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Swift Assimp

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This is a thin Swift wrapper around the popular and excellent Open Asset Import Library library.
It provides a swifty and typesafe API.

Open Asset Import Library (short name: Assimp) is a portable Open Source library to import various well-known 3D model formats in a uniform manner. The most recent version also knows how to export 3d files and is therefore suitable as a general-purpose 3D model converter. Loads 40+ 3D file formats into one unified and clean data structure.
~ www.assimp.org

🚀 Getting Started

These instructions will get your copy of the project up and running on your local machine and provide a code example.

📋 Prerequisites

💻 Installing

Swift Assimp is available for all platforms that support Swift 5.3 and higher and the Swift Package Manager (SPM).

Extend your Package.swift file with the following lines or use it to create a new project.

For package manifests using the Swift 5.3+ toolchain use:

// swift-tools-version:5.3
import PackageDescription

let package = Package(
    name: "YourPackageName",
    dependencies: [
        .package(name: "Assimp", url: "https://github.com/ctreffs/SwiftAssimp.git", from: "2.1.0")
    ],
    targets: [
        .target(
            name: "YourTargetName",
            dependencies: ["Assimp"])
    ]
)

Since it's a system library wrapper you need to install the assimp library (>=5.0.0) either via

brew install assimp

or

apt-get install libassimp-dev

depending on you platform.

📝 Code Example

import Assimp

let scene: AiScene = try AiScene(file: <path/to/model/file.obj>, 
                                 flags: [.removeRedundantMaterials, .genSmoothNormals]))

// get meshes
let meshes: [AiMesh] = scene.meshes

// get materials
let matrials: [AiMaterial] = scene.materials

// get the root node of the scene graph
let rootNode: [AiNode] = scene.rootNode

See the unit tests for more examples.

💁 Help needed

This project is in an early stage and needs a lot of love. If you are interested in contributing, please feel free to do so!

Things that need to be done are, among others:

  • Wrap more assimp functions and types
  • Support for Cocoapods packaging
  • Support for Carthage packaging
  • Write some additional tests to improve coverage

🏷️ Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

✍️ Authors

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

🔏 Licenses

This project is licensed under the 3-Clause BSD License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Original code

Since Swift Assimp is merely a wrapper around assimp it obviously depends on it.
Support them if you can!

Open Asset Import Library (assimp)

A library to import and export various 3d-model-formats including scene-post-processing to generate missing render data.

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