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Getting Started
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Types:
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**cglm** uses **glm** prefix for all functions e.g. glm_lookat. You can see supported types in common header file:
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As you can see types don't store extra informations in favor of space.
You can send these values e.g. matrix to OpenGL directly without casting or calling a function like *value_ptr*
*vec4* and *mat4* requires 16 byte aligment because vec4 and mat4 operations are
Aligment is Required:
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**vec4** and **mat4** requires 16 byte aligment because vec4 and mat4 operations are
vectorized by SIMD instructions (SSE/AVX).
Allocations:
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*cglm* doesn't alloc any memory on heap. So it doesn't provide any allocator.
You must allocate memory yourself. You should alloc memory for out parameters too if you pass pointer of memory location.
When allocating memory don't forget that **vec4** and **mat4** requires aligment.
**NOTE:** Unaligned vec4 and unaligned mat4 operations will be supported in the future. Check todo list.
Because you may want to multiply a CGLM matrix with external matrix.
There is no guarantee that non-CGLM matrix is aligned. Unaligned types will have *u* prefix e.g. **umat4**
Array vs Struct:
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*cglm* uses arrays for vector and matrix types. So you can't access individual
elements like vec.x, vec.y, vec.z... You must use subscript to access vector elements
e.g. vec[0], vec[1], vec[2].
Also I think it is more meaningful to access matrix elements with subscript
e.g **matrix[2][3]** instead of **matrix._23**. Since matrix is array of vectors,
vectors are also defined as array. This makes types homogeneous.
**Return arrays?**
Since C doesn't support return arrays, cglm also doesn't support this feature.
Function design:
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.. image:: cglm-intro.png
:width: 492px
:height: 297px
:align: center
cglm provides a few way to call a function to do same operation.
* Inline - *glm_, glm_u*
* aligned
* unaligned (todo)
* Pre-compiled - *glmc_, glmc_u*
* aligned
* unaligned (todo)
For instance **glm_mat4_mul** is inline (all *glm_* functions are inline), to make it non-inline (pre-compiled)
For instance **glm_mat4_mul** is inline (all *glm_* functions are inline), to make it non-inline (pre-compiled),
call it as **glmc_mat4_mul** from library, to use unaligned version use **glm_umat4_mul** (todo).
Most functions have **dest** parameter for output. For instance mat4_mul func looks like this: