MineClone

The purpose of this project is to learn more about architecture in general, this is, main loops, layers, inputs and these sort of stuff present in a interactive real time software. I have another two projects being dev, one for Vulkan and another for Raytracing, i surely will mix the knowledge of those three projects in one big pbr renderer.

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@-The Minecraft map clone is in the src folder inside SandBox folder.

@-Images and videos below.

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Briefing: This kind of framework was made in order to make a Minecraft map clone, therefore, the tools were implemented to accomplish this goal.

The idea was to make a program where the user can easily set (render, maybe?) a block and this block would be spawned with all optimizations (bit packing, greedy algorithm meshing, culling etc) but letting a lot of stuff to the user, thus, giving it a finer granularity.

This program has two minor bugs (chunk divisions and greedy meshing) that i would love to fix it but unfortunately i want to study the graphics area and this project would take some time to start the graphics part and it would not have room for a lot of techniques, that's why i'm also stopping the development of it for now.

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Features: Greedy Meshing Algorithm. (naive approach, it really needs a remake more related to the articles)

Texture, Normals, Postions and data for texture tilling factor are all packed, thus leading at 4 bytes per vertex.

Easy to set a voxel with texture, to make a terrain using noise, to remove or place blocks using Trace functions etc.

Clean user workflow.

Easy to add ImGui code for debugging or so.

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Compatibility:

Windows/OpenGL

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Dependencies: Glad,

Imgui,

stbi.

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HOW TO BUILD:

For now, you just need to have premake (https://github.com/premake/premake-core) and execute premake5.exe with your configuration.

e.g in a .bat file for visual studio 2017: call vendor\bin\premake\premake5.exe vs2017

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Controls:

F1 - Wireframe mode

F2 - Lock/Unlock mouse

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IMAGES:

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VIDEOS: