5l1v3r1 / cppcraft

Procedurally generated world simulator

cppcraft

Installation

Pull repo, compile for your OS using makefile

Win64:

Install mingw-builds (dual target) to a folder that makes sense, ie. c:\MingW64. Include c:\mingw64 in PATH enviroment variable (google it). Open a console in the cppcraft repo folder, execute: mingw32-make -j8

Should compile right out of the box for windows (And the .exe is static)

Linux64:

For linux you need to install xorg-dev, libbass for linux x64 and you need to compile GLFW3 BASS: www.un4seen.com GLFW: http://glfw.org

(I don't have alot of experience with linux!)

The workspaces are for CodeLite IDE, however feel free to use any IDE you want to

Generating a world

Unfortunately the generator is currently for windows only. Star the generator, execute '.all' just to test. '.all' is a batch file, as seen in the batch folder. The generator will output to a specific folder that may not exist already. Create the world folder (I believe the structure Worlds/test in the Debug/ folder, same as game client) If the folder doesn't exist, the generator will still work, the game will be started, and nothing will show up except a blue sky. If the world was successfully created it should load a small area.

Once the smaller area is created, you might want to create a bigger world: .huge

This operation typically takes 20-30 minutes.

Playing the game

config.ini contains all the configuration variables. You typically want to adjust screen size, fullscreen, number of worker threads used and lighting ray length. Number of lighting rays & length affect performance greatly on the CPU side. Screen size affects GPU greatly. When not debugging or making rapid changes use windowed mode, otherwise fullscreen offers better experience.