Hadean Aether Client Examples

What is Aether Engine?

Aether Engine is a Distributed Simulation Engine designed to effortlessly create virtual worlds of unprecedented scale and complexity.

This repository

The aim is to give some examples of what it feels like to write a client for Aether.

Here you'll find two clients: a simple OpenGL client, and a client built using the Godot engine. In addition, the file aether_recording.dump contains some sample data produced by a running Aether instance.

Here's a screenshot of the result in OpenGL:

Building

You can build the demos:

Ubuntu

For Ubuntu 17.10:

$ sudo apt install build-essential libglfw3 libglfw3-dev libglew2.0 libglew-dev

Or for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

$ sudo apt install build-essential libglfw3 libglfw3-dev libglew1.13 libglew-dev

If you want to try the Godot client you will also need Godot and the GDNative headers installed and in your include path. After ensuring the dependencies are installed, simply

$ make

To build only the OpenGL client, instead

$ make opengl

Or to build only the Godot client,

$ make godot

With Nix

You'll need a recent checkout of nixpkgs (nixos-unstable or more recent). Then, just

$ nix-build -E 'with import <nixpkgs> { }; callPackage ./. { }'

to get all dependencies and build all the clients.

With Other Package Managers

We don't do anything weird: so long as you can install GLEW, GLFW3, and Godot, your distribution will probably work (but we haven't tested it). Make sure the dependencies are in place, then just run make.

Running

OpenGL

Run the OpenGL client with the path to the dump.

./clients/opengl/bin/client aether_recording.dump

Godot

To run the Godot client, you'll need to install the Godot engine for your distribution. Then, after building, simply run GODOT_REPLAY_FILE=/path/to/aether_recording.dump godot --path clients/godot. Beware that this path is interpreted relative to the Godot client (containing project.godot).

Licensing

All code in this repository is licensed under the Apache 2.0 licence, which can be found in the LICENSE file next to this one.

The images and sample data are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence.