avango


AVANGO is a free software framework designed for interactive, distributed applications. It supports a large range of displays from standard desktop applications to large-scale immersive Virtual Reality installations.

Please cite our work when using our software in your own research or publication.

https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/medien/professuren/vr/software/

Installation

You need a NVIDIA GPU that supports OpenGL 4.2 and CUDA.

Linux

The following guide serves as a step-by-step tutorial on how to build the dependencies and avango itself on Linux. It was tested on a fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04, and the latest commit at the point of writing was 0264611.

As a prerequisite, our rendering engine guacamole must be installed. Please follow the instructions on the GitHub repository for further instructions. The steps to install avango afterwards are as follows:

• apt-get install libpython3.5-dev
• clone https://github.com/vrsys/avango (this repository)
• adapt find script cmake/modules/find_schism.cmake such that SCHISM_INCLUDE_SEARCH_DIRS and SCHISM_LIBRARY_SEARCH_DIRS contain the paths created during the installation of schism in the guacamole installation tutorial
• configure with CMake and set paths to dependencies as mentioned in the guacamole tutorial if not found automatically; in particular, set GUACAMOLE_INCLUDE_DIRS and GUACAMOLE_LIBRARY_DIRS to install/include and install/lib in the guacamole directory
• when CMake can't find libboost_python3 although it was installed, change Boost_PYTHON3_LIBRARY_DEBUG and Boost_PYTHON3_LIBRARY_RELEASE to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python-py35.so
• CMake flags that were set to ON during writing of this tutorial: AVANGO_DISTRIBUTION_SUPPORT, AVANGO_LOD_SUPPORT, AVANGO_PHYSICS_SUPPORT, AVANGO_RUNTIME_PROGRAM_COMPILATION, AVANGO_SKELANIM_SUPPORT, AVANGO_TV_3_SUPPORT, AVANGO_VIDEO3D_SUPPORT
• make

If everything worked well, you can start by running an example in the examples/ directory, e.g. the simple_example.