you can see through the sides of chunks now because the chunks (correctly!) note that their underground sides faces are obscured. it's just that they're obscured by chunks you can't see because they haven't fully been generated yet
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you can see through the sides of chunks now because the chunks (correctly!) note that their underground sides faces are obscured. it's just that they're obscured by chunks you can't see because they haven't fully been generated yet
decided to add some simple caverns so it's not noodle caves all the way down
@eniko Time to throw the generator on another thread! 😄
@jsbarretto i fixed it for now by only running one generator per frame >_>
@eniko @jsbarretto This is secretly what I do, I had these grand plans of making a separate world server which can handle async loading and storing and generating world chunks as needed without bogging down the main thread
But then .. I just didn't do that and instead made it generate up to N chunks per frame and store everything in RAM and it's been working well so far :)
(Granted, 2D is WAAAAY simpler to work with than 3D for this)
@eniko Aha, the PWM approach! I remember doing this years ago in my Game Maker voxel game (GM didn't have multi-threading). It certainly gets the job done. If you wanted to calibrate it for the performance of the device you could throw generator requests into a work queue, then use the 'idle' time at the end of each frame to do generator work.
@jsbarretto i'll move it to threads eventually but it's kind of tricky with how chunks need to touch their neighbors in order to fully generate so i just haven't bothered with that complexity for the moment
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