Dear ImGui -- C++ GUI Framework For AAA Games and Game Engines

Dear imGUI is a light weight open source cross platform immediate mode GUI toolkit, used by tons of AAA game studios, for both games and game engines/tools. Dear imGUI 1.80 was just released.

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[PolygonHive]

We used this a lot in the AAA industry, probably the best debug UI ever. And the remote functionality is awesome 😉👍

[apollolux]

Two things to note that aren't covered in this video:

1. While for some reason not listed in the users, Adobe also uses Dear ImGui and with the Dear ImGui implementation of their "Spectrum Design Language" (basically a glorified style guide, but still useful nonetheless) they plan on making their future app GUIs more visually consistent and unified, and the rendering more platform-agnostic. My personal assumption is they're going to double down on their existing use of Chromium Embedded Framework.
2. The design methodologies and the overall history and progress of the Dear ImGui project are more apparent once you realize that the dev, Omar Cornut, is also known as Bock, the dev of the Sega emulator Meka. Using, even just looking at, Meka you will see this is a dev who eats his own dogfood.

[seppukun]

ooof, I remember IMGUI. I used it in my first year of uni. It moves so fast and gets updated so often it's hard to keep up. But it certainly made my project way better looking than the rest of my classmates.

[mazimadu]

"It run on your toaster probably ..."
(Sees Qt)
HE'S NOT LYING!!

[joshmadscientist]

Damn it. When telling my friend about the ui toolset I was writing for my engine, he mentioned imgui. I shoulda listened and saved myself a month.

[darkaaaaaaa]

How simple to implement backend for ImGUI? I've got it all running, inlcuding input, on N3DS under 8 hours.

[ucmRich]

check out The Cherno he build his own engine "Hazel Game Engine" and he uses ImGui.

[legend]

dang, ive seen this kind of thing in games and never realized it was open source!

[MichaelProstka]

Been looking to replace Qt for our in-house tools, this might be just the right fit.

[UnidayStudio]

I use this in my game engine, it's awesome!

[tomtawadros]

Interesting, seen star citizen use this. Always thought it was just a feature of their engine.

[cykboy]

imgui is awesome but not so much for most actual game UI, tooling and such however its brilliant for

[michaelbitzer]

I have been using it for years and it is amazing!

[VertegrezNox]

Thank you. been looking for more info on creating 'tools' & this looks pretty nice so ill do some more digging and probably give it a shot

[IElial]

Thx ! Strangely I was completely bling on this side. And just understand what Im mean in ImGui ^^. So to be clear, this is mainly devoted to Dev UI (like tool) but not for end user (player) interface (like creating game menu, inventory, ...)

[MastermindAtWork]

I seen Game Freak's Pokemon Sword and Shield engine used ImGUI from the Beta images shown of the game.

[sharkinahat]

I only played a bit with the Python bidings and it worked fine. I like its no nonsense style, you don't get 55 types of Button classes.

[SophiaWoessner]

Light theme genuinely fucking hurt, and then the second lighttheme jumpscare of github also hurt

[Murderface]

I remember the days when people would say "why reinvent the wheel? There's already Unreal and Unity!" Where are they now?

[herrdingenz]

3:00 Dear ImGui has drag'n'drop and cut'n'paste .. it even has docking and viewports