OLD AND NOT MAINTAINED ANYMORE

A C++ polygon-based voxel engine and utility framework.

This project is a voxel engine featuring a common set of files I use for developping games in C++. I'm not working anymore on the voxel part.

Framework :

• Some essentials (Vector2, Vector3, Rect, AABB, Matrix4...)
• Dependence-free generic GUI (windows, buttons, wrapped text, sliders, dragging, skins...)
• OpenGL utility (Vertex/Pixel/Geometry shaders, basic direct-draws, VBO...)
• BMFont implementation
• Template entity-based game structure (Experimental)
• Random stuff (Platform-specific things, math utilities, logging...)

Voxel engine :

• Simple map generators using 2D or 3D perlin noise
• World save format based on NNN block files, where N=16 (not efficient, but working)
• Built-in 2D top-down world cartographer
• 3D free-flight viewer supporting viewing ranges up to 13*16 cubes without dropping under 60fps (on a 2009 laptop, didn't tested over that limit).

Third-party :

• UTF8 conversion for text internationalization
• Simplex noise

There is actually nothing "playable", but there is a main() function. that means you can test some technical demos :)

Infinite scary cave-canyon test (Windows only) : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/60408088/INFO/zCraft/2012-12-29-zcraft-map-test.zip

A few days ago, I switched to CMake. However, I'm new to this build system, so the CMakeLists.txt may be a bit awkward. It is recommended to use a separate build/ directory for the building process (notice it in .gitignore) in which you specify your environnment (paths to libs). If you can't get it to work, try Code::Blocks or another build system.

Compiler requirements :

• C++11, compiles fine with GCC 4.7.2 or MinGW on Windows. (MSVC compatibility is not my priority until I really need it)

Dependencies sum for ALL the project :

• SFML 2.0 (GCC 4.7 DW2)
• OpenGL 2.1 (I should switch to 3 one day)
• Glu
• Glew (I recompiled it for MinGW)

The execution directory must be the same as the assets/ folder (i.e repo's root).

The project is divided in several main parts :

• zENG, namespace zn::, folder engine/ (also called zCraft Engine)

This is the framework of tools I write for making games, and may be used for other projects than zCraft. Multimedia parts are heavily based on SFML, but only when it's really needed (for example, the core/ folder doesn't depend on anything but config.hpp, system/osdefines.hpp and the STL).

• zENGui, namespace zn::ui::, folder engine/gui/

This is a generic gui that only depends on the core/ and utf8/ parts of the engine. It is currently developped as part of the project. All you have to do to use it is to provide your renderer and input. Note : some renderers and inputs are already included.

• zCraft, namespace zcraft::, folder zcraft/

This is the voxel engine, based on zENG.

• Tests

experimental undocumented stuff based on the other packages. its contents may be future features or tests. I added this to the repo to have a cloud copy of it (I don't trust my HD) and to ease sharing.