n3rdium / pycraft

A Minecraft clone written in python and glfw/OpenGL.

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This game is undergoing a major remake and will be 'unplayable' for some time.

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A Minecraft clone written in python.

Controls

Move Forward  : W
Move Left     : A
Move Backward : S
Move Right    : D
Lock mouse    : E
Jump          : Space
Sprint        : Ctrl
Crouch        : Shift
Break Block   : Left Click
Place Block   : Right Click
Change Block  : Scroll

Running PyCraft

To run PyCraft, run the following code:

git clone https://github.com/n3rdium/PyCraft.git
cd PyCraft
python launch.py

(assuming that you already have git and python installed)

Known issues

• Please let us know if you find any.

pycraft's Issues

The Framerate of the game drops tremendously as the number of chunks increases.

The game's framerate deteriorates as we go further exploring the world.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Run the game
2. Move around a lot in one direction, allow many chunks to form.

Expected behavior
The game should run smoothly even when we go further into the world.

Solution
We need to remove chunks which are too far away from the memory, maybe even create a separate renderer for each chunk.

The game hangs while loading chunks.

Describe the bug
The FPS meter goes lower than 1.0 while loading chunks.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Run the code.
2. Wait, and keep checking the FPS meter on the bottom left.

Expected behavior
We need to add multiprocessing or threading for efficiency.

Desktop

• OS: Windows 10
• NVIDIA GTX Graphics card: 2GB
• Processor: intel 11th gen i5: six cores
• 8GB RAM

Texture remake?

The game textures currently are AWFUL. We need better textures for the game. Anyone who is good with textures can open a PR with new textures. Please note that the textures should be 16x16 pixel PNGs.

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Block shading overlay

Currently, PyCraft has plain textured blocks. We need to add some kind of shader, or a translucent overlay for shading blocks. We also need to add a new Lighting class in terrain/, which will store all the block shading values when the game is running. The shading value of a face depends on the lighting values of the nearby coordinates.

Add cross platform support

Right now, PyCraft only runs on Windows. We need to make it cross-platform. As @cixtor has pointed out in #54, the game doesn't run on MacOS. We need to add a cross-platform dep installer.

Use a 3D image storage instead of a texture atlas

Currently, PyCraft uses a texture atlas for all the textures. This causes some limitations. We need to use glTexImage3d and glTexSubImage3d for the TextureManager class.

How to execute script?

So, whether I want to contribute, before contributing please make a dep installer (dependinces installer) so we can execute your scripts. After that, If possible, I will contribute. Please help!

Dep installer for packages

Suggestion on how to fix the game lagging while displaying chunks

Hi, I saw on the README that you pointed out the game freezes while loading chunks.

What I think you should do is add a render distance feature. If you've played Minecraft, you would know that there is a value
called render_distance that basically detect the player's position in the world, and then renders a certain number of chunks so that the game does not lag. Else, if the world is infinitely generated, and the render distance is set to infinite (as it is now), it could cause the game to freeze like anything or even crash the game. Please implement this feature so that the game runs as expected.

Thanks,
@Adatta1276

The following packages do not install with dep_installer.bat

Deps are the following - glfw , PyOpenGL , pillow , pygame

Suggested fix -
add the following code

python -m pip install --upgrade glfw
python -m pip install --upgrade PyOpenGL
python -m pip install --upgrade pillow
python -m pip install --upgrade pygame

import pyglet, i already import in conda, where else?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\pdv\PyCraft_main_.py", line 1, in
import pyglet
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyglet'

I already install pyglet in my conda env. what else i do to play the game?

• OS: windows 10
• Browser chrome
• Version v94