Aperos Engine is a free open source voxel game engine focusing on ease of modding and game creation. With the aim of bringing the AperosVoxel game to life.
Aperos Engine is based on Minetest:
Credits to (C) 2010-2018 Perttu Ahola celeron55@gmail.com for creating Minetest and Minetest collaborators for their contributions (see the LICENSE file). Thanks to Minetest contributors!
- Further Documentation
- Default Controls
- Paths
- Configuration File
- Command-line Options
- Compiling
- Docker
- Version Scheme
- GitHub: https://github.com/VetusChronos/aperosengine/
- Developer documentation
- docs/ directory of source distribution
All controls are re-bindable using settings. Some can be changed in the key config dialog in the settings tab.
| Button | Action |
|---|---|
| Move mouse | Look around |
| W, A, S, D | Move |
| Space | Jump/move up |
| Shift | Sneak/move down |
| Q | Drop itemstack |
| Shift + Q | Drop single item |
| Left mouse button | Dig/punch/use |
| Right mouse button | Place/use |
| Shift + right mouse button | Build (without using) |
| E | Inventory menu |
| Mouse wheel | Select item |
| 0-9 | Select item |
| Z | Zoom (needs zoom privilege) |
| T | Chat |
| / | Command |
| Esc | Pause menu/abort/exit (pauses only singleplayer game) |
| + | Increase view range |
| - | Decrease view range |
| K | Enable/disable fly mode (needs fly privilege) |
| J | Enable/disable fast mode (needs fast privilege) |
| H | Enable/disable noclip mode (needs noclip privilege) |
| Ctrl | Aux1 (Move fast in fast mode. Games may add special features) |
| C | Cycle through camera modes |
| V | Cycle through minimap modes |
| Shift + V | Change minimap orientation |
| F1 | Hide/show HUD |
| F12 | Hide/show chat |
| F7 | Disable/enable fog |
| F4 | Disable/enable camera update (Mapblocks are not updated anymore when disabled, disabled in release builds) |
| F3 | Cycle through debug information screens |
| F6 | Cycle through profiler info screens |
| F10 | Show/hide console |
| F2 | Take screenshot |
Locations:
bin- Compiled binariesshare- Distributed read-only datauser- User-created modifiable data
Where each location is on each platform:
- Windows .zip / RUN_IN_PLACE source:
bin=binshare=.user=.
- Windows installed:
bin=C:\Program Files\AperosEngine\bin (Depends on the install location)share=C:\Program Files\AperosEngine (Depends on the install location)user=%APPDATA%\AperosEngineor%APEROSENGINE_USER_PATH%
- Linux installed:
bin=/usr/binshare=/usr/share/aperosengineuser=~/.aperosengineor$APEROSENGINE_USER_PATH
- macOS:
bin=Contents/MacOSshare=Contents/Resourcesuser=Contents/Useror~/Library/Application Support/aperosengineor$APEROSENGINE_USER_PATH
Worlds can be found as separate folders in: user/worlds/
- Default location:
user/aperosengine.conf - This file is created by closing AperosEngine for the first time.
- A specific file can be specified on the command line:
--config <path-to-file> - A run-in-place build will look for the configuration file in
location_of_exe/../aperosengine.confand alsolocation_of_exe/../../aperosengine.conf
- Use
--help
Aperos Engine use the scheme major.minor.patch.stage.
- Major is incremented when the release contains breaking changes, all other numbers are set to 0.
- Minor is incremented when the release contains new non-breaking features, patch is set to 0.
- Patch is incremented when the release only contains bugfixes and very minor/trivial features considered necessary.
- Stage is incremented when the indicate whether the engine has been released, is in beta, alpha, or in dev
Stages:
- Release: Indicates that the engine has been released
- Beta: Indicates that the engie is in beta phase, and that new feature additions are paused and current features will be polished
- Alpha: Indicates that the engine is in the alpha phase, and that new feature additions are being implemented, removed or being tested, which may result in instability
- Dev: Indicates that the engine has not been released for official testing