Meshfile library

About

Meshfile is a simple C library for reading and writing 3D mesh file formats, with zero dependencies. It reads/writes:

Indexed triangle meshes, multiple objects per file, with a number of optional pre-defined vertex attributes. No quads, n-gons, strips, or fans. See struct mf_mesh, struct mf_face
Materials with a number of common pre-defined material attributes, each optionally combined with a texture map (filename/path). See struct mf_material, struct mf_mtlattr, struct mf_texmap.
Optional transformation node hierarchy, which can be ignored in most cases when not needed, by passing MF_APPLY_XFORM to mf_load. See struct mf_node.

File formats

Wavefront OBJ
JTF (Just Triangle Faces)
glTF (OpenGL Transmission Format)
3DS (3D Studio scene)
STL (Stereolithography)

Meshfile is very simple to use, and comes with two example programs:

meshview: an OpenGL 3D model viewer.
meshconv: a converter between any of the supported 3D file formats.

License

This program is free software. Feel free to run, modify and/or redistribute under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License v3, or at your option any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. See GNU LGPL v3 for details.

Download

The latest meshfile release is meshfile 0.2: gzipped tar / zip

All available releases can be found here, or at the github releases page.

You can also obtain the latest source code directly from the git repo: git clone https://github.com/jtsiomb/meshfile.git