Minecraft Block Viewer

An interactive application developed using OpenGL and C++ to view and interact with Minecraft blocks.

The purpose behind the developement of this project was solely learning Computer Graphics and getting used to the OpenGL library.

Preview

  
Block textures redered using OpenGL with diffuse and specular maps

Features

• Enable/disable lights
• Phong Lighting
• Rendering transparent/translucent object
• Block hover animation
• Multiple texture faces
• Specular and Diffuse maps

Build instructions

Run the following script in the project folder to fetch block texture atlases

./fetch_textures.sh

Build the project

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Run the program

./minecraft_block_viewer

Controls

Key	Description
PageUp	Switch to next block
PageDown	Switch to previous Block
L Key	Toggle Lighting in scene
Mouse Hold	Break Block
Escape key	Exit
Arrow Keys	Rotate Block