Introduction

This library contains some helper classes to ease the development of Castor3D engine.

Summary

Data

• File management base class
• BinaryFile and TextFile specialisations
• FileParser, a brace file parser, along with its FileParserContext
• Loader base class
• BinaryLoader and TextLoader specialisations
• ZipArchive (new in 0.8.0)

Design

• Collection, a thread-safe container
• Factory
• Named
• NonCopyable
• Unique

Graphics

• Colour and ColourComponent
• ContainerBox, CubeBox and SphereBox
• Font, Glyph
• Image
• PixelFormat, Pixel and PxBuffer, to manage pixel conversions
• Position, Size

Mathematics

• Angle conversions
• Coords, to have a point class which doesn't own its data
• Point, to have a point class which owns its data
• Line (2D and 3D) equations
• Matrix and SquareMatrix
• Plane equations
• Quaternion
• SphericalVertex
• Rectangle
• Template math functions (such as exp, ln, ...)

Miscellaneous

• BlockTracker and BlockTimer
• Console and Logger
• PreciseTimer
• DynamicLibrary
• Resource
• DynamicLibrary

Installation

Step 1 : downloading the source

The project sources are available here or on SourceForge GIT server : http://subversion.developpez.com/projets/Castor3D

Step 2 : Compilation

When sources are downloaded, you must use CMake (available here) to generate the project file most suitable to your system (Makefile, Code::Blocks, Visual Studio, ...)
You'll need additional libraries :

• FreeImage
• FreeType 2
• libzip
• boost::thread, if your compiler doesn't support std::thread

Once you downloaded, compiled and installed the dependencies, you can compile CastorUtils.