viewport-lib

viewport-lib is a gpu-accelerated 3D viewport library for rust. The library gives you a renderer, camera, picking-tools, light sources, gizmos and scene primitives.

Whichever gui library you choose to use (winit, eframe, Iced, Slint, etc.), the integration model stays the same in each case:

• viewport-lib owns rendering and viewport-side maths;
• your application owns the window, event loop, and tool state;

WARNING: viewport-lib has only recently been extracted as a stand-alone library from a separate project and the API is still somewhat unstable.

Core features

• mesh, point cloud, polyline, and volume rendering
• directional lighting, shadow mapping, and post-processing
• material shading, normal maps, transparency, outlines, and x-ray views
• clip planes, section views, scalar coloring, and colormaps
• arcball camera, view presets, framing, and smooth camera animation
• CPU/GPU picking, rectangle selection, transform gizmos, and snapping
• annotations, axes indicators

Examples

The examples/ directory contains working integrations for several GUI frameworks.

• winit-viewport: the most basic setup: raw winit + wgpu with no GUI framework. Start here if you want to understand the minimal integration.
• eframe-viewport: a straightforward example of embedding the viewport inside an egui/eframe application using egui_wgpu callback resources.
• winit-showcase: several more advanced rendering options in 9 showcases

Other examples:

• iced-viewport, slint-viewport, winit-showcase, gtk4-viewport

Run examples with:

cargo run --release --example winit-viewport

Quick start

use glam::{Mat4, vec3};
use viewport_lib::{Camera, FrameData, RenderCamera, SceneRenderItem, SurfaceSubmission, primitives};

// Upload the cube primitive mesh once at startup
let mesh_index = renderer.resources_mut().upload_mesh_data(&device, &primitives::cube(1.0))?;

// Build a frame each render tick
let camera = Camera::default();
let model = glam::Mat4::from_translation(glam::vec3(1.0, 2.0, 0.0));
let item = SceneRenderItem {
    mesh_index,
    model: model.to_cols_array_2d(),
    ..SceneRenderItem::default()
};

let mut fd = FrameData::default();
fd.camera.render_camera = RenderCamera::from_camera(&camera);
fd.camera.viewport_size = [width, height];
fd.scene.surfaces = SurfaceSubmission::Flat(vec![item]);

renderer.prepare(&device, &queue, &fd);
// then call the renderer -- this will depend on what GUI you are using
// renderer.paint_to(&mut render_pass, &fd);