SAIGA is a lightweight OpenGL utility and rendering framework. It was successfully used as a game engine for Redie and in many privat and university projects.

• 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.

• g++ 5.4 or newer
• Visual Studio 2013 or newer
• clang++ 3.8 or newer

• Ubuntu 16 64 bit and similiar Linux distros

• Fedora 25 64 bit or newer

  Other Linux systems should work by installing one of the supported compilers and building the dependencies from source.

• Windows Vista/7/8/10 32 and 64 bit

• All NVIDIA and AMD cards supporting atleast OpenGL 3.3.
• Intel on chip graphic processor with linux mesa drivers or similiar windows driver.
• For the CUDA samples a NVIDIA GPU with compute capability 3 or newer is required.

• OpenGL 3.3
• GLEW or glbinding
• GLM
• freetype

Window creation and GL-Context managment

• SDL
• GLFW
• Mesa EGL

Sound loading and playback

• OpenAL
• ALUT
• Opus

Video Recording

• FFMPEG

Model Loading

• ASSIMP

Image loading

• PNG
• FreeImage + FreeImagePlus

Utility

• Eigen
• CUDA

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

  For Ubuntu and other Debian-based distributions:

  sudo apt-get install libglew-dev libglm-dev libfreetype6-dev libsdl2-dev libpng-dev
  

  For Fedora:

  sudo dnf install glew-devel glm-devel freetype-devel SDL2-devel libXrandr-devel libXcursor-devel libXinerama-devel
  

• Build Saiga

cd saiga
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

• Running the samples

cd saiga/bin
./simpleSDLWindow

• Download and compile the dependencies from source. (For a quick start only get glew,glm,freetype,sdl2 and png).
• Install the dependencies or copy them to a common location with the following structure:

<your_dependencies_dir>
<your_dependencies_dir>/include      <- Put all header files here
<your_dependencies_dir>/lib          <- Put all .lib files here
<your_dependencies_dir>/bin          <- Put all .dll files here

Use cmake to create the Visual Studio solution with the following cmake variable set:

DEPENDENCIES_DIR=<your_dependencies_dir>

• Compile the solution with Visual Studio.
• saiga.dll and all executables will be placed for example in saiga/bin/RelWithDebugInfo.
• When running the samples make sure the working directory is saiga/bin instead of saiga/bin/RelWithDebugInfo.

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