SFML.Net - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library for .Net

SFML is a simple, fast, cross-platform and object-oriented multimedia API. It provides access to windowing, graphics, audio and network. It is originally written in C++.

This is not the official .NET binding!

Please go to SFML/SFML.Net to get the official .net binding.

Authors

• Laurent Gomila - main developer (laurent@sfml-dev.org)
• Zachariah Brown - active maintainer (contact@zbrown.net)
• Diogo Gomes - the guy to blame if this fork breaks (dgomes@graphnode.com)

Using the Library

The easy way, and what most people want, is to use the nuget package so use IDE package manager to get it. See the next part on how to build the source.

Building the Source

Run the Graphnode.SFML.Net.Build project to build the source.
It will download the CSFML dependencies automatically and create the nuget package.

• The bin folder contains the sfml.net assemblies.
• The build folder contains the nuget package ready to go.
• The obj folder should contain the downloaded csfml files.

Running the Examples

Open the solution and start the project in the Examples folders.
It should do everything automatically including downloading the csfml and required nuget packages (opentk).

Building the Documentation

You need to download the Sandcastle Help File Builder (SHFB) and then either use the Visual Studio plugin or standalone application to build the shfb project in the /doc directory.

Learn

There is no tutorial for SFML.Net, but since it's a binding you can use the C++ resources:

• The official tutorials (http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/)
• The online API documentation (http://www.sfml-dev.org/documentation/)
• The community wiki (https://github.com/SFML/SFML/wiki/)
• The community forum (http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/) (or http://fr.sfml-dev.org/forums/ for French people)

Of course, you can also find the SFML.Net API documentation in the SDK.

Dependencies

• SFML.Net requires the CSFML files which are automatically downloaded if they are not found.
• OpenTK is only required in some examples for demonstrative purposes.

Contribute

Note: Please use this fork's issue tracker (https://github.com/graphnode/SFML.Net/issues), and not the official one, for issues related to this fork.

SFML and SFML.Net are open-source projects, and they need your help to go on growing and improving. Don't hesitate to post suggestions or bug reports on the forum (http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/) or post new bugs/features requests on the task tracker (https://github.com/SFML/SFML.Net/issues/). You can even fork the project on GitHub, maintain your own version and send us pull requests periodically to merge your work.