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About

Credits

Game developped by azekill_DIABLO. A fork of the work of Twetzel59, known as Craft NG, a fork of the work of M. Fogleman, the base of everything, Craft.

Running the game

Mac and Windows: Click on the executable file, the game should run. Linux: Open terminal in the directory of the game and type ./omicron

See below to compile from source and get the executable.

Compilation

Requirements under Mac OS X

Download and install CMake if you don't already have it. You may use Homebrew to simplify the installation:

brew install cmake

Requirements under Linux (and Debian)

sudo apt-get install cmake libglew-dev xorg-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get build-dep glfw

Requirements under Windows

Download and install CMake and MinGW. Add C:\MinGW\bin to your PATH.

Download and install cURL so that CURL/lib and CURL/include are in your Program Files directory.

Use the following commands in place of the ones described in the next section.

cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles"
mingw32-make

Compilation (for all platforms)

Once you have the dependencies (see above), install the sources and open the terminal in the dowloaded source directory. Run the following commands :

cmake .
make

Then you can run the game.

More info

Controls

• WASD/ZQSD to move forward, left, backward, right.
• Space to jump.
• Left Click to destroy a block.
• Right Click or Cmd + Left Click to create a block.
• Ctrl + Right Click to toggle a block as a light source.
• 1-9 to select the block type to create.
• E to cycle through the block types.
• Tab to toggle between walking and flying.
• Left shift to zoom.
• F to show the scene in orthographic mode.
• O to observe players in the main view.
• P to observe players in the picture-in-picture view.
• T to type text into chat.
• Forward slash (/) to enter a command.
• Minus (-) to write text on any block (signs).
• Arrow keys emulate mouse movement.
• Enter emulates mouse click.

Dependencies

• GLEW is used for managing OpenGL extensions across platforms.
• GLFW is used for cross-platform window management.
• CURL is used for HTTPS / SSL POST for the authentication process.
• lodepng is used for loading PNG textures.
• sqlite3 is used for saving the blocks added / removed by the user.
• tinycthread is used for cross-platform threading.