Notices by Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org), page 5

Currently sitting at about 3000 lines of code all said

Moar chunk, sourced directly from a region file I have lying around in ~/.minecraft

cc @SRAZKVT, you were curious about this

Block lighting

It has some limitations, first, it assumes full daylight at all times, second, it cannot retrieve lighting information across chunk boundaries

Fog

Quick break from real work to add clouds

Ended up just calling this a "twoquad"

Is there a name for the 3D object which has two upright quads in an "X" configuration

@SRAZKVT I've implemented a minecraft client before, I'm well aware...

Cursed

Expanding the renderer a bit more. Some placeholder for water that looks less ugly than before, better transparency support in general, and I've stopped generating meshes for occluded faces. Generating geometry in about 2ms on this machine which is close enough to my performance goals for now

Swapped out my GPU earlier which is why this dropped to 30 FPS while recording, the performance is still fine

Same location rendered by Minecraft beta 1.7.3

Better

Behold: a chunk

Added Minecraft-style ambient lighting because it was easy and makes it look a lot nicer

(~2000 FPS when vsync is disabled and I'm not recording the screen on the crappier GPU)

Next up is to render more than one chunk, add some simple lighting, and flesh out special cases for rendering like torches.

Behold: you can look

Added some stuff to the debug overlay to procrastinate generating terrain geometry

(FPS hangs out around 1700 on this machine when vsync is disabled, for the curious)

Behold: some text

Behold: a sprite

Code is a bit messy since I'm remembering how to write OpenGL code in real time as I work on it