Forge is a suite of artist tools for creating 2d/3d content. The tools are developed with an emphasis on clarity and simplicity.

Popular content creation applications are monolithic, they all tend to do a large number of things rather poorly. This project aims to provide individual, purpose-built tools that each solve a particular problem well.

Forge is the name of both the overarching project, and the foundation library that Forge tools are built upon. The library provides a common framework for programmers to develop digital content creation tools (sometimes abbreviated as DCCs). It includes basic support for: linear algebra; geometry processing; shading and rendering; and so on. It also provides a fundamental module for building responsive graphical user interfaces.

Forge software is, and always will be, committed to being free. Read the docs for more information.

#Overview

This repo is the foundation library for Forge tools.

#Objectives

• Lightweight
• GPU-accelerated
• Extensibility via plug-ins
• Combine procedural and interactive (immediate) workflows
• Support for industry-standard interchange/file formats
  • Alembic
  • Universal Scene Description (USD)
• ISO C11
• POSIX compliance

#Build

Forge projects build using Meson.

#Preprocessor defines

FG_REAL_64 — Set fg_real to double (64-bit). This subsequently switches the fg_vecn/fg_matn coefficient types and the types used by various math operations.

#Contributing

Patches should be submitted to forge-devel. Please read through the Style Guide and Contribution Guide prior to submission.

#License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only (more info), unless otherwise specified.

#Third-party licenses

• PCG (Apache License 2.0)
• FreeType 2 (Freetype Project License)
• Manrope, Inter (SIL Open Font License 1.1)