After three months of development, an available release of the free game engine luanti 5.10.0 has been announced. This engine allows users to create games in the style of Minecraft using LUA API and various station blocks to build structures and buildings in a virtual world. The project was previously known as Minetest but was renamed to avoid any misconceptions that it was an unfinished Minecraft clone. The engine is written in C++ and uses 3D-bibliotexes Irrlichtmt (a fork of irrlicht ). The code is distributed under LGPL-2.1 license, and game resources are under CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
The main changes in this release include:
- Enhanced gameplay with a new Contentdb intra-game interface. The new menu maximizes the use of space and aesthetically displays more information.
- Implementation of new visual effects, like simple reflections in water and translucent foliage.
- Support for animated model format Gitf.
- Compatibility with file format translations using Gettext.
- For the Android platform, a new touchscreen control menu has been added, along with support for keyboard and mouse controls.
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