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What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

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What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by Minerz » Sat Oct 17, 2015 00:03

They look the exact same to me. So, what's the difference? I'd like to know.
 
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by Don » Sat Oct 17, 2015 00:17

A very simple explanation is that minetest is focused on making a solid engine and freeminer is focused on game play.
Of course there is more to it but that is the basic difference.
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by Minerz » Sat Oct 17, 2015 03:29

Ok, Thankyou, Don! So does Freeminer have mobs? Sorry for all the questions, but I'm curious :)
 
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by Dragonop » Sat Oct 17, 2015 03:31

http://forum.freeminer.org/
 
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by Minerz » Sat Oct 17, 2015 03:35

Ah-hah! The Freeminer website.
 
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by Hybrid Dog » Sat Oct 17, 2015 08:10

https://github.com/freeminer/freeminer/ ... ANGELOG.md
freeminer has entity shadows which can be enabled
 
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by Minerz » Sat Oct 17, 2015 20:22

Hybrid Dog wrote:https://github.com/freeminer/freeminer/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
freeminer has entity shadows which can be enabled

Man, that's honestly really cool! It's like Minetest with different things added.
 
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by cessna151 » Sun Oct 18, 2015 13:30

Freeminer does NOT work on windows XP. Minetest does :-)
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by Minerz » Sun Oct 18, 2015 15:42

cessna151 wrote:Freeminer does NOT work on windows XP. Minetest does :-)

I used to use Windows XP. I've switched to Windows 7 though. I thing Minetest is a lower-spec game, which is cool.
 
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by Dartmouth » Sun Oct 18, 2015 16:10

Freeminer also seems to depend on some weird library that I can't find for my distro, so I have never tried it because it won't compile.
 
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by Minerz » Sun Oct 18, 2015 17:01

Dartmouth wrote:Freeminer also seems to depend on some weird library that I can't find for my distro, so I have never tried it because it won't compile.

Really? For me, Freeminer is laggy as hell.
 
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by kaadmy » Sun Oct 18, 2015 17:43

Dartmouth wrote:Freeminer also seems to depend on some weird library that I can't find for my distro, so I have never tried it because it won't compile.

Same.
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by Hybrid Dog » Sun Oct 18, 2015 17:58

Minerz wrote:
Dartmouth wrote:Freeminer also seems to depend on some weird library that I can't find for my distro, so I have never tried it because it won't compile.

Really? For me, Freeminer is laggy as hell.

Did you try a new version and enable vbo?
 
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by Minerz » Sun Oct 18, 2015 19:39

Hybrid Dog wrote:
Minerz wrote:
Dartmouth wrote:Freeminer also seems to depend on some weird library that I can't find for my distro, so I have never tried it because it won't compile.

Really? For me, Freeminer is laggy as hell.

Did you try a new version and enable vbo?

Hmmmmm. (Not the developer) What is the VBO again? I forgot.
 
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by kaadmy » Sun Oct 18, 2015 20:14

Minerz wrote:
Hybrid Dog wrote:[...]
Did you try a new version and enable vbo?

Hmmmmm. (Not the developer) What is the VBO again? I forgot.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but I think it's Vertex Buffer Object.
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Re: What's the difference between Freeminer & Minetest?

by Minerz » Sun Oct 18, 2015 22:06

kaadmy wrote:
Minerz wrote:
Hybrid Dog wrote:[...]
Did you try a new version and enable vbo?

Hmmmmm. (Not the developer) What is the VBO again? I forgot.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but I think it's Vertex Buffer Object.

Yup. You're right! I remembered a few minutes after I posted the question. :)
 
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