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Article posted on: 2022-03-24 11:10
Last edited on: 2022-04-02 10:33
Written by: Sylvain Gauthier

Release: weiqi 0.0 alpha

After working on it for about a year and a half, I got around to make a first (very much alpha) binary release of my Go 3D interface named weiqi.

It intends to be light, memory-friendly, written in clean C, and able to run on modest hardware while looking very modern and elegant.

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Requirements:

• OpenGL >= 3.1
• GLFW3
• gnugo, optional but preferred. Any other GTP engine should do, modulo a quick edit in config.json.

Links:

• Linux x86_64
• Source code

Features

• Play against GTP engines.
• Highly customisable 3D interface:
  • Orientable camera.
  • Direct lighting with customisable colour, direction and shadows.
  • Image-based lighting (IBL) with optional ambient occlusion.
  • Two modes, fancy PBR or minimal solid shader.
• Start-up menu if launched without arguments.
• Play over a UNIX domain socket (and through network with a socket forwarding tool like socat).
• Play over IRC with qirc.

Coming soon™

• SGF support, save/load games.
• Game tree.
• Scoring (using an engine).

Screenshots

Bugs

• Occlusion might be buggy on some graphic cards.

Feel free to report any bug or feature request to me:

• syg (at) pedantic (dot) software