Technical features

• Multiplayer
• Ambiant occlusion (baked into vertices)
• Multithreaded chunk meshing
• Cascaded shadow mapping
• Vertex packing
• Frustum culling
• Indirect rendering + Vertex pulling
• Reversed Z-buffer (infinite view distance, aka no far-plane)
• Lua scripting
• Volumetrics Lighting (godrays)

Submodules

• GLFW
• GLM
• DearImgui
• Lua
• Sol2

Installing

git clone https://github.com/Rafale25/minecraft-clone
git submodule update --init --recursive

How to build

External dependencies

• C++ Compiler - C++23 standard (MSVC, GCC, Clang)
• CMake v3.25+ - https://cmake.org/
• Ninja generator - https://ninja-build.org/

Linux - Debian/Ubuntu - Install required tools & libraries

sudo apt install build-essential git ninja-build cmake
sudo apt install libxrandr-dev libx11-dev libxkbcommon-dev libwayland-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev mesa-common-dev

Building the project (Windows & Linux)

mkdir build
cmake --preset <preset-of-your-choice>
cmake --build build -j

Presets

gcc-debug     - GCC Debug
gcc-release   - GCC Release
clang-debug   - Clang Debug
clang-release - Clang Release
windows       - MSVC