Procedural block world project

Gonzo · Post by **Gonzo** » Jan 17, 2012 22:24

a new version will be posted.. maybe next weekend

working on a new kind of noise, that i just made up
this is 1 layer (1 function call) to my noise function:
http://fbcraft.fwsnet.net/cosnoise.png

Gonzo · Post by **Gonzo** » Jan 20, 2012 20:20

no build this weekend
working on other forms of generation

as an example
http://fbcraft.fwsnet.net/varrad.png

kiyotewolf · Post by **kiyotewolf** » Jan 20, 2012 23:58

Laputa, The Castle In The Sky..

made out of very large voxels..

Gonzo · Post by **Gonzo** » Jan 22, 2012 21:05

http://fbcraft.fwsnet.net/laputa.png
=)

kiyotewolf · Post by **kiyotewolf** » Jan 23, 2012 2:03

very neat!

Gonzo · Post by **Gonzo** » Jan 28, 2012 0:36

a bleak world without trees
http://fbcraft.klk-computers.com/better.png

agamemnus · Post by **agamemnus** » Jan 29, 2012 1:19

Awesome screens, but the gui is off-balance as usual. I don't like the strangely angled and very big compass... make it a gyroscope!

Lachie Dazdarian · Post by **Lachie Dazdarian** » Jan 29, 2012 17:46

Wonderful new screenshots!

Gonzo · Post by **Gonzo** » Feb 03, 2012 23:56

patience is a virtue, and its never failed me

finally made progress on cosnoise

maybe i should do a paper on it =)

h4tt3n · Post by **h4tt3n** » Feb 06, 2012 15:51

Gonzo, I never got around to it, but I just want to say that your project rocks hard. There's so much atmosphere in those screenshots.

Gonzo · Post by **Gonzo** » Feb 07, 2012 1:49

i will probably post a new build this weekend =)
its been a really hard two weeks for me, rewriting some core parts several times day out and day in, just so i can see the whole picture
i have found a solution that somehow brought mouselag, but much better fps...
an explanation is in order...
the game is now fully 3d, as in, i can no longer optimize away visibility underground, nor are there lots of dense material under ground.. no longer is there a huge flat plane of water thats basically an optimized mesh that also covers at least 50% of the underwater seabed
due to these nightmare conditions the floating islands have approx. 7M vertices that i must draw while considering:
the amount of time it takes to ...
1. assemble them (less surface optimizations and less sorting = faster)
2. upload them to gpu (less objects = less sorting)
3. decide wether or not they are in frustum (less objects = less cputime)
4. hide invisible things (less objects over time = less cpu % and exponentially less gpu %)
5. render geometry (less vertices = less gpu core %)

in the end, i made it render complex islands at decent speed almost without the mouselag
(which i dont know why exists... maybe theres gpu queue trashing and waiting...)

as to if the engine now works well on computers worse off than mine? probably not...
this machine is intended as the lower bar... its a i7-720QM (quad core) laptop with a geforce GTS 360M (mobile) GPU
the harddrive performance is not good, nor bad, but it doesnt affect the gameplay

also, obligatory image
http://fbcraft.fwsnet.net/inthedark1.png
http://fbcraft.fwsnet.net/inthedark2.png

Gonzo · Post by **Gonzo** » Feb 10, 2012 20:34

..must..make jungle

http://fbcraft.fwsnet.net/jungle2.png
http://fbcraft.fwsnet.net/jungle3.png
http://fbcraft.fwsnet.net/jungle4.png
http://fbcraft.fwsnet.net/jungle5.png

hard to optimize a zillion trees' vertices

also, if you ever make a game, pranking your testers is part of the job!
http://fbcraft.fwsnet.net/prison.png

Gonzo · Post by **Gonzo** » Feb 12, 2012 0:31

Gonzo · Post by **Gonzo** » Feb 14, 2012 16:28

added xbox controller support

and, ladies playing drew a womanly model:
http://i.imgur.com/djgtU.jpg

dafhi · Post by **dafhi** » Feb 24, 2012 15:10

Gonzo your cosnoise is unlike anything I have experienced.

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