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Open Asset Import Library (assimp)
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A library to import and export various 3d-model-formats including scene-post-processing to generate missing render data.
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APIs are provided for C and C++. There are various bindings to other languages (C#, Java, Python, Delphi, D). Assimp also runs on Android and iOS.
Additionally, assimp features various __mesh post processing tools__: normals and tangent space generation, triangulation, vertex cache locality optimization, removal of degenerate primitives and duplicate vertices, sorting by primitive type, merging of redundant materials and many more.

### Latest Doc's ###
Please check the latest documents at [Asset-Importer-Lib-Doc](https://assimp-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). 

### Get involved ###
This is the development repo containing the latest features and bugfixes. For productive use though, we recommend one of the stable releases available from [Github Assimp Releases](https://github.com/assimp/assimp/releases).
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You find a bug in the docs? Use [Doc-Repo](https://github.com/assimp/assimp-docs).
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Please check our Wiki as well: https://github.com/assimp/assimp/wiki

If you want to check our Model-Database, use the following repo: https://github.com/assimp/assimp-mdb

#### Supported file formats ####
You can find the complete list of supported file-formats [here](https://github.com/assimp/assimp/blob/master/doc/Fileformats.md)

### Building ###
Take a look into the https://github.com/assimp/assimp/blob/master/Build.md file. We are available in vcpkg, and our build system is CMake; if you used CMake before there is a good chance you know what to do.

### Ports ###
* [Android](port/AndroidJNI/README.md)
* [Python](port/PyAssimp/README.md)
* [.NET](https://bitbucket.org/Starnick/assimpnet/src/master/)
* [Pascal](port/AssimpPascal/Readme.md)
* [Javascript (Alpha)](https://github.com/makc/assimp2json)
* [Javascript/Node.js Interface](https://github.com/kovacsv/assimpjs)
* [Unity 3d Plugin](https://ricardoreis.net/trilib-2/)
* [Unreal Engine Plugin](https://github.com/irajsb/UE4_Assimp/)
* [JVM](https://github.com/kotlin-graphics/assimp) Full jvm port (current [status](https://github.com/kotlin-graphics/assimp/wiki/Status))
* [HAXE-Port](https://github.com/longde123/assimp-haxe) The Assimp-HAXE-port.
* [Rust](https://github.com/jkvargas/russimp)

### Other tools ###
[open3mod](https://github.com/acgessler/open3mod) is a powerful 3D model viewer based on Assimp's import and export abilities.

#### Repository structure ####
Open Asset Import Library is implemented in C++. The directory structure looks like:

	/code		Source code
	/contrib	Third-party libraries
	/doc		Documentation (doxysource and pre-compiled docs)
	/fuzz           Contains the test-code for the Google-Fuzzer project
	/include	Public header C and C++ header files
	/scripts 	Scripts used to generate the loading code for some formats
	/port		Ports to other languages and scripts to maintain those.
	/test		Unit- and regression tests, test suite of models
	/tools		Tools (old assimp viewer, command line `assimp`)
	/samples	A small number of samples to illustrate possible
                        use cases for Assimp

The source code is organized in the following way:

	code/Common			The base implementation for importers and the infrastructure
	code/PostProcessing		The post-processing steps
	code/AssetLib/<FormatName>	Implementation for import and export for the format

### Where to get help ###
To find our documentation, visit [our website](https://assimp.org/) or check out [Wiki](https://github.com/assimp/assimp/wiki)

If the docs don't solve your problem, you can:
- Ask on [StackOverflow with the assimp-tag](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/assimp?sort=newest). 
- Ask on [Assimp-Community on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Assimp/)
- Ask a question at [The Assimp-Discussion Board](https://github.com/assimp/assimp/discussions)
- Nothing has worked? File a question or an issue-report at [The Assimp-Issue Tracker](https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues)

Open Asset Import Library is a library to load various 3d file formats into a shared, in-memory format. It supports more than __40 file formats__ for import and a growing selection of file formats for export.

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### Contributing ###
Contributions to assimp are highly appreciated. The easiest way to get involved is to submit
a pull request with your changes against the main repository's `master` branch.

## Contributors

### Code Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [[Contribute](CONTRIBUTING.md)].

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### Financial Contributors

Become a financial contributor and help us sustain our community. [[Contribute](https://opencollective.com/assimp/contribute)]

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#### Organizations

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### License ###
Our license is based on the modified, __3-clause BSD__-License.

An _informal_ summary is: do whatever you want, but include Assimp's license text with your product -
and don't sue us if our code doesn't work. Note that, unlike LGPLed code, you may link statically to Assimp.
For the legal details, see the `LICENSE` file.

### Why this name ###
Sorry, we're germans :-), no english native speakers ...