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# FAQ |
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### How accurate is this as a Minecraft viewer? |
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Not very. Many Minecraft blocks are not handled correctly: |
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* No redstone, rails, or other "flat" blocks |
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* No signs, doors, fences, carpets, or other complicated geometry |
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* Stairs are turned into ramps |
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* Upper slabs turn into lower slabs |
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* Only one wood type |
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* Colored glass becomes regular glass |
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* Glass panes become glass blocks |
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* Water level is incorrect |
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* No biome coloration |
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* Cactus is not shrunk, shows holes |
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* Chests are not shrunk |
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* Chests, pumpkins, etc. are not rotated properly |
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* Torches are drawn hackily, do not attach to walls |
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* Incorrect textures for blocks that postdate terrain.png |
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* Transparent textures have black fringes due to non-premultiplied-alpha |
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* Only blocks at y=1..255 are shown (not y=0) |
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* If a 32x32x256 "quad-chunk" needs more than 800K quads, isn't handled (very unlikely) |
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Some of these are due to engine limitations, and some of |
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these are because I didn't make the effort since my |
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goal was to make a demo for stb_voxel_render.h, not |
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to make a proper Minecraft viewer. |
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### Could this be turned into a proper Minecraft viewer? |
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Yes and no. Yes, you could do it, but no, it wouldn't |
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really resemble this code that much anymore. |
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You could certainly use this engine to |
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render the parts of Minecraft it works for, but many |
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of the things it doesn't handle it can't handle at all |
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(stairs, water, fences, carpets, etc) because it uses |
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low-precision coordinates to store voxel data. |
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You would have to render all of the stuff it doesn't |
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handle through another rendering path. In a game (not |
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a viewer) you would need such a path for movable entities |
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like doors and carts anyway, so possibly handling other |
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things that way wouldn't be so bad. |
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Rails, ladders, and redstone lines could be implemented by |
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using tex2 to overlay those effects, but you can't rotate |
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tex1 and tex2 independently, so you'd have to have a |
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separate texture for each orientation of rail, etc, and |
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you'd need special rendering for rail up/down sections. |
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You can use the face-color effect to do biome coloration, |
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but the change won't be smooth the way it is in Minecraft. |
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### Why isn't building the mesh data faster? |
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Partly because converting from minecraft data is expensive. |
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Here is the approximate breakdown of an older version |
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of this executable and lib that did the building single-threaded, |
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and was a bit slower at building mesh data. |
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* 25% loading & parsing minecraft files (4/5ths of this is my zlib) |
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* 18% converting from minecraft blockids & lighting to stb blockids & lighting |
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* 10% reordering from data[z][y]\[x] (minecraft-style) to data[y][x]\[z] (stb-style) |
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* 40% building mesh data |
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* 7% uploading mesh data to OpenGL |
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I did do significant optimizations after the above, so the |
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final breakdown is different, but it should give you some |
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sense of the costs. |
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