https://github.com/zenustech/zeno
ZEn NOde system - a simulation & rendering engine in nodes
https://github.com/zenustech/zeno
3d cpp dataflow-programming graphics node-editor rendering simulation vfx visualization
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ZEn NOde system - a simulation & rendering engine in nodes
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/zenustech/zeno
- Owner: zenustech
- License: mpl-2.0
- Created: 2021-03-27T15:01:30.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-05-13T10:25:07.000Z (about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-13T11:31:24.433Z (about 1 month ago)
- Topics: 3d, cpp, dataflow-programming, graphics, node-editor, rendering, simulation, vfx, visualization
- Language: C++
- Homepage: http://zenustech.com
- Size: 568 MB
- Stars: 1,317
- Watchers: 36
- Forks: 154
- Open Issues: 34
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: docs/code_of_conduct.md
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# ZENO node system
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[Download](https://github.com/zenustech/zeno/releases) | [Repo](https://github.com/zenustech/zeno) | [About us](https://zenustech.com) | [Docs](https://doc.zenustech.com/) | [Videos](https://space.bilibili.com/263032155) | [Q&A Forum](https://github.com/zenustech/zeno/discussions) | [Build from source](https://github.com/zenustech/zeno/blob/master/BUILD.md) | [FAQs](https://github.com/zenustech/zeno/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md) | [Contributor Guidelines](https://github.com/zenustech/zeno/blob/master/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md) | [Bug report](https://github.com/zenustech/zeno/issues)
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Open-source node system framework, to change your algorithmic code into useful tools to create much more complicated simulations!
ZENO is an open-source, Node based 3D system able to produce cinematic physics effects at High Efficiency, it was designed for large scale simulations and has been tested on complex setups.
Aside of its simulation Tools, ZENO provides necessary visualization nodes for users to import and run simulations if you feel that the current software you are using is too slow.
- [Contributor guidelines](docs/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [How to build from source](BUILD.md)
- [FAQ & troubleshooting](docs/FAQ.md)
- [Introduction on Zeno](docs/introduction.md)
- [Video tutorial series](https://space.bilibili.com/263032155)
## Features
Integrated Toolbox, from volumetric geometry process tools (OpenVDB), to state-of-art, commercially robust, highly optimized physics solvers and visualization nodes, and various VFX and simulation solutions based on our nodes (provided by .zsg file in `graphs/` folder).
## New
Multi Importance Sampling
## Gallery
Fig.1 - Cloth simulation
Fig.2 - Fluid simulation
Fig.3 - Rigid simulation
Fig.4 - Biological simulation
Fig.5 - Procedural material
Fig.6 - Procedural modeling
Fig.7 - Human rendering
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25457920/234779878-a2f43b2f-5b9b-463b-950b-8842dad0c651.MP4
# End-user Installation
## Download binary release
Go to the [release page](https://github.com/zenustech/zeno/releases/), and click Assets -> download `zeno-windows-20xx.x.x.zip` (`zeno-linux-20xx.x.x.tar.gz` for Linux).
Then, extract this archive, and simply run `000_start.bat` (`./000_start.sh` for Linux), then the node editor window will shows up if everything is working well.
Apart from the GitHub release page, we also offer binary download from our official site for convinence of Chinese users: https://zenustech.com/d/
## How to play
There are some example graphs in the `misc/graphs/` folder, you may open them in the editor and have fun!
Hint: To run an animation for 100 frames, change the `1` on the bottom-right of the viewport to `100`, then click `Run`.
Also MMB to drag in the node editor, LMB click on sockets to create connections.
MMB drag in the viewport to orbit camera, Shift+MMB to pan camera.
More details are available in [our official tutorial](https://doc.zenustech.com/) and [my video tutorials](https://space.bilibili.com/263032155).
## Bug report
If you find the binary version didn't worked properly or some error message has been thrown on your machine, please let me know by opening an [issue](https://github.com/zenustech/zeno/issues) on GitHub, thanks for you support!
# Developer Build
To build ZENO from source, you need:
- GCC 9+ or MSVC 19.28+, and CMake 3.16+ to build ZENO.
- Qt 5.14+ to build the ZENO Qt editor.
- (Optional) TBB for parallel support.
- (Optional) OpenVDB for volume nodes.
- (Optional) Eigen3 for solver nodes.
- (Optional) CGAL for geometry nodes.
- (Optional) CUDA 11.6 for GPU nodes.
> Hint: WSL is not recommended because of its limited GUI and OpenGL support.
- [Click me for detailed build instructions](BUILD.md)
# Miscellaneous
## Contributors
Thank you to all the people who have already contributed to ZENO!
[](https://github.com/zenustech/zeno/graphs/contributors)
- [Contributor guidelines and helps](docs/CONTRIBUTING.md)
## Write your own extension!
See [`projects/FBX`](https://github.com/zenustech/zeno/projects/FBX) for an example on how to write custom nodes in ZENO.
## Legacy version of Zeno
Currently the [`master`](https://github.com/zenustech/tree/master) branch is for Zeno 2.0.
You may find Zeno 1.0 in the [`zeno_old_stable`](https://github.com/zenustech/tree/zeno_old_stable) branch.
## License
ZENO is licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0, see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for more information.
ZENO have also used many third-party libraries, some of which has little modifications. Their licenses could be found at [docs/licenses](docs/licenses).
## Contact us
You may contact us via WeChat:
* @zhxx1987: shinshinzhang
* @archibate: tanh233
... or sending E-mail:
* @archibate: [email protected]
Jobs offering: zenustech.com/jobs