Looks cool so far, with some decorations and some vertical biomes (tree line, snow cap) this would be a pretty decent mountain. Maybe add a setting for the maximum and minimum height of generated mountains (biomes should scale accordingly). I'd love to see realistically high mountains (3000-8000 nodes), not everywhere but in some places this would be pretty cool.
Needs something that worth climbing the mountains, though. Either inside (some ores) or on top (hidden chest with awesome loot?).
I'd love to see realistically high mountains (3000-8000 nodes)
It's not a problem to generate such big mountain, but it's a problem to display it whole. Minetest became VERY slow on huge areas with visible nodes. Even landscapes with mountains with height=500 can not be displayed with normal FPS if you set infinite view range distance
It's not a problem to generate such big mountain, but it's a problem to display it whole. Minetest became VERY slow on huge areas with visible nodes. Even landscapes with mountains with height=500 can not be displayed with normal FPS if you set infinite view range distance
Yes, it's a pity that MT has such heavy performance issues (did some long-term testing some time ago and came to the conclusion that everything larger than roughly 300 nodes causes various issues regardless of other settings). Super high mountains would be cool anyways.
I think this can be fixed, if far-away landscape would be displayed not as nodes, but as smooth polygon approximation.
That would be an astounding accomplishment, if it's truly possible! I'm imagining a fog-like silhouette for distant nodes (no textures, just a solid color with translucency based on distance), I'm sure that would dramatically reduce the rendering overhead, and would permit significantly greater viewing range.
About displaying far away areas, i think at distance, where 16x16 block looks small enough, we can display it as single block (like on the video above). It will decrease displayed cubes in big areas in about 16*16*16=4096 times, and allow to significally increase viewing distance
Had a look at the other videos - wow. That is impressive stuff. Wonder if it will be open source? Looks like he runs Windows, so it might not run natively on Linux either.
Also I think that it would be useful to allow to create mountain after map is generated. So there should be some API for calling mapgen from lua. Is it possible now?
