Overhead camera, fewer crashes. No shadows.
Update!
It’s the new overhead camera. Killing monsters will be much better with it. It’s activated by pressing F5 key second time. Camera distance is changed by using mouse wheel with LCtrl pressed.
Fixes:
- Draw progress bar and server name and motd when connecting to a multiplayer server.
- Better compression of map state – group changed blocks into chunks and compress raw chunks. (Before: 1165 KB, Now: 211 KB).
- Generate maps in fortress mode based on random seed, not just always the same.
- Switch to fullscreen using F11 key.
- Fewer crashes. Game should now run on Windows 7 without administrator account. Highest fog setting no longer crashes. Fixed random multiplayer crashes.
I tried to add shadows, but the main problem is that they slow down chunk loading to 20%-50% of current speed. I think only slowdown to around 75% is acceptable. Shadows also cause lag on multiplayer, when many players build at the same time. So, shadows implementation is around 20% complete and is disabled.
Thus it turns out that the shadows are calculated on the server and sent to the client? Maybe they should be recreated directly on the client computer?
Shadows are calculated on client. By “lag” I meant delay from the time set-block command is received from network to the time shadows are calculated and new chunk appears on screen.
Single set-block requires to Deflood light (flood blackness until blackness found or light source found) and then Reflood again the light sources found – processing blocks in up to 8 (27 when using more than chunksize/2=8 shadow steps) chunks around the main block.
Also shadows are a purely visual effect – if they do not alter game logic, then they can be computed in background thread, only slowing chunk updates, but never slowing down fps.
Minecraft did it first.
Minecraft is better. This looks stupid and unoriginal.
Drink Bleach.
Agree
Manic digger is a ripoff
acctually if you check the earliest entries in this blog and the earliest entries in minecrafts blog you will see that this was first mentioned you will see that both are in early may
Useless (bad) copy of minecraft. Don’t you have an ounce of imagination?
many thanks !! so much usefull story!