abmantis / angle

ANGLE: Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine

ANGLE -- ms-master branch

This is an active branch with Windows Store versions of ANGLE. It contains full support for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1, and other features such as performance improvements and memory savings.

If you are developing for Windows 8.0 or Windows Phone 8.0 then please see the version of ANGLE in the 'winrt' branch of https://github.com/MSOpenTech/angle-win8.0

About ANGLE

ANGLE allows Windows users to seamlessly run OpenGL ES content, by translating OpenGL ES API into DirectX 11 API calls.

More information about the ANGLE project is available here: https://code.google.com/p/angleproject/

Requirements

• Visual Studio Community 2013 (Update 4), or higher/later.
• Windows 8.1 for local Windows development.

Getting Started

The /templates/ directory contains easy-to-use Visual Studio templates for OpenGL ES/ANGLE. View the README in that directory for installation instructions.

The Windows Store solutions for ANGLE are located here:

• /winrt/8.1/windows/src/angle.sln
• /winrt/8.1/windowsphone/src/angle.sln

The ANGLE solution for Windows desktop applications is located here:

• /src/angle.sln

Features (available now)

• Full Windows Store support for both ICoreWindow and SwapChainPanel for XAML applications.
• This branch uses approximately half the memory compared to older versions of ANGLE for Windows Store.
• GPU performance gains, particularly on mobile devices.
• D3D Feature Level 9.3 support, for running on mobile devices.
• Runtime shader compilation on both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1

Work-in-progress features

• Improved D3D Feature Level 9.3 support.
• Improved OpenGL ES 3.0 compliance.
• Compressed texture support.
• Many other features.

Feedback

If you have feedback about this branch then we would love to hear it. Please log an issue on this GitHub page, or contact the Microsoft Open Tech Inc. contributors directly (listed below).

Microsoft Open Tech Inc. Contributors

• Cooper Partin (coopp-at-microsoft-dot-com)
• Austin Kinross (aukinros-at-microsoft-dot-com)