CavEX
Cave Explorer is a Wii homebrew game with the goal to recreate most of the core survival aspects up until Beta 1.7.3. Any features beyond will not be added.
Features
- great performance on Wii (about 60fps)
- 5 chunk render distance currently
- load any beta world save
- nearly all blocks added, except redstone related
- many items from the original
- correct light propagation
- ambient occlusion on blocks
Planned features (in no particular order, not complete)
- main menu
- generation of new chunks
- biome colors
player physicsinventory managementblock placementand destruction logic(random)block updatesitem actions- real texture pack support
- Beta 1.7.3 multiplayer support
Screenshot
(from the PC version)
Build instructions
You need to download these libraries yourself and place their source files to the following directories. They are required for any platform.
| library | files | destination |
|---|---|---|
| LodePNG | lodepng.h and lodepng.c |
source/lodepng/ |
| cglm | include/cglm/ |
source/cglm/ |
| cNBT | buffer.c, buffer.h, list.h, nbt_loading.c, nbt_parsing.c, nbt_treeops.c, nbt_util.c and nbt.h |
source/cNBT/ |
| parson | parson.h and parson.c |
source/parson/ |
| M*LIB | any root *.h |
compiler include path |
Wii
For the Wii platform you need to install the devkitPro Wii/Gamecube environment. Additionally install zlib using pacman of devkitPro.
dkp-pacman -S wii-dev ppc-zlibTo build, simply run make in the root directory. You might need to load the cross compiler env first (required e.g. if you use fish instead of bash).
source /etc/profile.d/devkit-env.sh
makeThere should then be a .dol file in the root directory that your Wii can run. To copy the game to your apps/ folder, it needs to look like this:
cavex
├── assets
│ ├── terrain.png
│ ├── items.png
│ ├── anim.png
│ ├── default.png
│ ├── gui.png
│ └── gui2.png
├── saves
│ ├── world
│ └── ...
├── boot.dol
├── config.json
├── icon.png
└── meta.xmlGNU/Linux
The game can also run on any PC with support for OpenGL 2.0 and played with keyboard and mouse.
Building requires the following additional libraries, which you can install with your system package manager: zlib, glfw3 and glew. You can then use CMake and gcc to build. The already existing Makefile is for the Wii platform only and might be removed sometime later.
mkdir build_pc
cd build_pc
cmake ..
makePlease also copy the fragment and vertex shaders from resources/ next to your assets/ directory.