Minecraft in OpenGL

This is our final project repository for CS378H: Computer Graphics with Prof. Etienne Vouga. We recreated the iconic look and feel of Minecraft using modern OpenGL and Pyglet. This project gave us insight into procedural terrain generation using Perlin noise and 3D graphics programming.

Features

• Custom Graphics Engine: Built using Pyglet and OpenGL, the engine renders Minecraft-like blocks in a 3D space.
• Texture Management: Custom textures for blocks, including grass, dirt, cobblestone, and more.
• Procedural Terrain Generation: Perlin noise for randomized terrain generation.
• Shader Implementation: Utilizes vertex and fragment shaders for rendering the blocks.
• Interactive Camera: A comprehensive camera system that allows you to navigate through the 3D world.

Installation

This project uses Pyglet, a cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python. We also use perlin_noise and NumPy for computation. Install them using pip:

pip install pyglet pyglm numpy perlin_noise

Usage

Start the game by running:

python game.py

Gameplay

• W A S D to move your camera
• M1 to break a block, 'M2' to place one
• R to toggle fast traveling
• ESC to pause the game
• SHIFT to move down
• SPACE to move up

Project Content

The content is as follows:

• The game.py files creates the window for the world as well as handles inputs and puts everything together
• the shaders folder contains the shaders for our project (it's how we display stuff onto the GPU)
• the textures.py file procedurally generates textures for the block faces to use
• the camera.py file updates the camera's orientation and the Model-View-Projection Matrix that makes the scene 3 dimensional
• the chunk.py file contains everything needed to load chunks into the world
• the matrix_pyglm.py file makes it easy to convert glm matrices into python matrices so that it's convenient to pass into shaders
• the world.py file generates chunks and draws them onto the window