The release of Minetest 5.7.0 has taken place, a free cross-platform sandbox game engine that allows creating various voxel constructions, surviving, mining resources, growing crops, etc. The game is written in C++ using the IrrlichtMt 3D library (a fork of Irrlicht 1.9-dev). The main feature of the engine is that gameplay is completely dependent on a set of mods created in Lua and installed by the user through the built-in ContentDB installer or through the forum. Minetest's code is distributed under the LGPL license, while game resources are under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Pre-built packages are available for various Linux distributions, Android, FreeBSD, Windows, and macOS.
The update is dedicated to the late developer Jude Melton-Hought, who made significant contributions to the project. The main changes in the new version include:
- A post-processing framework has been added with various visual effects such as Bloom and dynamic exposure. These effects, like shadows, are also controllable proxy server (can be toggled on/off, configured by mods). Post-processing will simplify the creation of new effects in the future, such as rays, lens effects, reflections, etc.
- Significantly increased map rendering performance, allowing rendering map blocks up to 1000 nodes away.
- Improved shadow quality and tone mapping. A setting has been added to adjust saturation.
- Support for rotating hitboxes for entities has been added.
- The default binding of pitchmove to the P key has been removed.
- An API has been added to obtain information about the game screen size.
- Worlds with unresolved dependencies can no longer be loaded.
- The Development Test game is no longer distributed by default, as it is intended for developers. This game can now only be installed through ContentDB.
- Minetest has been temporarily removed from Google Play because the game Mineclone was added to the Android version build, after which the developers received a notification from Google regarding the presence of illegal content violating the DMCA. Currently, the developers are working on this issue. The developers accidentally added Mineclone to the Minetest build for Android and received a notification from Google about it containing illegal content that violates the DMCA. Therefore, Minetest was removed from Google Play. That's all I know.
Source: opennet.ru
