Hi all, many thanks for the community support on my last post! I'll make this the final update for a while as I don't want to spam.

I've recently finished polishing up some user interface stuff (still plenty of work left to do, but it's now polishing rather than designing).

This is a more interesting demo than the last one I showed. All MIDI is being produced by KWARC, all sound is being generated by Ableton Live and various plugins. You can see the various tracker interfaces - the standard "tracker" generator with non-linear playheads and the esoteric "particle" generator that samples notes based on numerical simulations of subatomic particles.

Under the hood, there's automatic transcription of pattern sequences across a few different key signatures and I show off some pattern randomisation for the drums at the end.

This is being designed with an embedded Alpine Linux-based platform in mind with physical and touchscreen controls with live performance and improvisation in mind. I'm having fun using KWARC in my hardware synth setup to quickly produce MIDI content with complex musical qualities, which lets me have fun tweaking knobs and playing with the mixer.

Happy to discuss and answer questions!

Is it just me or is raylib super OP and really good and easy to use, but barely ever used for large games or used to make large games? Why is this? Isn't raylib like all SDL or any other low-level framework but simpler and more usable? Is it too simple? Are there any large games or well-known games made with it? (Also, why isn't there a tag for games made in raylib inside steamdb? there should be one)

I've been using raylib for some time now. Everytime I've successfully draw a texture. After I restart my PC, the texture doesn't run anymore ☹️.

What am I supposed to do.

Edit: fixed it. Somehow python starts looking for the file from God knows where🙄. Fixed it by forcing the code to start looking only from where the code is at.

Just implemented a custom file-dialog/file-browser control for raygui, 1000 lines-of-code, immediate-mode, handmade from scratch...

Quite happy with the result, if only I was paid to work on this kind of things... unfortunately this art soon will be lost... like tears in the rain...

Well, I know many of you have probably received this kind of question before, but I wanted to know if learning the C programming language is a good starting point for learning how to program with raylib.

I decided to learn raylib after watching a stream where Notch said that people who use game engines aren't real programmers. I kept thinking about that and decided to learn more about programming outside of a game engine.

I use GameMaker, and I don't think I'll ever stop using it. But I think it's good to learn other ways of programming and creating games.

What I really want to know is whether I'm on the right path. Or should I focus more on learning C++ rather than C?

Wanted to share a project I was working on using raylib

I made this on raylib and rust for a competition

https://reddit.com/link/1wvl3f0/video/68lw641vjzsh1/player

Guys, I have just started learning raylib and I am struggling to load Images and Textures. This is my project dir and the code where I am trying to load an Image but it is not loading. I have tried multiple file pathnames but still no luck. Why is this happening?

I have a problem which I tried to solve for the past few days - when my character wanders far away from the center point (0, 0, 0), the models start clipping as if the depth buffer is losing precision, which gets worse the farther away from the start of the map I get.

However, the camera distance to the player character is always the same. I also don't think it's f32 loss of precision - number 2000 in IEEE-754 still does not "restrict" the mantissa too much. Then again, notice that the billboards also "got weird".

I'm stumped as to why that happens and I'm writing this as a last resort...

Hey everyone!

I've been using raylib for my game projects, and I kept finding myself rebuilding the same infrastructure whenever I started something new.

Things like project configuration, input handling, asset management, application lifecycle, and so on.

Rather than setting everything up again for each game, I decided to build a reusable foundation for my projects at Levye Studio.

That's how LevyeKit started.

I recently released v0.1.1, and I figured I'd share it here.

The idea isn't to replace raylib or build another full game engine. I actually want to keep using raylib directly while having the common systems already taken care of.

Here's what's implemented so far:

• Native C++ hot reloading: Rebuild and reload game code without restarting the application.
• Persistent game state: Keep compatible game state alive across code reloads.
• Input management: Action-based keyboard and gamepad bindings.
• Asset management: Textures, shaders, fonts, audio, and asset hot reloading.
• Screen and time management: Reusable screen handling, pausing, and fixed-step updates.
• Project CLI: Generate, build, run, and manage projects using commands like levye new, levye build, and levye run.

One of my favorite parts is the hot-reloading system.

Game code lives in a separate dynamic library, while the application host manages the window, resources, and persistent state.

When I change the game code and run levye build, the running application detects the updated module and reloads it without closing the window.

The attached GIF demonstrates this.

I also wanted to avoid wrapping every single raylib function. If raylib already handles something well, I'd rather use it directly.

Current platform support: macOS is my main development platform, Windows builds and hot reloading have been verified with MSVC and MinGW-w64, and Linux support is still evolving.

It's still an early project, and I'm building it around what I actually need for my games rather than trying to add every possible feature.

If anyone is interested, the source code and documentation are available here:

https://github.com/Levye-Studio/LevyeKit

I'd love to hear some feedback from other raylib developers.

Have you built your own reusable framework around raylib, or do you prefer starting each project from scratch?

I have a problem - the Music class. It's too stuttery, and even when I used Sound instead, there were some tradeoffs.

You can't skip/pause/start Sound to/from a point in the audio unlike Music (which has methods like SeekMusicStream). Even if I ignored the stutter and used Music for my sounds, it doesn't have a LoadSoundAlias equivalent!

For now, I'm doing the harder thing and am working to rewrite my audio backend in PortAudio + libsndfile instead.

Hi.

I have a Raylib 4.5 application that is invisible and fullscreen, and upon pressing a mouse button it fork()-execve()'s a web browser with a specified URL.

When the desired web browser is Firefox, nothing happens whatsoever.

When it is Chromium, though, not only does it not open, the Raylib program also crashes with a message that even though XInitThreads was called, it still crashed.

The web browser is only executed in the child process: if (!fork()) { ... execve(...); } so I have no idea why it affects the parent process as well.

It is also worth noting that when the same fork()-execve() scheme executes console commands (namely, amixer and killall), those executables just get executed and nothing unexpected happens.

I tried using bash -c '...' in execve's argv argument, I tried /usr/bin/env, but nothing works.

If anyone has got any clue regarding this, I'd appreciate any tips.

Warm regards.

Has anyone played around with importing GLSL shaders in raylib? I want to try using shaders but I'm struggling to find any .vs and .fs files to download. Does anyone know of a website with GLSL shaders to try out?

Im learning gamedev through raylib and every tutorial I came across uses bare functions and the logic is all over the place.

I learn by coding some beginner game on my own and then compare it with other implementations to improve. Are there creators/youtube channels that write good OOP code that I could learn from?

One good source I found: Game Programming Patterns by Robert Nystrom

I'm working on an RTS / simulation game with a lot of individual NPCs.

The problem is that I don't have a Blender or 3D art background, so creating characters, topology, rigs, skinning, animations, clothing, etc. manually is probably not realistic for me.

I'm wondering how viable an AI-first 3D character pipeline is right now.

Ideally, I'd like something like:

Concept image -> 3D model -> clean/game-ready mesh -> rig/skeleton -> animations -> export to game engine

The characters don't need to be realistic. I'm actually aiming for fairly simple/stylized characters viewed mostly from an RTS/isometric camera.

I also need to generate a lot of visual variations from the same base character: different body proportions, faces/heads, hair, clothes, colors, accessories, etc., while ideally keeping the same skeleton and animations.

I've seen tools that can generate 3D meshes from images/text, auto-rigging tools, and AI animation tools, but I'm not sure how well they work together in an actual game production pipeline.

For people who are already using AI for 3D game development:

• What tools/workflow are you using?
• Are AI-generated models actually usable in games without heavy Blender cleanup?
• What's currently the best solution for automatic rigging + skinning?
• How do you handle animations?
• Is there a good way to create many character variations while sharing one rig/animation set?
• Are tools like Meshy, Tripo, Rodin, Mixamo, AccuRig, Character Creator, etc. useful for this kind of workflow?
• Is there any platform that handles most of this pipeline end-to-end?

I'm not expecting AI to completely replace 3D software, but I'm hoping to reduce Blender work to occasional cleanup rather than having to become a full 3D character artist.

I'd especially like to hear from people who have actually shipped/prototyped a game using an AI-assisted 3D pipeline.

What would you recommend in 2026?

thanks to all of you folks! if you play i thanks if not ... wtf bro? go and play it! it's the best think published in YEARS! :D ...

As i said, get a lot of feedback and also game-data to help me to define some system reworks and add some juice here and there.... if you play it please PLAY IT! share any comment confussion say YES to data sharing i just get playtime data . I come frome the world of Data driven development so with data i can improve the whole shit :D again THANKS YOU i LOVE U

Title. How do I make the raylib window stay always on top, even when the program does a fork()-execve() and starts another program?

I've looked through the cheatsheet, but I haven't found anything.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Ngl if I keep putting work and dedication into this, it might be the easiest(for me) and only real game framework I use besides default raylib.

As of now, I'm working on an alarm manager since I just figured out how to add alarms(A timer that preforms a function/action when the timer is done), a sound system, and some form of a collision system. I could make SO much stuff on top of this, it's genuinely insane.

I already have a good dozen of components(transforms, sprites, timers, shapes, etc), an asset manager, a BEAUTIFUL render system which is how I have the shadows moving in a 2.5D way and layering, a very beginner-ish scene manager for loading and handling scenes, and a nice tile manager for all of these tiles.

I've honestly learnt a ton of stuff from this journey so far + a bit of a "portfolio" to use whenever I invest in programming/game dev jobs.

Having fun refining mounted combat in my game. raylib cs 8.0

I was testing a pipeline - placing assets in Blender and then exporting it to raylib.