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SAIGA

Saiga is a lightweight utility and rendering framework. It supports all major desktop operating systems and provides OpenGL and Vulkan rendering backends. Saiga was successfully used as a game engine for Redie and in many privat and university projects.

<img src="data/textures/sample.png" width="425"/> <img src="data/textures/redie.jpg" width="425"/>

History

• January 2014: Development start as a private OpenGL framework for university projects.

• September 2015: The name SAIGA was chosen as a reference to the saiga antelope.

• April 2014 - December 2016: Development of the game Redie. In this time most of SAIGA's functionality was added so it could be used as a lightweight game engine.

• January 2017 - August 2017: Increased usability and documentation in preparation of the open source release.

• August 2017: Open-Source Release.

• September 2018: Experimental Vulkan support.

• December 2018: Added Vision module with focus on SLAM, Reconstruction, Registration, and Optimization

Supported Compilers

• g++ 8.2
• Visual Studio 2017
• clang++ 7.0

Master	Experimental

Required Dependencies

• OpenGL 3.3
• GLM 0.9.9-a2

Optional Dependencies

Window creation and GL-Context managment

• SDL
• GLFW
• Mesa EGL

Sound loading and playback

• OpenAL
• ALUT
• Opus

Video Recording

• FFMPEG

Model Loading

• ASSIMP

Image/Font loading

• PNG
• FreeImage + FreeImagePlus
• freetype

Utility

• Eigen
• CUDA

Vulkan

• LunarG SDK
• GLSLANG

Building + Running the samples

Building With Submodules

sudo apt install xorg-dev

git clone git@github.com:darglein/saiga.git
git submodule update --init --recursive

Linux

• Install dependencies with the package manager (in older Linux systems you might have to compile the latest library versions by yourself)

  Package names for Ubuntu and other Debian-based distributions. Install these with sudo apt install <package_name>

# Window Management
libglfw3-dev

# Image
libpng-dev libfreeimage-dev libfreeimageplus-dev

# Sound
libopenal-dev libopus-dev libopusfile-dev

# Video 
libavutil-dev libavcodec-dev libavresample-dev libswscale-dev libavformat-dev

# Other Misc
libassimp-dev 
libeigen3-dev 
libsuitesparse-dev
libfreetype6-dev

• Build Saiga

cd saiga
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

License

SAIGA is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for more information.