README.md

glTF™ (GL Transmission Format) is a royalty-free specification for the efficient transmission and loading of 3D scenes and models by applications. glTF minimizes both the size of 3D assets, and the runtime processing needed to unpack and use those assets. glTF defines an extensible, common publishing format for 3D content tools and services that streamlines authoring workflows and enables interoperable use of content across the industry.

Specification

• glTF Specification, 2.0 (or all specification versions)
• glTF Extension Registry

Please provide spec feedback and community updates by submitting issues. For quick questions, use gitter.

Quickstart

Overview

For developers

• Sample models for testing runtime engines and content pipeline tools.
  • 100,000+ models under Creative Commons license on Sketchfab (check license for individual models).
• Drag-and-drop validator for verifying correctness of existing glTF files.

For artists

Blender exporter for creating and converting models with glTF 2.0.

Preview tools:

• Sketchfab
• BabylonJS Sandbox
• Drag-and-drop viewer

Contents

• glTF Tools
  • Converters and Exporters
  • Optimizers
  • Validators
  • Editors and Modeling Tools
  • Applications
  • Loaders and Viewers
    • WebGL Engines
    • WebGL Sample Code
    • Game Engines
  • Languages
  • Utilities
• Stack Overflow
• Presentations and Articles
  • Intros
  • All Presentations and Articles

glTF Tools

Converters and Exporters

Tool	Input	Output	Description
Khronos Group Blender Exporter	—		Official exporter for Blender
Unity Exporter (Sketchfab fork)	—		Unity editor wizard that exports to glTF Format
Sketchup export and import	—		Separate extensions for export and import
obj2gltf	OBJ		Command-line converter
blendergltf	—		glTF exporter for Blender aimed at streaming scenes to other applications
Assimp	Multiple		General-purpose online conversion pipeline
PiXYZ Studio	Multiple		Interactively prepare & optimize any CAD data
COLLADA2GLTF	COLLADA		Official command-line converter, with updates for glTF 2.0 in progress
Cesium drag-and-drop converter	OBJ, COLLADA		Online drag and drop converter
batchgltf	COLLADA		Batch converter with GUI
FBX-glTF	FBX		Plug-in and command-line converter
jgltf-obj	OBJ		Java programmatic and command-line converters
Docker collada2gltf	COLLADA		Docker container for Python web service, built on COLLADA2GLTF
collada2gltf-web-service	COLLADA		Node.js web service, built on COLLADA2GLTF
Node.js collada2gltf	COLLADA		Node.js programmatic wrapper for COLLADA2GLTF
osm2cesium	OSM		Extracts buildings in OpenStreetMap and converts them to glTF

Optimizers

Tool	Status	Description
glTF Pipeline		Official Node.js command-line tool for optimizing glTF assets
gltf2glb		Python tool to convert glTF to Binary glTF
binary-gltf-utils		Node.js tool to convert glTF to Binary glTF

Validators

Tool	Status	Description
glTF Validator		Official command-line and drag-and-top tool to validate glTF assets against the specification

Editors and Modeling Tools

Tool	Status	Description
glTF VSCode Extension		Cross-platform JSON schema validation and previews for glTF 2.0 and 1.0
Blender Importer		Blender importer for glTF 2.0 (alpha)

Applications

Application	Status	Description
Paint 3D by Microsoft		3D creation tool
Remix 3D by Microsoft		Share and print 3D creations
Sketchfab		Platform to publish, share & discover 3D online and in VR
Wordpress (plugin)		Inline glTF renderer for WordPress
Archilogic		Web-based 3D platform for architecture and interiors
Aspose.3D		File Format APIs for creating, editing, and converting over 100 file formats

Loaders and Viewers

WebGL Engines

To compare WebGL-based glTF loaders, see gltf-test.

Engine	Status	Scope	Related
three.js (loader)		All	Drag-and-drop viewer, <gltf-model/> component
BabylonJS (loader)		All	Sandbox / viewer
Cesium (loader)		All	Drag-and-drop viewer, tutorial
OSG.JS (loader)		All
Grimoire.js (loader)		Geometry and materials, partial animation
A-Frame (loader)		All	Experimental glTF 2.0 support
PEX (loader)		Geometry and materials
GLBoost (loader)		?	Examples
xml3d.js (loader)		Geometry and materials
X3DOM (loader)		Geometry and materials
xeogl (loader)		Geometry and materials	Tutorial

WebGL Sample Code

Sample	Status	Description
Sample glTF loader with WebGL PBR shader		Engine-agnostic reference implementation for PBR shading with WebGL in glTF 2.0 (source code)

Game Engines

Tool	Status	Description
Unity Loader		Unity3D library for exporting, loading, parsing, and rendering glTF assets
Godot Game Engine		Godot 3.0 fully supports glTF import

Languages

JavaScript / Node.js

Tool	Status	Description
gltf-viewer		Web component to display glTF models on a website
minimal-gltf-loader		A minimal, engine-agnostic JavaScript glTF Loader, with a raw WebGL 2 renderer example
gltf-walker		Convenience library for processing glTF
RedCube.js		glTF viewer without dependencies

C++

Tool	Status	Description
Tiny glTF loader		Header only C++ glTF parsing library, with Alembic→glTF and CyHair->glTF converters
yocto-gltf		Single file, header only, C++ glTF loading/writing automatically generated from the spec
glTF2-loader		C++14 glTF (2.0 only) parsing library, by Lugdunum3D
gltfpp		glTF 2.0 loader for C++14
TGen		Simple C++ Tangent Generator
Cinder		Work-in-progress glTF importer
nvpro-pipeline		Research rendering pipeline by NVIDIA for minimizing CPU cost
AssetKit	?	3D asset importer/exporter/util library

C++ and Vulkan

Tool	Status	Description
Laugh Engine		Vulkan PBR and IBL renderer
Lugdunum3D		A modern cross-platform 3D rendering engine built with Vulkan and modern C++14
UX3D Engine		Cross-platform multi-threaded Vulkan 3D Engine with glTF 2.0 import and export

C#

Tool	Status	Description
C# glTF loader		C# reference loader for glTF
Aspose.3D for .NET		Import, export, and convert glTF

Go

Tool	Status	Description
gltf		go library for marshaling and unmarshaling glTF

Rust

Tool	Status	Description
Loader		A crate for loading glTF 2.0
Viewer		glTF 2.0 Viewer written in Rust

Haxe

Tool	Status	Description
haxe-gltf		A Haxe library for reading glTF

Java

• JglTF - Java libraries for glTF
  • jgltf-impl - Classes representing a glTF model, auto-generated from the schema
  • jgltf-model - Classes for reading, processing, converting and writing glTF
  • jgltf-obj - A library for converting OBJ to glTF
  • jgltf-viewer - A viewer for glTF, with different implementations:
    • jgltf-viewer-jogl - A glTF viewer based on JOGL
    • jgltf-viewer-lwjgl - A glTF viewer based on LWJGL version 2
  • jgltf-browser - An application combining the above libraries

Ada

Tool	Status	Description
Orka		The OpenGL 4.5 Rendering Kernel in Ada

TypeScript

Tool	Status	Description
gltf-typescript-generator		CLI to generate a TypeScript interface for glTF

Utilities

• gltf-utilities - JavaScript utility library to help load glTF
• wetzel - Generate Markdown documentation from JSON Schema

Stack Overflow

• glTF tagged questions

Presentations and Articles

Intros

• glTF 2.0 Launch by Neil Trevett. June 2017
• glTF Webinar (video, slides) by Marco Hutter. February 2017
• glTF Brief by Tony Parisi, FormVR and Amanda Watson, Oculus. October 2016

Tutorials

• glTF Tutorials
• Physically-Based Rendering: From Theory to glTF

All Presentations and Articles

• State of glTF 2.0 for WebVR Devs by Don McCurdy, Google. September 2017
• glTF Exporter in three.js and A-Frame by Fernando Serrano. August 2017
• SIGGRAPH 2017 glTF BOF video. August 2017
  • glTF 2.0 and Community Update: Tony Parisi, Unity, and Patrick Cozzi, Cesium
  • Microsoft update - Paint 3D, View 3D, 3D in Office and one more thing…: Saurabh Bhatia and Gary Hsu, Microsoft
  • glTF VSCode editor: Ed Mackey, AGI
  • Autodesk Forge and glTF: Nop Jiarathanakul, Autodesk
  • Three.js and A-Frame update: Don McCurdy, Google and Ricardo Cabello, Google
  • Introduction to geometry compression on the web with Draco: Michael Hemmer and Jamieson Brettle, Google
  • WebGL PBR reference implementation: Scott Nagy, Microsoft, and Mohamad Moneimne, Cesium
  • Sketchfab update: Aurelien Chatelain, Sketchfab
  • glTF 2.0 Export in InstantUV: Max Limper, Fraunhofer
• Physically-Based Rendering in Cesium by Mohamad Moneimne. August 2017
• Why we should all support glTF 2.0 as THE standard asset exchange format for game engines by Juan Linietsky. August 2017
• Exporting glTF 2.0 from Maya LT by Don McCurdy. June 2017
• glTF 2.0: PBR Materials by Saurabh Bhatia. May 2017
• glTF Workflow for a Saturday Night by Diego F. Goberna. April 2017
• 2017 GDC WebGL/WebVR/glTF Meetup YouTube recording. March 2017
• Reach the Largest Gaming Platform of All: The Web. WebGL, WebVR and glTF. March 2017
• PBR-ready glTF in instant3Dhub / instantUV by Max Limper. March 2017
• Call for feedback on glTF 2.0 by Neil Trevett. February 2017
• Improve expressiveness of WebGL with the topic 3D file format glTF now! (in Japanese) by Yuki Shimada(@emadurandal), WebGL advent calendar 2016 at Qiita. December 2016
• A new 3D horizon: glTF import and export with Archilogic by Martin Splitt. December 2016
• Bringing 3D to everyone through open standards by Forest W. Gouin and Jean Paoli. October 2016
• Using Quantization with 3D Models by Rob Taglang. August 2016
• glTF and Mobile VR: Inclusive standards for a 3D world. Amanda Watson, Oculus, WebGL + glTF BOF. July 2016
• glTF Update and Roadmap. Tony Parisi, WebGL + glTF BOF. July 2016
• PBR in glTF: Current State. Max Limper, Johannes Behr, and Timo Sturm, WebGL + glTF BOF. July 2016
• glTF: The Runtime Asset Format for GL-based Applications. July 2016
• glTF working group updates (slides, video). Patrick Cozzi and Tony Parisi, WebGL + glTF BOF. March 2016
• FBX to/from glTF (slides, video). Cyrille Fauvel, WebGL + glTF BOF. March 2016
• Khronos Group glTF Webinar. Neil Trevett, Virtual AR Community meeting. October 2015
• An Introduction to glTF 1.0. October 2015
• The state of WebGL and glTF. Patrick Cozzi, The Graphical Web. September 2015
• glTF ecosystem and mesh compression update. Khronos 3D Formats Working Group, SIGGRAPH 2015. August 2015
• glTF and the WebGL Art Pipeline. Tony Parisi, WebGL Meetup. March 2015
• Writing an FBX importer / Exporter plug-in. Cyrille Fauvel. January 2015
• glTF Tips for Artists. Branden Coker. December 2014
• 3D for the Modern Web: Declarative 3D and glTF. Brian Coughlin. Summer 2014
• glTF: Designing an Open-Standard Runtime Asset Format. Fabrice Robinet et al, GPU Pro 5. May 2014
• Building a WebGL Santa with Cesium and glTF. Patrick Cozzi. December 2013
• glTF update. Tony Parisi. August 2013
• How I got involved in glTF and Khronos. Patrick Cozzi, WebGL Meetup. March 2013

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