After two months of development, Luanti has released version 5.15.0, a free cross-platform game engine in the sandbox genre, allowing users to create games similar to Roblox but with voxel mechanics. The engine uses various blocks for players to jointly form structures and buildings, creating a virtual world. Some games on the engine even clone Minecraft. The gameplay is dependent on mods created in the Lua language. Luanti is written in C++ using the IrrlichtMt 3D library (fork Irrlicht). The Luanti code is distributed under the LGPL license, and game assets are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Ready-made assemblies are available for Linux, Android, FreeBSD, Windows, and macOS.
Main changes in this release include:
- Added support for dynamic shadows on Android. View image here.
- Improved user interface with the addition of dark design mode. View image here.
- Added support for animated inventory images.
- Improved rendering performance and enabled texture arrays OpenGL, resulting in a tenfold increase in FPS in some situations.
- The SDL library has been made a required dependency.
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