Magnum is 3D graphics engine written in C++11 and OpenGL 3 Core Profile. Features:

• Easy-to-use templated mathematical library for matrix/vector calculations and geometry.
• Classes wrapping OpenGL objects and simplifying their usage - shaders, buffers, meshes and textures. Access to framebuffer and occlusion queries.
• Mesh tools for cleaning, optimizing and generating meshes, utility classes for color conversion, timeline and profiling.
• Hierarchical scene graph which supports transformation caching for better performance, physics library for collision detection and rigid body dynamics.
• Plugin-based data exchange framework for importing image, mesh, material and scene data in various formats.
• Collection of pre-made graphic primitives and shaders for testing purposes.
• Classes for creating OpenGL-enabled applications with various toolkits, methods for querying supported OpenGL version and available extensions.
• Comprehensive use of C++11 features for safety, performance and ease of development. All code which doesn't directly interact with OpenGL is covered with unit tests.
• Actively maintained Doxygen documentation. Occasionally updated snapshot is also available online at http://mosra.cz/blog/magnum-doc/ .

INSTALLATION

You can either use packaging scripts, which are stored in package/ subdirectory, or compile and install everything manually. Note that Doxygen documentation (see above or build your own using instructions below) contains more comprehensive guide for building, packaging and crosscompiling.

Minimal dependencies

• C++ compiler with good C++11 support. Currently there are two compilers which are tested to support everything needed: GCC >= 4.6 and Clang

  = 3.1.

• CMake >= 2.8.8 (needed for OBJECT library target)
• GLEW - OpenGL extension wrangler (only if targeting desktop OpenGL)
• Corrade - Plugin management and utility library. You can get it at http://github.com/mosra/corrade or at http://mosra.cz/blog/corrade.php.

Compilation, installation

The library (for example with support for GLUT applications) can be built and installed using these four commands:

mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake .. \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DWITH_GLUTAPPLICATION=ON
make
make install

Building and running unit tests

If you want to build also unit tests (which are not built by default), pass -DBUILD_TESTS=ON to CMake. Unit tests use Corrade's TestSuite framework and can be run using

ctest --output-on-failure

in build directory. Everything should pass ;-)

Building documentation

The documentation is written in Doxygen (version 1.8 with Markdown support is used, but older versions should do good job too) and additionally uses Graphviz for class diagrams and TeX for math formulas. The documentation can be build by running:

doxygen

in root directory (i.e. where Doxyfile is). Resulting HTML documentation will be in build/doc/ directory. You might need to create build/ directory if it doesn't exist yet.

PLUGINS AND EXAMPLES

Various importer plugins for image and 3D model formats are maintained in separate repository, which can be found at http://github.com/mosra/magnum-plugins .

There are also examples of engine usage, varying from simple Hello World-like example to more advanced applications, such as viewer for complex 3D models. Example repository is at http://github.com/mosra/magnum-examples .

CONTACT

Want to learn more about the library? Found a bug or want to tell me an awesome idea? Feel free to visit my website or contact me at:

• Website - http://mosra.cz/blog/
• GitHub - https://github.com/mosra/magnum
• E-mail - mosra@centrum.cz
• Jabber - mosra@jabbim.cz