, MD5, SHA-1, DES, triple- DES, Rijndael, & digital signing of messages. License: LGPL Platforms: Windows, Linux, UNIX Added: October 31, 2004 Font Handling FTGL homepages.paradise.net.nz/henryj/code/index.html Description: A font rendering library for OpenGL. Author:Henry Maddock License: LGPL Added: September 14, 2007 FreeType www.freetype.org Description: FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well. License: FreeType License/GPL Platforms: Cross-platform Added: January 8, 2006 GLFT_Font www.cs.rit.edu/~jpt2433/glftfont/ Description: GLFT_Font allows programmers to use fonts in their OpenGL applications with great ease on any platform for which both FreeType2 and OpenGL are available. Authors:James Turk, Marijn Haverbeke License: zlib Added: September 14, 2007 SFont www.linux-games.com/sfont/ License: GPL'ed Added: September 14, 2007 General Purpose boost - C++ libraries www.boost.org License: Boost license Added: September 14, 2007 Ceylan ceylan.sourceforge.net Description: Ceylan is a C++ open-source library which provides basic core functionalities, listed below, and a set of optional features. License: LGPL Added: October 16, 2007 Chattering Pixels www.chatteringpixels.com/products.php Description: Memory Manager, File I/O, Sorting, Timer... Added: September 17, 2007 File Logging Class www.paulnettle.com Description: This small class adds feature-rich file logging capabilities to any project. Logging hierarchy is maintained, so that recursion is represented in the log with identation, making it easy to follow code flow. Author:Paul Nettle License: Free Added: September 17, 2007 Garbage Collector www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ Description: The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new. It allows you to allocate memory basically as you normally would, without explicitly deallocating memory that is no longer useful. The collector automatically recycles memory when it determines that it can no longer be otherwise accessed. Author:Hans Boehm License: Free Added: September 17, 2007 Google-Sparsehash sourceforge.net/projects/goog-sparsehash Description: An extremely memory-efficient hash_map implementation. 2 bits/entry overhead! The SparseHash library contains several hash-map implementations, including implementations that optimize for space or speed. License: BSD Added: October 8, 2007 Image Debugger billbaxter.com/projects/imdebug/ Description: A utility for simple printf-style debugging of images in Win32 C/C++ applications. Author:William Baxter License: Free Added: September 17, 2007 IProf silverspaceship.com/src/iprof/ Description: A portable industrial-strength interactive profiler for C++ and C. License: Public domain Added: September 17, 2007 MMGR www.paulnettle.com Description: MMGR is an industrial-strength memory manager for almost any project. Author:Paul Nettle License: Free Added: September 17, 2007 OIS - Object-Oriented Input System www.wreckedgames.com/wiki/index.php/WreckedLibs:OIS License: zlib Added: September 14, 2007 PhysicsFS icculus.org/physfs/ Description: PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various archives. It is intended for use in video games, and the design was somewhat inspired by Quake 3's file subsystem. License: zlib Added: October 31, 2004 SDL_Config student.agh.edu.pl/~koshmaar/SDL_Config/ Description: Configuration file handling. Author:Hubert Rutkowski License: LGPL Added: September 14, 2007 SQLite www.sqlite.org Description: SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine. License: Public domain Added: September 17, 2007 Graphical User Interfaces CEGUI - Crazy Eddie's GUI System www.cegui.org.uk/modules/news/ Description: Crazy Eddie's GUI System is a free library providing windowing and widgets for graphics APIs / engines where such functionality is not natively available, or severely lacking. The library is object orientated, written in C++, and targeted at games developers who should be spending their time creating great games, not building GUI sub-systems! License: LGPL Platforms: Windows, Linux Added: October 31, 2004 LibUFO libufo.sourceforge.net Description: LibUFO is a C++ core library for forms respectively graphical user interfaces (GUI). It is mainly used as OpenGL GUI toolkit. License: LGPL Added: September 17, 2007 ParaGUI www.paragui.org Description: ParaGUI is a cross-platform high-level application framework and GUI (graphical user interface) library and is based on the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL). ParaGUI is targeted on crossplatform multimedia applications and embedded devices operating on framebuffer displays. License: LGPL Platforms: Cross-platform Added: October 31, 2004 SDL_Console sdlconsole.sourceforge.net Description: A drop down console that can be easily added to any SDL application. It is similar to Quake and other games consoles. A console gives you the ability to interact with your program in an easy way by executing predefined commands. You can also have more than one console at a time. Authors:Garret Banuk, Boris Lesner, Clemens Wacha License: LGPL Platforms: All Added: October 31, 2004 Image Handling AfterImage www.afterstep.org/afterimage/ Description: A generic image manipulation library. It was initially implemented to address AfterStep Window Manager's needs for image handling, but it evolved into extremely powerfull and flexible software, suitable for virtually any project that has needs for loading, manipulating, displaying images, as well as writing images in files. Author:Sasha Vasko Added: October 31, 2004 CImg - C++ Template Image Processing Library cimg.sourceforge.net Description: An open source C++ toolkit for image processing. It provides simple classes and functions to load, save, process and display images in your own C++ code. Author:David Tschumperle License: CeCiLL License Platforms: Unix/X11, Windows, MacOS X, FreeBSD Added: October 31, 2004 Corona corona.sourceforge.net Description: Corona is an image input/output library that can read, write, and manipulate image files in just a few lines of code. It can write PNG and TGA files, and read PNG, JPEG, PCX, BMP, TGA, and GIF. Corona was designed to be easy to use, and exports a straightforward C++ API. With just a few lines of C++, you can add image loading to your application. Author:Chad Austin License: zlib Platforms: Windows, Linux, IRIX Added: October 31, 2004 CxImage www.xdp.it/cximage.htm Description: A C++ class that can load, save, display, transform images in a very simple and fast way. With more than 200 functions, and with comprehensive working demos, CxImage offers all the tools to build simple image processing applications on a fast learning curve. Supported file formats are: BMP, GIF, ICO, CUR, JBG, JPG, JPC, JP2, PCX, PGX, PNG, PNM, RAS, TGA, TIF, WBMP, WMF. Author:Davide Pizzolato License: zlib Platforms: Windows, Linux Added: January 8, 2006 DevIL openil.sourceforge.net Description: A fully featured cross-platform image library. Authors:Denton Woods, Nicolas Weber, Meloni Dario License: LGPL Platforms: Windows, Linux, MacOS X Added: October 31, 2004 FreeImage freeimage.sourceforge.net Description: The library has been designed to be extremely simple in use and supports many formats. Authors:Herve Drolon, Floris van den Berg License: FreeImage Open Source Dual-Licence Platforms: Windows, Linux, MacOS X Added: October 31, 2004 GFL SDK perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/engfl.html Description: GFL SDK is a free library (used by XnView) for developers who would like to support graphics image formats easily. License: Free for non-commerical use Added: September 17, 2007 GTL - Game Texture Loader tgtl.sourceforge.net Description: The Game Texture Loader is very much just as it says, a library for loading texture formats commonly used in games. License: zlib Added: September 17, 2007 ImageMagick www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php Description: ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves. License: GPL-compatible license Added: September 17, 2007 jpegxx www.mr-edd.co.uk/?page_id=35 Description: jpegxx is a library for loading and saving JPEG compressed images. Author:Edd Dawson License: Boost software license version 1.0 Added: October 8, 2007 libjpeg www.ijg.org Added: October 31, 2004 libpng - Portable Network Graphics www.libpng.org/pub/png/ License: zlib Added: October 31, 2004 LibTIFF www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ Description: TIFF Library and Utilities. Added: September 17, 2007 Paintlib www.paintlib.de/paintlib/ Description: A portable C++ class library for image loading, saving and manipulation. Images can be loaded from BMP, GIF, IFF, JPEG, PCX, PGM, PICT, PNG, PSD, SGI, TGA, TIFF and WMF files and saved in BMP, JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats. Image manipulation can be done either through filters implemented in filter classes or by directly accessing the bitmap bits. Author:Ulrich von Zadow Added: October 31, 2004 SDL_image www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/ Description: An image file loading library. It loads images as SDL surfaces, and supports the following formats: BMP, PNM, XPM, LBM, PCX, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TGA. Authors:Sam Lantinga, Mattias Engdegard License: LGPL Added: October 31, 2004