8. Information for developers

8.1. Preparing the development environment

Use Visual Studio 2017 for the IDE.

First, download and install following libraries (You can download from our website at http://3dtracker.org/downloads.html):

1. OpenCV 3.2.0 (library for image processing)
2. PCL 1.8.0 (library for point cloud processing)
3. Kinect for Windows SDK v1.8 (library for Kinect v1 camera and backward compatibility)
4. 3DTracker Developer Tools (= librealsense, intel realsense camera library; Bullet physics, physics simulation library; freeglut, free opengl utility toolkit)
5. (optional) NIDAQmx (National instrument device library; used for TTL signal)

Second, add the following folder to the environment variable “PATH”:

• C:\Program Files\3DTrackerDevTools\bin
• C:\opencv320\build\x64\vc14\bin
• C:\Program Files\PCL 1.8.0\bin
• C:\Program Files\OpenNI2\Redist

8.2. Programming Style

Basically follow https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html

8.3. More Information

Contact us through the forum (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/3dtracker).