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ARTS and Warcrafts posted:I had to look these two up. Jesus, UK. Technically you should blame the French for those two  Is there any word on when the next actual update (not snapshot) might be? I am basically just waiting on the modding API at present before I want to play the game again.
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Fuego Fish posted:Technically you should blame the French for those two Last Jeb said was "March" if I remember right.
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Feb 3, 2012 23:30
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I don't have access to Twitter at work, mind reposting them here? Try this link. Can't grab the image myself as I'm not on my main computer. Page through the pics on this page if the link works. (Hopefully it does, the Xbox site always crashes mobile safari because of the million redirects it creates.) marketplace.xbox.com/252fsv-SE/252fProduct/252fMinecraft/252f66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802584111f7&lc=1053&id=66262
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ARTS and Warcrafts posted:I had to look these two up. Jesus, UK. What do you call them? Wahad posted:Zucchini and eggplant, respectively.  Mr. Gibbycrumbles fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Feb 4, 2012 |
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Feb 4, 2012 00:19
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Zucchini and eggplant, respectively.
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:What do you call them? Does that smiley mean you've never heard of zucchini and eggplant?
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Feb 4, 2012 00:49
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:What do you call them? At least you didn't have to learn what an aubergine is from a porn site.
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messagemode1 posted:Does that smiley mean you've never heard of zucchini and eggplant? Never heard of zucchini. I think I've heard of eggplant but I had no idea it meant aubergine. It's a bit like finding out you call a banana a flimbleflam, or an apple an arsetrumpet or something.
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You mean you've never had an arsetrumpet before?
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In america, we spell it "asstrumpet" 
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Feb 4, 2012 02:09
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JoeCool posted:You mean you've never had an arsetrumpet before? To be fair, asstrumpet & peelers is a pretty distinctly American breakfast.
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pseudorandom name posted:Imagine that brick wall has an open door in it. Why doesn't Jeb bring back finite worlds? Honestly, I think it would make the "end game" more cohesive, as dumb as it is, because you only have that set amount of land to explore, whatever. With infinite worlds, the game just goes on forever, but with finite worlds, you have just your one island, then you move to the nether, to your stronghold, then to the end or whatever - you could alter the size of your map and terrain gen poo poo, but theoretically your world would have one of everything. It's up to you how to play the game, what to do and poo poo, because I doubt many people want to go to The End, but I said before a long time ago, it would allow for smaller maps and more customization towards your computers performance. The last time I was on Reddit the nerds where were whining about obscure poo poo they had trolled the wiki for, like sheep eating grass, and bemoaned the loss of that rather useless feature, and Jeb is bringing it back, so why not bring back finite maps?
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To be honest tho, it is much easier to implement stuff like frustum culling on voxels since there is a very well defined bounding box ;I So thats that atleast, instead of portals you get a very nice model to place QuadTree + frustum culling over so you can decide pretty quickly what chunks to render and not. Then there is the whole optimize the chunks part too.. "oh you are within my view, ok, well, can I see you or is there something in the way? And how many cpu cycles can I spend pre-calcing this without it taking 1 hour to load the map?". My lil playground that I've basically done today have a quadtree + frustum culling implementation that is fairly nice already. 64*64*64 grid gradually split down to 4*4*4 chunks with raw block data. The plan is to mark chunks as invisible, if all children of a quad tree node is invisible then that node is invisible too, that will sort out alot of useless tests and rendering. Each chunk should also set up VBOs for fast rendering in a "smart way"(tm) and only rebuild VBOs when they are updated (alien creepers (tm)).
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I feel like the "end game" for Minecraft is custom maps with specific mod packs for each map (so you don't have to say "only break clay blocks" and then a creeper takes out a wall anyway), but toward that end I really hope that making finite maps is enabled in the mod API, and further that they could have custom topologies. Worlds that can wrap around could have interesting applications, but most interesting in my opinion is wrapping vertically or even more complicated sorts of wrapping as well as what such maps could mean for multiplayer "race for the wool" maps. Also, just curious, but Minecraft only keeps track of the surfaces of normal blocks that are exposed to non-normal blocks, right? Also, it saves that information to disk when it saves each chunk, right? As in, it doesn't recalculate which surfaces it has to render every time a chunk loads, does it?
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Yeah, the engine doesn't have any surface data for blocks that have solid neighbors on all sides. Last time I looked at the chunk save file format, it doesn't store the render data (vertices, normals, texture coordinates), just the block data. However, from my own tinkering an algorithm to generate the render data typically doesn't take very long to run.
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Oh, huh, I guess my intuition is way off then. I was thinking that might be one of the biggest slow-downs in visually loading chunks in single-player because there are typically more total blocks in a chunk than surfaces that need to be rendered... but I guess if their long-term intent is to make single-player and multiplayer work identically, then you wouldn't want to have servers sending out render data anyway.
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What are the current decent minecraft server hosts? We're looking for about 10-12 people to be able to play.
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Disappointing Pie posted:What are the current decent minecraft server hosts? We're looking for about 10-12 people to be able to play. Minehost and Akliz are also both good if you're looking for goon-run hosts.
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New trailer out for cube world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4s2jdV7_dA This game makes minecraft look so bad.
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Feb 4, 2012 18:12
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Senator Woofington posted:This game makes minecraft look so bad. They're really completely different games though. Isn't Cube World strictly a co-op RPG?
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Feb 4, 2012 18:21
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babies havin rabies posted:They're really completely different games though. Isn't Cube World strictly a co-op RPG? It seems like a cubic world with a focus on adventuring and fighting as opposed to minecraft which is a cubic world with a focus on building and a false sense of adventuring and fighting.
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Feb 4, 2012 18:27
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Spectral Werewolf posted:It seems like a cubic world with a focus on adventuring and fighting as opposed to minecraft which is a cubic world with a focus on building and a false sense of adventuring and fighting. Yeah I would agree. Just checked out the blog and wasn't aware that he added buildings to the game. The item customization looks really promising as well, and it seems as if you can play as any creature in the game.
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Feb 4, 2012 18:31
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babies havin rabies posted:They're really completely different games though. Isn't Cube World strictly a co-op RPG? I don't care, the art direction in Cube World is something I wish Minecraft had. It looks beautiful.
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Vertigus posted:I don't care, the art direction in Cube World is something I wish Minecraft had. It looks beautiful. It does, but it doesn't read as cleanly as Minecraft and is built on a very different scale. Having a preference for one or the other is reasonable, but I don't think they're honestly similar enough that Cube World could be called better.
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Cephalocidal posted:It does, but it doesn't read as cleanly as Minecraft and is built on a very different scale. Having a preference for one or the other is reasonable, but I don't think they're honestly similar enough that Cube World could be called better. It would probably be easier if you defined what minecraft was to begin with. I mean, how do you play minecraft? It's essentially legos with some mobs and interesting terrain. A big prototype but very little direction.
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poemdexter posted:It would probably be easier if you defined what minecraft was to begin with. I mean, how do you play minecraft? It's essentially legos with some mobs and interesting terrain. A big prototype but very little direction. I believe the term is 'sandbox'
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quote:Q: How do you create this game? ALLAH AKBAR Wish he would have an OpenGL version for Linux 
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I really hope the character models are customizable a la 3D Dot Game Heroes. I've wanted that in minecraft since pre-infdev.
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Christo posted:I really hope the character models are customizable a la 3D Dot Game Heroes. I've wanted that in minecraft since pre-infdev. I think it might be. In that video linked above it shows someone upgrading their weapon and designing it how they want.
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Fayez Butts posted:Nice little castle, dude! I've been making a couple small castles myself and was thinking of starting a little competition, actually. I would love to see who can cram the most stuff into the smallest space (specifically 16x16 -- up to 18x18 for greebles) with the most character. I liked the idea of putting limits on the size. I marked a 12x12 space and started to build, at first didn't know what to do but after putting some blocks i made a tower.    Downstairs we can find my pool  where i can put some music and relax after a long day of moving blocks,  If we go upstairs we can find a meeting room  and the bedroom  It was interesting putting limits on the size, i had to rebuild parts of the tower a couple times trying to build stairs and at the same time not modifying what i tried to do in each room.
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I can't count. *removed due to largness* maybe smaller is nice.. 
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Bicehunter posted:I can't count. Looks good. When do you plan on adding the hunger meter?
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Hey everyone, wanted to let you know we've just finished a big new page layout update for the Painterly site, largely thanks to the efforts of fellow goon Pixotic. Everything should be a fair bit cleaner now, and run a lot more smoothly and display more consistently in different browsers. It also lays a ton of important back end groundwork you can't yet see for eventually cleaning up and modernizing the customizer code, to make it a lot more user friendly and allow for some pretty neat potential down the road database-driven features such as database-driven preview images and whatnot. There's also a widget thing for patch notes now, as well as one for a twitter feed so you can get update information there instead of chancing by it in this thread. I hope everyone likes it - the page was crumbling and made in notepad-written HTML in far too many spots and really needed this overhaul to keep running. So you can now continue to get your textures in relative stability and with increased ease of use. 
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a starwar betamax posted:Looks good. When do you plan on adding the hunger meter? No hunger-meter, its to mainstream. I'm gonna add some quirky indiecharm to it. There will be an annoyance-meter. Whenever a stone-like block breaks there will be a chance that you will be hit by pepples that will increase annoyance with 1. Annoyance will affect the speed of breaking blocks in a bad way. The only way to remove annoyance is to craft choclate-chip cookies. Ofc the cocoa beans won't be added until later on and then only as random loot from dungeon chests. 
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I don't know if it's been mentioned, but lava slimes now drop magma cream, which is used to make fire res potions.
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Bicehunter posted:Dope landfill biome
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Bicehunter posted:No hunger-meter, its to mainstream. I'm gonna add some quirky indiecharm to it.
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poemdexter posted:It would probably be easier if you defined what minecraft was to begin with. I mean, how do you play minecraft? It's essentially legos with some mobs and interesting terrain. A big prototype but very little direction. I meant visually. Gameplay-wise, I can't say from firsthand experience what Cube World offers. I've got high hopes though.
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Schwarzwald posted:I don't know if it's been mentioned, but lava slimes now drop magma cream, which is used to make fire res potions. Good. It was so hard to get before, you had to find the least common enemy in the game and the most powerful enemy (save the dragon) in the game to get them.
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