Minetest Rust

Minetest is a free open-source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation.

Copyright (C) 2010-2023 Perttu Ahola [email protected] and contributors (see source file comments and the version control log)

This is not an official build of minetest.

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This is a rebuild of minetest from the ground up by jordan4ibanez.

If you would like to help me with this herculean undertaking in real time: https://discord.gg/Z2wCscTB4F

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Required external dependencies.

• Rust - It's written in Rust. Shocking I know. Get it here.
• cmake - Install with your linux package manager. On Windows get it here. (just keep clicking next on install to get all defaults.)
• gcc - Install with your linux package manager. On Windows it seems to come with it's own compiler in the Visual Studio required toolchain install for Rust. This is for SDL2.

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Current package usage:

• clap - CLI parsing.

• configparser - Parsing .conf files.

• ctrlc - Catching termination events and elegantly exiting the program.

• message-io - UDP networking.

• spin_sleep - Main loop speed control.

• spin_sleep_util - Assistant to spin_sleep.

• sdl2 - Windowing library. (but could be used for more things)

• glam - An incredible math library.

• env_logger - An elegant logging library.

• log - Used in conjunction with env_logger.

• pollster - A micro library which allows blocking a thread while a future completes.

• wgpu - Graphics multiplexer. (Vulkan, OpenGL, WebGPU, metal)

• wgpu_sdl_linker - A micro library which allows safely linking wgpu with SDL2.

• bytemuck - Used in conjunction with wgpu to cash vertex data.

• gltf - gltf 2.0 model loader.

• tobj - obj model loader.

• rand - For doing random things.

• ahash - EXTREMELY fast hashmaps.

• unique_64 - Unique unsigned integral IDs.

Packages to be implemented:

• rusqlite - SQLite3 database.
• sea-query - SQLite3 query builder.
• serde - Serialization and deserialization of data.
• serde_bytes - Same as serde.

Experimental packages for testing:

• quote - Common Lisp code as data features.
• syn - Common Lisp code as data features.

Current progress

• Client and Server monolithic framework
• Basic UDP networking complete with timeout integration
• Client and Server LuaEngine which implements LuauJIT
• Elegant handling of termination signal to program
• Elegant handling of frame/tick timing
• Window opened with SDL2
• I'm probably forgetting something

Next up

• Set up wgpu
• Render a triangle with wgpu
• Rendering some text in the window
• A basic GUI (minetest formspec/HUD)
• Client settings that can be modified during runtime
• SQLite3 Server framework with rusqlite
• Writing hello world into the SQLite3 database
• Use sea-query to write hello world into the SQLite3 database
• More SQLite things???
• Serde serialization integration with minetest data structs
• I'm probably forgetting something again

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(keeping this here for help)

https://blessed.rs/crates

https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust

https://arewegameyet.rs/

mold

An ultra-fast linker which you can optionally use!

Please install mold then paste the following in .cargo/config.toml if you want to use it.

[target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu]
linker = "clang"
rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=/usr/bin/mold"]

I do not use windows or mac, if you would like to test it with those, feel free to add instructions.

github repo: https://github.com/rui314/mold

mold available repo packages: https://repology.org/project/mold/versions

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wgsl-analyzer

Currently the best wgsl analyzer I can find for vscode is wgsl-analyzer.

github repo: https://github.com/wgsl-analyzer/wgsl-analyzer

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