Overview¶
The project spica is for a cross-platform physically based rendering engine. This program employs a plug-in system and is easy-to-build for the user convenience!
Installation¶
Requirements¶
The project is implemented and tested with the following compilers that supports C++17.
- GNU C++ compiler (v7.3.0 or higher)
- Microsoft Visual C++ compiler (MSVC 2017)
I confirmed the programs can be build on the following environments. The build will be successful also on other environments if you compile them with the compilers above.
- Windows 10 64bit
- MacOS X High Sierra
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Dependencies¶
All the dependencies are included by Git’s submodule system (and they can be immediately installed!).
Build command¶
You can build the programs with CMake (v3.6.0 or higher). For UNIX users, the following command will build them.
$ git clone --depth=10 https://github.com/tatsy.spica.git
$ cd spica && mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -D SPICA_BUILD_MAIN=ON [-D WITH_SSE=ON] ..
$ make -j4
$ make install # No sudo required!
Usage¶
Executable binary spica is made by the build typically in build/bin. In this directory, run spica as the following command.
$ ./spica --input INPUT XML [--threads NUM_THREADS]
You can find sample scene files (written with XML) in GitHub. The scene files can be written as that of Mitsuba renderer (but only selected functions are supported).