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@sexybiggetje and @dafky2000 recently asked me, "why the fork?" and "What are the goals?" So I hope this helps answer that question! :) Thank you for your interest!
This is the game engine source code repository.
ZetaGlest is a fork of MegaGlest, a libre software cross platform real-time strategy game.
ZetaGlest is an entertaining free (freeware and free software) and open source cross-platform 3D real-time strategy (RTS) game, where you control the armies of one of eight different factions: Tech, Magic, Egypt, Indians, Norsemen, Persian, Elves or Romans. The game is played in one of 17 naturally looking settings, which, like the unit models, are crafted with great attention to detail. A lot of additional game data can be downloaded from within the game at no cost.
Why this fork? (Project Goals)
I noticed that there were some good feature requests in the MegaGlest forum, as well as some mods, but it seemed that implementing and testing had a pace that I was uncomfortable with. After talking about this with another player, I decided to fork the project and see if I could assemble regular contributors and players who had similar feelings about the speed of progress, adding artwork, promoting mods made by contributors, and code enhancements. I would like to encourage contributions, no matter how small, in the hopes of improving an already fun game and making the experience even more fun that it has been for me.
Download executable files
No binary packages of the ZetaGlest fork have been released yet. If you have no desire to compile software and would only like a binary (executable), we suggest trying the MegaGlest game; binary package downloads for various operating systems are available on their web site.
To Build (Compile) and Run
Dependencies
On Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Opensuse and even more Linux distributions, after you clone the source repository, you may use
cd mk/linux
sudo ./setupBuildDeps.sh
which will run your package manager and attempt to install the needed packages.
(These may vary based on your operating system or Linux distribution; we will attempt to document dependencies in more detail)
Below is a list of most dependencies you will need. This document needs to indicate better which are optional and which are required.
gcc gcc-c++ cmake libsdl2-dev libalut-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libvorbis-dev libx11-dev liblua-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libcurl-gnutls-dev libircclient-dev libglew-dev libftgl-dev libfribidi-dev libcppunit-dev libminiupnpc-dev libfreetype6-dev libgnutls28-dev libkrb5-dev libkrb5-dev libnghttp2-dev libopenal-dev libldap2-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev librtmp-dev libvlccore-dev libvlc-dev
Additionally for map editor and model viewer:
libwxgtk3.0-dev libxml2-dev
Try the game without contributing
Use this command:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ZetaGlest/zetaglest-source.git
Afterward, to build, change to the mk/ directory, select your operating system and run
./build-zg.sh
To execute the game:
./zetaglest
Contributing and Testing
If you would like to contribute to development, you will need to fork and then clone your forks of these 3 repositories:
- https://github.com/ZetaGlest/zetaglest-source
- https://github.com/ZetaGlest/zetaglest-data
- https://github.com/ZetaGlest/zetaglest-masterserver
Hint: make a ZetaGlest directory, then clone from there. Afterward, you
will have these 3 directories in ZetaGlest
zetaglest-data
zetaglest-masterserver
zetaglest-source
Afterward, to build, change to the zetaglest-source/mk/ directory, and run:
./build-zg.sh
To run the game, you will need to specify the data path:
./zetaglest --data-path=<path to data repository>zetaglest-data/
If you don't provide the data path, you will receive an error message when the game starts.
Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for extended, important instructions and guidelines for contributing.
Contact
- IRC: Freenode/#zetaglest-dev
- Discord
- email: andy400-dev@yahoo.com