Documentation updates.

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Minetest-c55
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An InfiniMiner/Minecraft inspired game.
Copyright (c) 2010 Perttu Ahola <celeron55@gmail.com>
An InfiniMiner/Minecraft inspired game.
NOTE: This file is somewhat outdated most of the time.
This is a development version:
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- Don't expect it to work as well as a finished game will.
- Please report any bugs to me. That way I can fix them to the next release.
- debug.txt is useful when the game crashes.
Public servers:
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kray.dy.fi :30000 (friend's server)
celeron.55.lt :30000 (my own server)
Controls:
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- See the in-game pause menu
Map directory:
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- Map is stored in a directory, which can be removed to generate a new map.
- There is na command-line option for it: --map-dir
- As default, it is located in:
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OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/map
Configuration file:
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- An optional configuration file can be used. See minetest.conf.example.
- Path to file can be passed as a parameter to the executable:
--config <path-to-file>
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OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/minetest.conf
Command-line options:
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- Use --help
Compiling on GNU/Linux:
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- You need:
* CMake
* Irrlicht
* Zlib
- You can probably find these in your distro's package repository.
- Building has been tested to work flawlessly on many systems.
Install dependencies. Here's an example for Debian/Ubuntu:
$ apt-get install libirrlicht-dev cmake libbz2-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg8-dev libxxf86vm-dev
- Check possible options:
$ cd whatever/minetest
$ cmake . -LH
Download source, extract (this is the URL to the latest of source repository, which might not work at all times):
$ wget https://bitbucket.org/celeron55/minetest/get/tip.tar.gz
$ tar xf tip.tar.gz
$ cd minetest
- A system-wide install:
$ cd whatever/minetest
$ cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
$ make -j2
$ sudo make install
$ minetest
- Install to home directory:
$ cd whatever/minetest
$ cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/minetest_install
$ make -j2
$ make install
$ ~/minetest_install/bin/minetest
- For running in the source directory:
$ cd whatever/minetest
$ cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE
Build a version that runs directly from the source directory:
$ cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE=1
$ make -j2
$ ./bin/minetest
Run it:
$ cd bin
$ ./minetest
- Use cmake . -LH to see all CMake options and their current state
- If you want to install it system-wide (or are making a distribution package), you will want to use -DRUN_IN_PLACE=0
- You can build a bare server or a bare client by specifying -DBUILD_CLIENT=0 or -DBUILD_SERVER=0
- You can select between Release and Debug build by -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=<Debug or Release>
- Note that the Debug build is considerably slower
Compiling on Windows:
- NOTE: Seems that the CMake build system produces executables that don't work
for many people. The old build system is still included, but it's not
documented in here.
documented anywhere.
- You need CMake, Irrlicht, Zlib and Visual Studio or MinGW
- NOTE: Probably it will not work easily and you will need to fix some stuff.
- Steps:
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- Set up some options and paths
- Hit "Configure"
- Hit "Generate"
- VC: Open the generated .sln and build it
- MinGW: Browse to the build directory and run 'make'
- MSVC: Open the generated .sln and build it
MinGW: Browse to the build directory and run 'make'
License of Minetest-c55
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@ -104,19 +104,41 @@ SUGG: Meshes of blocks could be split into 6 meshes facing into
different directions and then only those drawn that need to be
- Also an 1-dimensional tile map would be nice probably
Documentation:
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TODO: Copy build instructions from website to README.txt
Build system / running:
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NOTE: The following fixme is not apparently valid, and it does work.
FIXME: Graphical mode seems to segfault with Irrlicht 1.7.1 on 64-bit
systems. (Ubuntu)
- http://pastebin.no/32bo
- Might be just a bad build, too
- Doesn't affect Irrlicht 1.7.2 or 32-bit 1.7.1. (Arch/Debian)
- A similar error occurs when getTexture is called from a thread
when the texture has not been already loaded from disk:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=68830
FIXME: Some network errors on Windows that cause local game to not work
- See siggjen's emails.
Networking:
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TODO: Get rid of GotSplitPacketException
GUI:
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TODO: Add gui option to remove map
TODO: Startup and configuration menu
Graphics:
TODO:
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TODO: Optimize day/night mesh updating somehow
- create copies of all textures for all lighting values and only
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- Is this necessary at all?
Configuration:
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TODO: Make the video backend selectable
Client:
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TODO: Untie client network operations from framerate
- Needs some input queues or something
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TODO: Make morning and evening shorter
Server:
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TODO: When player dies, throw items on map
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TODO: Make water more like in minecraft
Objects:
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TODO: Better handling of objects and mobs
- Scripting?
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objects are stepped according to it.
Map generator:
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NOTE: There are some lighting-related todos and fixmes in
ServerMap::emergeBlock. And there always will be. 8)
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TODO: Remove HMParams
TODO: Change AttributeList to split the area into smaller sections so
that searching won't be as heavy.
TODO: Change AttributeList to be 2D, as it would be too slow to search
in 3D fields anyway.
Doing now:
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