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   Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 06:51:54 JST Drew DeVault

   It took me a long time to realize that the "temperature" that goes into the sky color calculation was not the "temperature" of the biome itself but rather the "temperature" of the noise function that Minecraft uses to pick the biome. Also it's *not* HSL, it's HSV.

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 06:51:53 JST Drew DeVault

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     Today: edge cases galore and little else

     (Actually I also did some lighting refactoring)

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 06:51:53 JST Drew DeVault

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     Same location rendered by betamine and Minecraft, the latter with "fancy" graphics and "smooth lighting" (ambient occlusion) disabled

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 06:51:53 JST Drew DeVault

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     This one was annoying for sure

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 06:51:53 JST Drew DeVault

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     Also annoying

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 06:51:54 JST Drew DeVault

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     Anyway the sky colors are much more faithful to Minecraft now.

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 06:51:54 JST Drew DeVault

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     More faithful sky rendering

     Still missing stars, though. Next step is to update the terrain lighting along with the day/night cycle

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 20:43:54 JST Drew DeVault

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     Some stuff to look forward to nearish term:

     - Models for stairs, "twoquads" (e.g. flowers) and "onequads" (e.g. ladders)
     - Animated textures
     - Finalizing the lighting system and day/night cycle
     - Stars in the night sky
     - Particle effects for e.g. torches

     After that it will probably make sense to pause rendering to flesh out the chunk manager and connect it to a server

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 20:43:55 JST Drew DeVault

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     Lots of Real Work to do today so no betamine updates unless I clear my plate

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:08 JST Drew DeVault

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     Implementing Minecraft beta 1.7.3 from scratch in #harelang, day 7, browsing Dialko's survival world:

     https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/beta-1-7-3-survival-world/

     Code: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/betamine

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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:08 JST Wolf480pl

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     @drewdevault
     > beta 1.7.3

     that was a fine vintage

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:09 JST Drew DeVault

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     Terrain renderer's back, now integrated into a dynamic chunk manager!

     Watch that FPS counter drop like a rock -- there are still a number of performance improvements I have to do (e.g. frustrum culling) and chunks are never actually *un*loaded once loaded

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:09 JST Drew DeVault

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     Added some key performance indicators to the debug overlay: (C)hunks rendered, (V)erticies rendered, and the ratio (V/C). The goal is to bring all of these number down.

     63M verticies is entirely too many for the scene shown here -- the tesselator needs to find more opportunities to reduce the V/C count, and frustrum culling needs to reduce the number of chunks rendered as well.

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:09 JST Drew DeVault

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     For culling I'm going to start with culling entire chunks but I have a few reasons to suppose that splitting chunks into 16x16x16 cubes would have performance gains in frustrum culling but also in a few other places as well, like re-tesselation when a chunk is changed (e.g. by placing/removing a block)

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:10 JST Drew DeVault

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     Instead of doing anything I said I would do today, I am working on reorganizing the code into something resembling an actual game, like moving the render loop out of main() and making the list of render layers and updated modules dynamic instead of hardcoded

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:10 JST Drew DeVault

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     Here's today's exciting screenshot, in which the terrain renderer is missing while a bunch of code is refactored to improve the world management and rendering pipeline

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:10 JST Drew DeVault

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     No pretty graphics but here's today's improved Minecraft world format implementation

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:10 JST Drew DeVault

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     I am aware that some of those chunk coordinates are wrong and I have fixed the problem

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:11 JST Drew DeVault

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     Blender is broken in Alpine and let me tell you manually trial-and-erroring vertex positions and UV mappings in its absence is not very fun

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:11 JST Drew DeVault

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     Got the "twoquads" done

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:11 JST Drew DeVault

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     "FIRETEX!", my old friend

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 05:43:11 JST Drew DeVault

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     Had a lot of Real Work to do today so that's probably all for betamine today. Tomorrow I might do "onequads" (like rails and ladders) and set it up to fetch chunks from regions dynamically (and explore the whole world).

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 21:55:59 JST Drew DeVault

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     Back up to a more reasonable framerate with unloading of distant chunks and frustrum culling in place (note C is given as a ratio now)

     However, lots of verticies still need to go by making chunk tesselation aware of neighboring chunks (and not unconditionally rendering faces on chunk boundaries).