Notices by Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org), page 4

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

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

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

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

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)

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.

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

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

I have been the subject of a prolonged and coordinated campaign of hate and harassment in retaliation for using my platform to express progressive views and challenge hate. But I want to take a second to acknowledge the real victims here.

As a gamer,

@lanodan I just yote the tip of the master branch so I could do some rebasing without working around it, git pushed and then unyote it with this command, guesstimating that 2 hours was plenty

Here's a fun thing you may not have known you can do with git

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

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

More faithful sky rendering

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

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

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.

Also annoying

This one was annoying for sure

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

Today: edge cases galore and little else

(Actually I also did some lighting refactoring)