Voxelman

Plugin-based engine written in D language.

Voxelman plugin pack includes plugins for a voxel-based game(s).

Launcher will allow for any plugin combination, while master-server will host all plugins and online server list.

Screenshots and videos

Twitter

Imgur album

See releases for binaries.

See youtube channel for videos.

Contacts

• Report issues here
• Submit pull requests here
• Edit wiki

Join Discord servers:

• D language discord
• Voxelgamedev discord

Installing game

• Download latest build
• Unpack
• Follow instructions below

Compiler

Any D compiler with frontend version of 2.075 and newer.

Requirements

• OpenGL 3.1 support
• Multicore CPUs are utilized
• Memory consumption

<table> <thead> <tr> <th rowspan="2">Map name</th> <th colspan="2">10 (21^3) chunks</th> <th colspan="2">20 (41^3) chunks</th> <th colspan="2">30 (61^3) chunks</th> </tr> <tr> <th>RAM</th> <th>VRAM</th> <th>RAM</th> <th>VRAM</th> <th>RAM</th> <th>VRAM</th> </tr> </thead> <tr> <td>Default heightmap terrain</td> <td>300MB</td><td>150MB</td> <td>800MB</td><td>200MB</td> <td>1.8GB</td><td>400MB</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Default flat terrain</td> <td>80MB</td><td>18MB</td> <td>160MB</td><td>80MB</td> <td>400MB</td><td>170MB</td> </tr> <tr> <td>King's landing</td> <td>200MB</td><td>180MB</td> <td>500MB</td><td>550MB</td> <td>600MB</td><td>700MB</td> </tr> </table>

Starting game from launcher

Single player

• Start launcher
• Press New in worlds tab to create new world
• Select new world and press Start

Multiplayer

• To start a server select world and press Server button
• Connect to your server in Connect tab of Play menu
• Select local server and press Connect at the bottom
• To stop the server, go to the Code menu and hit Stop button of your server instance

Starting game from command line

• Executable must be started from builds/default folder
• voxelman --app=[client|server|combined] --world_name="new world" --name="Player"
• You can override any config option with a switch of a form: --option=value
• Array config options are passed using comma between items. Like --resolution=1280,800

Server commands

• Can be inputted from server console inside launcher Debug menu, or from client's in-game console
• tp <x> [<y>] <z> | tp <player name> - teleports to position or other player's location
• tp u|d|l|r|f|b <num_blocks> - teleports player in choosen direction
• spawn teleports to starting world position
• spawn set sets world spawn
• dim_spawn teleports to dimension spawn pos
• dim_spawn set sets dimension spawn pos

Controls (Can be changed in config/client.sdl)

• Q to lock mouse
• WASD, LCtrl, Space to move. LShift to boost
• Right and Left to switch tools
• R to rotate blocks
• RMB to place
• LMB to remove
• MMB to pick block
• ~ open console
• [ and ] to change view distance
• Keypad - and + to change movement speed
• U disable position update
• F flying mode
• N noclip
• KP+, KP- change movement speed
• F2 chunk grid
• F5 update all meshes
• C toggle frustum culling
• Y toggle wireframe mode

Building from sources

Installing compilers

Linux

sudo wget http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/d-apt/files/d-apt.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/d-apt.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y --allow-unauthenticated install --reinstall d-apt-keyring && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential dmd-bin dub

Windows

• Compilers https://dlang.org/download.html
• Visual studio https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/

Installing dependencies

Linux

sudo apt-get install liblmdb-dev liblz4-dev libglfw3-dev libenet-dev

Windows

Download compiled static libs from here

Unpack lib folder inside voxelman folder.

Compile

git clone --depth=50 https://github.com/MrSmith33/voxelman voxelman
cd voxelman
git submodule update --init --recursive
dub build

With sources and dependencies you can now also compile & run via launcher.

Run

cd builds/default
voxelman --app=combined