[GAMES] Minecraft client (libGL)

[ptitSeb]

Mincraft client, as feature in the July/2016 edition of ODroid magasin



https://youtu.be/T0sy_w-ZLxA
To install, simply

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sudo apt-get install minecraft-odroid

and enjoy...

[linuxgnuru]

what repository do you have to add?

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odroid@odroid-xu4:~$ sudo apt-get install minecraft-odroid
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package minecraft-odroid
odroid@odroid-xu4:~$

[meveric]

my repository all/main package list http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f ... 08&p=47148

[pichu123]

I'm thinking about buying a U2 from Ameridroid (recertified.) Will this work for it? I think that the U2 is 32-bit

[meveric]

Generally it will work, but it's hard to tell what the performance will be like, it's a rather demanding game.

[linuxgnuru]

is it the game that makes it demanding or that it's java? Would a native C++ port of minecraft run better? (if such a thing were even doable)

[meveric]

both.. the game uses OpenGL and uses Java to run it.. OpenGL is not supported by ODROIDs and we need to use a wrapper for OpenGL to OpenGL ES but that wrapper can only use some OpenGL 1.x functions, while the game would rather have OpenGL 2.x which we don't support.

There are some "similar" games like "freeminer" which are C based and use Irrlicht engine as a renderer, these games run much better, since Irrlicht also exists for OpenGL ES. So we have native OpenGL ES support.
BUT these games are remakes, and you can't play on the original servers.

[nightengale]

I am really sorry for being dense here, but just trying to get Minecraft installed on an odroid XU4. Do I need to add the entire list of repositories or just the first one? Am thinking I somehow fragged my system and need to reimage because tons of errors when I try to apt-get Minecraft.

[meveric]

only the all/main repository is needed for this.

[nightengale]

Thanks for the reply and for all of your work on this. Managed to get it running but now can't figure out how to install the OptiFine mod for 1.9.4 -- MagicLauncher .jar to install the mod opens to a grey box. Have no clue what I may be doing wrong.

[Zelestial]

I have a odroid xu4 and been playing minecraft I been trying to get out as much fps as I can. And its all still low fps. There is also glitches with dyed items just being white. I use optfine and did the settings and I think the low fps is because minecraft is using open GL 2. So I was wandering how I can get it to use open GL 3.
Oh yeah I also cant do mods because forge needs open GL 3 as well.

Edit: what i need i think is LWJGL 2.9 or 3 but can not find it for arm.

[meveric]

OpenGL 3 is not supported.
OpenGL 2 might work though, as newer versions of gl4es support OpenGL 2 now.
Please note ODROIDs DO NOT support OpenGL at all.. they only support OpenGL ES, and we use a wrapper that transforms OpenGL calls to OpenGL ES.

[Zelestial]

OpenGL 3 is not supported.
OpenGL 2 might work though, as newer versions of gl4es support OpenGL 2 now.
Please note ODROIDs DO NOT support OpenGL at all.. they only support OpenGL ES, and we use a wrapper that transforms OpenGL calls to OpenGL ES.

Oh ok

[brownieman]

@meverick . I used your Minecraft install on an Odroid Xu-4 and erverything worked great...except, when I open the Minecraft launcher - the log is telling me "an update to your launcher is available and is required to play 1.14.4". Relaunching the launcher does not help. It looks like the new Minecraft client is no longer using regular java. Any chance there is an install available with the new launcher?

[meveric]

To be honest I haven't checked on Minecraft in ages.
By now we have newer and better libGL (gl4es) version that would support more features, but Java was very complicated to work with.
If it now doesn't even use "regular" Java anymore who knows what new issues this introduces.

Currently I don't feel I have to time to look into this any time soon... I'll see what I can find out, but I wouldn't get my hopes up.

[brownieman]

sounds good - Ill try some alternative methods to try to get Minecraft working on an Odroid. Thanks so much for the reply!