atk

Animation Toolkit: lightweight C++ library for character animation and motion analysis.

Getting started

The included example example.cpp reads a BVH file and prints the local orientations of each joint for the first frame.

How to build

You will need to have a C++ build environment, git and cmake installed. See the next section for instructions if you need advice setting this up. This repository depends on GLM which is included with this repository under /external.

Windows

Run the following commands from git bash

$ mkdir -p build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ start atk.sln

Start will launch Visual Studio. From here, set example as the startup project and use the menu options to Build and Run.

NOTE: The $ symbol indicates your prompt.

macOS and Ubuntu

Run the following commands from the root directory of this repository, in terminal.

$ mkdir -p build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ ../bin/example

NOTE: The $ symbol indicates your prompt.

Setting up your development environment

Windows

Git and cmake can be installed with the following:

• Download and install git.
• Download and install cmake.

If you do not have a C++ compiler on windows, you can use the community version of visual studio.

• Download and install Visual Studio Community.

Important!! During installation, select: Desktop development with C++

Dependencies, such as GLM, are included in this repository under /external.

macOS

On macOS, install the C++ compiler with xcode. cmake can be installed with brew.

• command xcode-select --install
• brew install cmake

Ubuntu

On linux, install the necessary tools and dependencies using apt-get.

• sudo apt-get install cmake
• sudo apt-get install git