FlexW / Voxelsworld

OpenGL Voxelworld tech demo

Voxelworld

Simple tech demo to explore rendering techniques with OpenGL.

Controls

• W - Move forward
• S - Move backward
• A - Move left
• D - Move right
• Move mouse - Look around
• Left mouse button - Brick block
• Right mouse button - Place block

Configuration

In the data folder you can find a file called voxelsworld.ini. Have a look at the values and change them to you liking. Set for example free_fly = 0 to get very basic gravity.

Requirements

I've only build the app on Linux so far, but Windows should also work as there are no platform depended dependencies.

Make sure you have a recent OpenGL version on your computer. OpenGL 4.6 is needed. You can check this on a Linux computer with glxinfo | grep "core profile version".

Besides that, you need a C++ compiler that supports C++17, like Clang or GCC. CMake and Ninja are also needed for building.

Build

Open a terminal and clone the project

git clone https://github.com/FlexW/Voxelsworld

Download the dependencies

cd Voxelsworld
git submodule update --init --recursive

And finally, build the project

cmake --preset=clang_release # You can view a list of presets with cmake --list-presets
ninja -C build/clang_release/

Run

After you followed the above instructions to build the project, you can run it with

./build/clang_release/src/app

Issues

There will be tons of issues as it is a simple demo to explore rendering rather than a solid application. Feel free to report issues here.