I finally got a chance to really try SMP when it's actually possible to die, and it is so much fuggen fun. There's also a lot of possibilities for new games, too, like a snowball fight over a pit of lava (snowballs can't hurt you but can push you off a pillar into lava, for example)
If Notch fixes terrain generation and adds even some of the stuff he is talking about adding, this game will be pretty bad ass. For me, though, the current terrain generation is a deal breaker for SSP, the terrain is way too boring now.
If Notch fixes terrain generation and adds even some of the stuff he is talking about adding, this game will be pretty bad ass. For me, though, the current terrain generation is a deal breaker for SSP, the terrain is way too boring now.
Isaac":w8fqoxfw said:
Lies. You will want to keep eating, and breathing, and living too. Jerk.
No, just kidding, but actually optimizing the rendering of cubes is actually pretty tough.The way you do occlusion culling is you render the bounding box of each object and check to see if the bounding box would be visible. The problem is, each object in Minecraft is already a box. Likewise, in other games, you can reduce the number of triangles by simplifying objects that are far away, so a 20,000 poly character becomes a 2 poly imposter. For cubes, the best you can hope for is from 12 polys to 2 polys, and there's processing power you have to waste to generate the imposter for all the cubes, and then that ends up being more resources used than if you just rendered the cubes.
Instead, you've got to come up with new tricks. Though, it would help if he wasn't using a bad wrapper for a bad language lol. The price for portability/compatibility!
Ha, that sounds bad ass. In the SMP world me and a friend have we had something similar. It was a chasm them led straight down to water and Lava. I didn't know the lava was there until I used the water to drown a zombie and went down and saw the obsidian underneath lol. What's funny is we had to do very little digging. We happened to build our first house right on top of a cavern, dug down about 6 blocks and found it. Then one leg of that cavern was like 6 blocks or so from another big one.
Such a useful tool.
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I'm still building my massive pyramid. And I have so much cobblestone it's not even funny. I think it's time I leveled out another area and put that cobble to good use.
Oh, hey, by the way, everyone should bring this to more attention because if he doesn't fix the terrain generation i'mma be mad lol
http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topic ... generation
http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topic ... generation
merry christmas: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/2175441966 ... er-20-2010
yesss official modding support
I think I should avoid the SA Minecraft thread for a while, though. I can imagine a couple people dominating that thread with whinging about
narrative in my lego game
and probably also characterizing Notch as Wario for removing the "access to the finished product" clause from purchases after the 20th.
more internal testing sounds like it'll make everyone happy, though.
apparently the spriter Notch hired has arrived and will start work soon! I forget his name, but I've seen some of his work and the man is amazing. should be able to juggle Minecraft's blocky appearance with richness of detail no problem.
also apparently Notch is adding synthesizers to the game! stack blocks on another block type, power it with redstone. height of stack determines pitch, material determines sound. it sounds like timing everything to make a song of any length would be a little tough, but I'm expecting a lot of cool videos by people with the patience to deal with it to pop up after it's added.
I think I should avoid the SA Minecraft thread for a while, though. I can imagine a couple people dominating that thread with whinging about
more internal testing sounds like it'll make everyone happy, though.
apparently the spriter Notch hired has arrived and will start work soon! I forget his name, but I've seen some of his work and the man is amazing. should be able to juggle Minecraft's blocky appearance with richness of detail no problem.
also apparently Notch is adding synthesizers to the game! stack blocks on another block type, power it with redstone. height of stack determines pitch, material determines sound. it sounds like timing everything to make a song of any length would be a little tough, but I'm expecting a lot of cool videos by people with the patience to deal with it to pop up after it's added.
honestly, his language is a little vague. DLC seems like a bit of a stretch, though; he's never mentioned microtransactions before, and they'd probably be a horrible idea anyway (especially since the modding community is so extreme)
expansions might be what he means, but I'm not sure what there is to expand.
expansions might be what he means, but I'm not sure what there is to expand.