Notices by Angle (angle@anticapitalist.party), page 11

Poked at height maps some more, and covered everything in moss so I could see things better. Still needs a LOT of work. XD

Like figuring out what all the random z-fighting is about. That really shouldn't be happening... :/

Well, think I know where the X-fighting is coming from, now I just need to figure out how to fix it. In the meantime, I went ahead and allowed specifying coverage for a siide - and used that to implement some simple grass, and covered everything in that, instead of moss. looks a bit better, I think. XD

Yeah I found the source of the z-fighting - but, it means I gotta rewrite basically my whole mesh optimization algorithm. It was pretty lazy in the beginning, to be honest, but still. :/

On the other hand, it WAS pretty lazy in the beginning, and I might know a better way to do it? Hmmm. :/

Okay, so I fixed the Z-fighting, and I didn't actually have to rewrite that much of the algorithm. I did make it messier though, and it was already pretty messy, so come cleanup is probably in order... :/

Just gonna throw out there, this game is open source, and I'd be happy to explain how it works to anyone who is curious:

https://gitlab.com/AngularAngel/omnicraft/

https://discord.gg/AH89mfd6RF

Fixed an issue with the z-direction for the value noise I was using for world gen, allowed for unlimited heightmap generation, and added chunk border display to the debug screen. Now I have to decide what I want to do next for worldgen... :/

Right turns out my value noise implementation was actually pretty borked. Fixed that up, it looks a lot better now I think. XD

Well, I'm working on perlin noise now. Few issues, I'll be honest... XD

Fixed it up some, but the resulting values from said perlin noise go negaitve sometimes, which isn't what I want. Brute force fix works okay though I guess? :/

Alright, I think I have a much better understanding of perlin noise now, and I cleaned up my perlin and value noise functions a bunch. Still doesn;t quite work the way I want it too - the peaks aren's as high as they should be, specifically, and it's really messy. I'm gonna read up on simplex noise next, and try and implement that, I think.

I'm trying simplex noise now. I think I mostly understand it, at least so far, though this paper is mentioning hypercubes a lot more than I was expecting it to. XD

Got it working! But my frequency is waaaaaay too high. XD

Thaaaat's better. Probably want to turn that down more, but it's at least in a somewhat reasonable range. XD

Now, what next? Do I keep messing with terrain? Maybe try for continents, via voronoi, or erosion of some sort, or both? Or do I move on to lighting or collision or something for now? :/

Working on redoing the way i track some low level information for moving through the world. Still a little buggy, but making progress! XD

Okay there we go. all fixed. XD

Now for the skybox! Very boring atm, but a start. I can fancy up the shader for it later.

Right now I'm thinking about how much data I want to dedicate to lighting. I kinda want my lighting to range from total darkness to blindingly bright. If I do that with just 4 bits per lighting value, it means I need to stretch the 16 possible values over like, twice as much total distance.