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Getting started with BGFX

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[video] Getting started with BGFX is a YouTube playlist by Game Coder Nz that walks through the bgfx cross-platform rendering library from a blank project to basic 3D and UI text.

Episodes cover introduction, project setup, initializing bgfx, index and vertex buffers, shaders, rendering an image, a renderer class, frame buffers, depth testing blending and stencil, ImGui, 3D rendering, reading a color, font atlas textures, and drawing text across fifteen numbered videos.

It is for beginner to intermediate C++ graphics programmers who want structured bgfx onboarding rather than reading API headers alone.

The series is free on YouTube as a continuous playlist, with each episode playable in order.

It is useful as a practical entry into bgfx resource creation, shaders, and common rendering states before building a custom engine layer.

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