Valkyrie ⛅

OpenGL & Java 11 Voxel Engine

Table of contents

1. About the project
2. Features
3. System requirements
4. Building
5. License

About the project 📝

Valkyrie is a project with the objective of putting together a basic Hytale-like game engine, to be used as a foundation for a bigger game.

Render distance of 8 chunks (16 Minecraft chunks / ~256 meters) using around 500MB of memory, though the engine is capable of view distances up to 1 kilometer with a memory usage of about 4GB

Features ⚙

• Greedy Meshing
• Chunk-based world loading
• Procedurally generated environment using Perlin Noise
• Dynamic data loading with YAML, allowing to add new blocks and textures easily
• Multithreaded mesh building and world generation
• Font rendering
• Frustum culling
• Skybox
• Fog effect

System requirements 🎮

Important

Native Windows 10/11 ARM builds are not available yet.

	Minimum system requirements
CPU	64-bit (x86_64 or arm64-v8a) architecture
GPU	Any with OpenGL 4.6+ support
RAM	2 GB (at least 1 GB free)
Storage	1 GB free on HDD
OS	Windows 8.1+, macOS or Linux
Java	11+ (JDK or JRE)

Building 🚀

Warning

Prerequisites: Java Development Kit 11 or newer and Maven

1. Clone the repository and access the directory

git clone https://github.com/lofi-enjoyer/Valkyrie
cd Valkyrie/

2. Build the project with Maven

mvn package

License 📜

This project is under a GPL-3.0 license. Check LICENSE for more information.