Tundra is a scriptable 3D internet application development platform. It is aimed primarily for application developers, as a platform for creating networked 3D worlds with customized content.

Tundra is licensed under Apache 2.0 and based on Qt and Ogre3D.

Tundra uses the traditional client-server architecture for networking. After installing you will find the Tundra executable from the install directory, run Tundra --help for available command line parameters.

This executable can be configured to run a set of C++ and JavaScript plugins. You can create your own configuration file, or use the ones provided. Some examples: Tundra --config viewer.xml - Starts Tundra with "viewer" set of plugins which provides an user interface for connecting to Tundra servers

Tundra --config plugins.xml --headless --server --port 6565 --protocol udp - Starts Tundra with the default plugin set in server mode serving UDP connections at port 6565

The Tundra server mode is used for standalone-mode editing and viewing Tundra documents. To host a 3D scene, run Tundra in dedicated mode using the --server and --headless command line parameters. The Tundra viewer mode is the client that is used to connect to a server.

See the scenes folder for example demo scenes and applications. F.e.x. Tundra --file scenes/Avatar/Scene.txml

Tundra source code is available at the realXtend github repository. This repository hosts various branches for new and old viewers from the realXtend team, so be sure to checkout tundra2 branch after cloning.

Tundra uses CMake as its build system and depends on various other open source projects. See more from doc/dependencies.txt.

For Windows Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 build environments are supported. Here are the quick steps for VS2008 after you have cloned the git repo. Same steps apply to VS2010, just with different batch scripts.

1. Install CMake. (>= 2.8 is recommended)
2. Run win_update_deps_vs2008.bat to acquire the prebuilt dependencies.
3. Run win_cmake_vs2008.bat, this will generate a .sln solution file.
4. If you want to customize the build, go through the CMakeBuildConfig.txt and run win_cmake_vs2008.bat again.
5. Open the solution file with Visual Studio 2008 and build.

See also doc/build-windows.txt

See doc/build-linux.txt for more details. Also check out the distro-specific build scripts in /tools.

More information about Tundra can be found online at http://www.realxtend.org/doxygen/.

You can find Tundra developers from IRC #realxtend-dev @ freenode. Also check out the user-oriented mailing list and the developer-oriented mailing list.

New releases are announced on the mailing lists and at the realXtend blog. The releases are uploaded to Google Code project site, that is used for hosting downloads. http://code.google.com/p/realxtend-naali/downloads/list