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Has anyone made a similarly licensed Minecraft 1.7.3 (or close to it) client that's worth looking at? Or let me put it differently - what's the most popular open source client?
It's just the basics - only renders terrain and some static blocks. But it's also based on 1.7.3 protocol.
I've just checked and it kinda works with TrueCraft server: http://i.imgur.com/Brf2NXg.png
Cool project! Can't wait to see a pure .NET client with OpenGL down the road. I don't install Java on anything anymore (mostly due to all the security issues) so I haven't played Minecraft in years.
There's been no security issues in Java... there been security issues in the java web browser plugin.
Just don't install the plugin. There's zero risk of installing java and playing minecraft.
Has anyone made a similarly licensed Minecraft 1.7.3 (or close to it) client that's worth looking at? Or let me put it differently - what's the most popular open source client?
Cool project! Can't wait to see a pure .NET client with OpenGL down the road. I don't install Java on anything anymore (mostly due to all the security issues) so I haven't played Minecraft in years.
Has anyone made a similarly licensed Minecraft 1.7.3 (or close to it) client that's worth looking at? Or let me put it differently - what's the most popular open source client?
I've made this some years ago: https://github.com/banthar/mine3d It's just the basics - only renders terrain and some static blocks. But it's also based on 1.7.3 protocol. I've just checked and it kinda works with TrueCraft server: http://i.imgur.com/Brf2NXg.png
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Take a loot at some open source projects. The Battle For Wesnoth (c++) has many more contributors than FreeCol (Java). I'm sure that number of C# developers in the world who develop open source stuff is even smaller. If your main goal is to get as many contributors as possible, perhaps JavaScript would be the best choice. And I'm still not convinced that Java is the main cause the original Minecraft was bad. Although…
>> I'm sure that number of C# developers in the world who develop open source stuff is even smaller. We aren't god damn unicorns.
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Yes? It seems like a good choice. Maybe 6 months ago I would have said it's foolish, but with C# being an actual open language now, I'd say it's a rock solid choice. What would you have done it in? C, and never get any contributor? Or Java, and do as bad as the original?
Yeah, I'm a little let down this isn't in C++. Also, I'm not sure how open .Net actually is but it is cross platformish so not a bad choice. Though I imagine that .Net and Java would have share the same sort of performance issues. But if its your preferred language and framework then I say have at it. It's your project you should be able to enjoy working on it.
... In C#
Yes? It seems like a good choice. Maybe 6 months ago I would have said it's foolish, but with C# being an actual open language now, I'd say it's a rock solid choice. What would you have done it in? C, and never get any contributor? Or Java, and do as bad as the original?
Cool project! Can't wait to see a pure .NET client with OpenGL down the road. I don't install Java on anything anymore (mostly due to all the security issues) so I haven't played Minecraft in years.
Running other people's code is unsafe whether it's java or not. Your comment is misguided.
When held to those standards, Java has been kind of disappointing—repeatedly oscillating between "just about good enough" and "major hole preventing this setup from working." Likewise, many things Javascript got right immediately (like the FS API providing per-origin virtual filesystem containers rather than a view of the actual OS) were never even considered. Despite the marketing, safe execution of untrusted code was never much of a real goal for the platform, and disappeared entirely as a "tentpole" after 1997 or so (despite everyone still remembering the marketing and thinking Java "should" be capable of that.)
When taken as just another bytecode-VM-based runtime platform like the .NET or Erlang runtimes, used for executing code already granted the same level of trust as the other native code on the system, Java is great.
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If I'm not mistaken you're using the original Minecraft's textures. I would suggest switching to something that isn't copyrighted by Mojang to avoid issues.
As xlib said, the screenshots were taken with the official client. I have a contributor who is working on a free (as in freedom) texture pack that we can use when we start working on the client.
A freely-licensed texture pack would be great, I faced this same problem when developing a different voxel-based game. There are plenty of texture packs available on Minecraft Forums or Curse but very few released under permissive licensing terms, or those that I could find were outdated.
So I made my own, feel free to use it or parts of it if you would like to: https://github.com/deathcap/ProgrammerArt - it is updated for and includes all items and blocks for Minecraft 1.8, available in "resource pack" (1.8-1.6), "texture pack" (1.5), and "stitch pack" (1.4 and earlier, prebuilt texture atlas) formats. It is not the greatest quality artwork I admit, but can serve as a decent placeholder, and best of all is released under CC-BY 4.0 so it can be freely used and distributed. Though if your contributor makes a better free texture pack I'll probably switch =) cheers
