cgltf

Single-file/stb-style C glTF loader

Usage

Loading from file:

#include "cgltf.h"

cgltf_options options = {0};
cgltf_data* data = NULL;
cgltf_result result = cgltf_parse_file(&options, "scene.gltf", &data);
if (result == cgltf_result_success)
{
	/* TODO make awesome stuff */
	cgltf_free(data);
}

Loading from memory:

#include "cgltf.h"

void* buf; /* Pointer to glb or gltf file data */
size_t size; /* Size of the file data */

cgltf_options options = {0};
cgltf_data* data = NULL;
cgltf_result result = cgltf_parse(&options, buf, size, &data);
if (result == cgltf_result_success)
{
	/* TODO make awesome stuff */
	cgltf_free(data);
}

Note that cgltf does not load the contents of extra files such as buffers or images into memory by default. You'll need to read these files yourself using URIs from data.buffers[] or data.images[] respectively. For buffer data, you can alternatively call cgltf_load_buffers, which will use FILE* APIs to open and read buffer files.

For more in-depth documentation and a description of the public interface refer to the top of the cgltf.h file.

Support

cgltf supports core glTF 2.0:

glb (binary files) and gltf (JSON files)
meshes (including accessors, buffer views, buffers)
materials (including textures, samplers, images)
scenes and nodes
skins
animations
cameras
morph targets

cgltf also supports some glTF extensions:

KHR_lights_punctual
KHR_materials_pbrSpecularGlossiness
KHR_materials_unlit
KHR_texture_transform

cgltf does not yet support unlisted extensions or extra data.

Building

The easiest approach is to integrate the cgltf.h header file into your project. If you are unfamiliar with single-file C libraries (also known as stb-style libraries), this is how it goes:

Include cgltf.h where you need the functionality.
Have exactly one source file that defines CGLTF_IMPLEMENTATION before including cgltf.h.
Use the cgltf functions as described above.

Contributing

Everyone is welcome to contribute to the library. If you find any problems, you can submit them using GitHub's issue system. If you want to contribute code, you should fork the project and then send a pull request.

Dependencies

None.

C headers being used:

#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

Note, this library has a copy of the JSMN JSON parser embedded in its source.

Testing

There is a Python script in the test/ folder that retrieves the glTF 2.0 sample files from the glTF-Sample-Models repository (https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Models/tree/master/2.0) and runs the library against all gltf and glb files.

There is also a llvm-fuzz test in fuzz/. See http://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html for more information.