Notices by Angle (angle@anticapitalist.party), page 7

Okay, drawing all six faces with optimized meshes, much better. Now I just need to clean my code up again, cause it's a little messy. XD

Yeah this bug is still here though. :/

Anyway, now I just need to clean up the code some and then I'm going to work on block stacking - that is, having multiple different bits of block data in one voxel. So you can stack slabs, or have piles of stuff on a desk, or have a solid block with a crack in it and a layer of dirt on top of that, or the like.

Though to start with, it's just gonna be the solid block modifiers, as I haven't programmed slabs or anything else yet. XD

Admittedly, it would look a lot better if I had a better texture generation algorithm. Might revisit once I've got that. XD

Huh. Do I want to switch over my chunks to tracking blocks by id's first though? Right now it's all java's object references, so I should be able to save space by assigning ints as id's and then looking those up when referenced... But that'd also make the code a bit slower, and I have no idea if it's necessary. Hmm. :/

Anyway, for the moment I'm working on that lighting propagation algorithm. I figured out the bitwise manipulation required, and I wrote the algorithm, now I just need to actually integrate it into my code. :/

Yeah I'm not gonna worry about this part yet, I think. Just gonna tackle block stacking for now.

Alright, so I changed my mind about block stacking. Rather, I'm just gonna create a new kind of block as necessary, or use block entities, or something. And I'm gonna also track sides - so, if you make a house, and then paint the outside red, the paint is tracked separately from the blocks.

Th first one also shows a lighting bug where things aren't updated properly when they get lit up, as well. :/

I already started implementing this, but at some point I made it lag on startup. Shouldn't be too hard to fix, as I haven't actually added much new data, just changed it's structure, but I'm still trying to get the profiler to work.

Oh, so a friend suggested I use KD Trees to store chunk data, instead of octrees. What do you all think about that? I'm not sure how well I could make it work - it sounds complicated. I should at least be able to hide all that complexity inside the chunks, though, so that's not to bad. :/

Well, got the lighting update bug taken care of, and even more refactoring. Might push sky light propagation off till tomorrow though. :/

Alright, got a basic implementation for sides going. Now I just need to make it less programmer arty...

Better, but still plenty of room for improvement. XD

See? Step up. XD

Alright, got diagonal propagation implemented, but it's extremely laggy, and it causes my game to run out of memory and crash if I try and do all of the sky channels at once. XD

Alright, I think this is good for now. I'll probably come back to it later. All the textures need more attention, really, but that can wait.

Soo, now I think it's time to figure out block metadata, and maybe block entities? Not sure. :/

Actually, maybe I should leave block data and entities until I actually know what I want to do with them. So, maybe I should focus on implementing stuff so I'd actually want to use metadata. I think for now, that would mean actually allowing interaction with the world - collision detection and block picking (Selecting the block the user is looking directly at), specifically.