Minecraft

This is a Minecraft clone, made with recreational intended purposes.

Building

The project is built using CMake. Run the following command to build

cd build && cmake --build .

This will create an executable Minecraft. Currently, only macOS is supported.

Current Implemented Features

Features that are implemented include:

• Movement
• Placing and blocks
• Removing blocks
• Hotbar
• World generation

Libraries Used

• OpenGL graphics rendering
• GLFW utility library for OpenGL
• GLM for OpenGL mathematics
• imgui for GUI
• stb image for images

TODO

• DO THEY NOT CACHE THE WORLD FOR GENERATION? MAYBE THATS WHAT I AM MISSING...
• Implement a ticks system
  • Chunks render at a tick rate
• dear imgui does not have a CMakeLists.txt file. Will most likely have to use a cmake/imgui.cmake file
  • SOLUTION: Put the CMakeLists.txt file in the lib/ directory instead, and compile all necessary libraries into a lib/liblib.a file (yes, the name is weird by default, but what can we do)
  • Same for glad, use a cmake/glad.cmake file
  • Still want to create the static library in build/lib/glad
• Multithread the chunks generation
  • Use a thread pool
• Physics
• Glass and leaves
• Trees
  • Transparent leafs
• Padding issues, add -Wpadded to see
  • See this article
• HUD being rendered over by the blocks when hovering too close to block face
• Fix cursor issue interacting with GUI even when off
• In the future, benchmark 1d array vs 2d array for chunks stored in the world
  • 2d array has cache misses
  • 1d array has a lot of multiplication calculations (costs a lot of cpu cycles)