Voxelman

Plugin-based engine written in D language.

Voxelman plugin pack includes plugins for a voxel-based game(s).

Launcher will allow for any plugin combination, while master-server will host all plugins and online server list.

Screenshots and videos

Twitter

Imgur album

See releases for binaries.

See youtube channel for videos.

Contacts

• Report issues here
• Submit pull requests here
• Edit wiki

Join Discord servers:

• D language discord
• Voxelgamedev discord

Installing game

• Download latest build
• Unpack
• Follow instructions below

Compiler

Any D compiler with frontend version of 2.075 and newer.

Requirements

• OpenGL 3.1 support
• Multicore CPUs are utilized
• Memory consumption

Map name	10 (21^3) chunks		20 (41^3) chunks		30 (61^3) chunks
	RAM	VRAM	RAM	VRAM	RAM	VRAM
Default heightmap terrain	300MB	150MB	800MB	200MB	1.8GB	400MB
Default flat terrain	80MB	18MB	160MB	80MB	400MB	170MB
King's landing	200MB	180MB	500MB	550MB	600MB	700MB

Starting game from launcher

Single player

• Start launcher
• Press New in worlds tab to create new world
• Select new world and press Start

Multiplayer

• To start a server select world and press Server button
• Connect to your server in Connect tab of Play menu
• Select local server and press Connect at the bottom
• To stop the server, go to the Code menu and hit Stop button of your server instance

Starting game from command line

• Executable must be started from builds/default folder
• voxelman --app=[client|server|combined] --world_name="new world" --name="Player"
• You can override any config option with a switch of a form: --option=value
• Array config options are passed using comma between items. Like --resolution=1280,800

Server commands

• Can be inputted from server console inside launcher Debug menu, or from client's in-game console
• tp <x> [<y>] <z> | tp <player name> - teleports to position or other player's location
• tp u|d|l|r|f|b <num_blocks> - teleports player in choosen direction
• spawn teleports to starting world position
• spawn set sets world spawn
• dim_spawn teleports to dimension spawn pos
• dim_spawn set sets dimension spawn pos

Controls (Can be changed in config/client.sdl)

• Q to lock mouse
• WASD, LCtrl, Space to move. LShift to boost
• Right and Left to switch tools
• R to rotate blocks
• RMB to place
• LMB to remove
• MMB to pick block
• ~ open console
• [ and ] to change view distance
• Keypad - and + to change movement speed
• U disable position update
• F flying mode
• N noclip
• KP+, KP- change movement speed
• F2 chunk grid
• F5 update all meshes
• C toggle frustum culling
• Y toggle wireframe mode

Building from sources

Installing compilers

Linux

sudo wget http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/d-apt/files/d-apt.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/d-apt.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y --allow-unauthenticated install --reinstall d-apt-keyring && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential dmd-bin dub

Windows

• Compilers https://dlang.org/download.html
• Visual studio https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/

Installing dependencies

Linux

sudo apt-get install liblmdb-dev liblz4-dev libglfw3-dev libenet-dev

Windows

Download compiled static libs from here

Unpack lib folder inside voxelman folder.

Compile

git clone --depth=50 https://github.com/MrSmith33/voxelman voxelman
cd voxelman
git submodule update --init --recursive
dub build

With sources and dependencies you can now also compile & run via launcher.

Run

cd builds/default
voxelman --app=combined