AETHER

AETHER is an OpenGL-implemented 3D air combat game, developping as a project for ZJU course "Computer Graphics" (fall 2025).

This project is cross-platform and plan to support Windows and MacOS.

Installation

Prebuilt Binaries

Prebuilt binaries for Windows and MacOS are available in the Releases page.

From Source

Make sure you have installed the following dependencies:

• git
• CMake
• C++ compiler (e.g. g++, clang++, LLVM-MinGW, MinGW, MSVC, etc.)
• OpenGL

For MacOS users, you need extra dependencies:

• Cocoa
• IOKit

You can install AETHER by the following steps:

1. Clone the repository and pull submodules:

   git clone https://github.com/rzm0572/Aether.git
   cd Aether
   git submodule update --init --recursive
   
   # build assimp
   cd repo/assimp
   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
   make

2. run CMake to generate project files:

   For Windows:

   cmake -B build -S . -G "MinGW Makefiles"

   Note: It is recommended to use llvm-mingw to compile the project on Windows.

   For MacOS / Linux:

   cmake -B build -S .

3. Build and install the project:

   cmake --build build
   cmake --install build

   The executable file will be installed to bin directory.

Usage

To run the game, simply execute the ./aether command in the bin directory. Enjoy!