ThirdParty Code and Data
This page lists which third party code and data is used by Plasma.
Before you distribute any project, please check the licensing conditions for all used components. The list below tries to be exhaustive and up-to-date for components directly used by Plasma, but this is only provided for your convenience and we give no guarantee for correctness. It is still your responsibility to make absolutely certain that your project doesn't violate any licensing conditions from third-party components used directly or indirectly in your project.
Assimp
Link: http://www.assimp.org
Compile switch: None (hard dependency for the asset processing)
Open Asset Import Library, a portable Open Source library to import various well-known 3D model formats in a uniform manner.
cc0Textures
Link: https://cc0textures.com
CC0 Textures offers a library containing hundreds of detailed PBR materials with displacement-, normal- and roughness maps for photorealistic rendering. All assets are available for free and without any restrictions.
cgbookcase
Link: https://cgbookcase.com
cgbookcase provides hundreds of high quality, PBR textures. All textures on cgbookcase.com are licensed as CC0.
Dear Imgui
Link: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
Compile switch: PL_3RDPARTY_IMGUI_SUPPORT
A nice library for easily creating ingame GUIs.
DirectXTex
Link: https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectXTex
Compile switch: Currently none
Used by plImage and the plTexConv tool for GPU-enabled block compression.
Duktape
Link: https://duktape.org
Compile switch: PL_3RDPARTY_DUKTAPE_SUPPORT
Duktape is an embeddable Javascript engine, with a focus on portability and compact footprint. It can be used directly or through plDuktapeWrapper. Non-essential for the engine, but scripting functionality (using TypeScript) is built on top of it.
Enet
Link: http://enet.bespin.org
Compile switch: PL_3RDPARTY_ENET_SUPPORT
An efficient and easy to use networking library, built on top of the UDP protocol. It is used by plTelemetry to interact with the plInspector, and it is also used to implement the file serving functionality.
FleetOps
Link: https://www.fleetops.net
Some assets were kindly provided with permission to use and redistribute, by the awesome team behind the FleetOps project. Thanks so much guys!
FMOD 2.x
Link: https://www.fmod.com
Compile switch: PL_BUILD_FMOD
Plasma has an integration for the FMOD sound system.
FMOD is a commercial product and you may need to buy a license to use it in your project.
FreeSound
Link: https://freesound.org
Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.
jc_voronoi
Link: https://github.com/JCash/voronoi/blob/dev/src/jc_voronoi.h
Compile switch: None
A fast single file 2D voronoi diagram generator. Used by plBreakableSheetComponent.
Jolt Physics
Link: https://github.com/jrouwe/JoltPhysics
Compile switch: PL_3RDPARTY_JOLT_SUPPORT
Jolt Physics is a free and open source physics engine. It is used to provide collision detection, physics simulation, character controllers and other interactions.
Kenney.nl
Link: kenney.nl
Kenney provides thousands of textures, 3D models and sound effects under a generous public domain license. Some of them are used in our sample projects.
Lua
Link: (http://www.lua.org
Compile switch: PL_3RDPARTY_LUA_SUPPORT
The Lua scripting language. Can be used directly or through plLuaWrapper for easier access to common functionality. Non-essential for Plasma, only the ingame console interpreter would stop working without it.
Mikktspace
Link: http://mmikkelsen3d.blogspot.ie
Compile switch: None (hard dependency for the asset processing)
Tangent space generation code by Morten S. Mikkelsen. See https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Shading/Tangent_Space_Normal_Maps for more information. It is used by plGeometry.
Ozz
Link: http://guillaumeblanc.github.io/ozz-animation
Compile switch: None
Used as the basis for skeletal animations. Both during asset import (to build an optimized skeleton structure) and at runtime for animation playback.
Qt 5
Link: https://www.qt.io
Compile switch: PL_ENABLE_QT_SUPPORT
Used for all desktop GUI code in the editor and tools.
Depending on how you use Qt, you may need to acquire (buy) a license for it. See https://www.qt.io/terms-conditions/.
Qt Advanced Docking System
Link https://github.com/githubuser0xFFFF/Qt-Advanced-Docking-System
Compile switch PL_3RDPARTY_ADS_SUPPORT
A docking system for Qt similiar to the one in visual studio. Used by the editor and inspector applications.
Recast
Compile switch: PL_3RDPARTY_RECAST_SUPPORT
Link: https://github.com/recastnavigation/recastnavigation
A library to generate navigation meshes from arbitrary 3D geometry.
RenderDoc
Link: https://renderdoc.org
Compile switch: PL_3RDPARTY_RENDERDOC_SUPPORT
RenderDoc is a free MIT licensed stand-alone graphics debugger. The plRenderDocPlugin enables full control over taking RenderDoc snapshots from within the engine.
RmlUi
Link: https://mikke89.github.io/RmlUiDoc/
RmlUi is the C++ user interface package based on the HTML and CSS standards, designed as a complete solution for any project's interface needs. It is a fork of the libRocket project, introducing new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
SFML
Link: http://www.sfml-dev.org
Compile switch: currently none (TODO)
This library provides a simple and portable interface for window creation, input handling and more. Used by plWindow and plStandardInputDevice on non-Windows platforms (Mac, Linux).
Silk Icons
Link: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk
Icons from this set are used by the tools.
Sonniss
Link: https://sonniss.com
Sonniss is a premium distribution platform for high-quality sound effects libraries. Sounds distributed from Sonnis are taken from the GameAudioGDC bundles. See Data\Content\Sound\FmodProject\Assets\Sonnis\Licensing.pdf for details.
stb
Link: https://github.com/nothings/stb
Compile switch: None
Public domain licensed code by Sean Barrett. Used by plImage to read and write some of the supported formats like PNG and JPEG.
UTF8-CPP
Link: https://github.com/nemtrif/utfcpp
Compile switch: None
A library that provides Unicode related functionality. Integrated directly into plFoundation.
V-HACD
Link: https://github.com/kmammou/v-hacd
Compile switch: PL_3RDPARTY_VHACD_SUPPORT
The "Volumetric Hierarchical Approximate Convex Decomposition" library is used to decompose a concave triangle mesh into multiple convex pieces. This allows you to generate complex collision meshes which can be used as the shapes of dynamic actors.
xxHash
Link: https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash
Compile switch: None
A very fast hash algorithm. Integrated directly into plFoundation.
zLib
Link: http://www.zlib.net
Compile switch: PL_3RDPARTY_ZLIB_SUPPORT
Provides algorithms for zip compression and decompression. It is used by plCompressedStreamReaderZlib and plCompressedStreamWriterZlib in plFoundation.
zstd
Link: https://facebook.github.io/zstd
Compile switch: PL_3RDPARTY_ZSTD_SUPPORT
A very fast lossless compression library. It is used by plCompressedStreamReaderZstd and plCompressedStreamWriterZstd and also by plArchive.