Hi all,
Not sure if this has been discussed anywhere around. Wherever rock overhangs water there's a "missing" water block when "waving liquids" is switched on, presumably "hidden" beneath the node above it.
Could there be a way to have the water continue underneath the overhang, as it should?
Take care all, in these "interesting" times,
G.
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I don't think it's possible unless we are creating a lot of lagg on the oceans, and that's because we have to render the top face of the water to solve your problem... (im not a big coder so correct me if im wrong).
I only see two solutions:
Don't use waving liquids!
Get a mod that renders the top face of the water if no water is on top of it! This might make some ridicilus lag but i don't really know, because I'm not a big coder :D
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Had a feeling it'd be something like that. Although... don't we already render the top face of water_source nodes? It's just when there's a node on top of it, it would normally be hidden. But because water_waving is a kind of 3/4 node it reveals the missing, eclipsed top face. I'd have thought it would just have to be those top faces that need rendering. Would those few more faces create a LOT of lag?
Maybe just one of those Minetest quirks I'll have to get over. Meanwhile, I've left my favourite deck chair in a cave somewhere, and I'm trying to retrace my steps and find it, so there's plenty of other things to think about.
Grigor wrote:Had a feeling it'd be something like that. Although... don't we already render the top face of water_source nodes? It's just when there's a node on top of it, it would normally be hidden. But because water_waving is a kind of 3/4 node it reveals the missing, eclipsed top face. I'd have thought it would just have to be those top faces that need rendering. Would those few more faces create a LOT of lag?
Maybe just one of those Minetest quirks I'll have to get over. Meanwhile, I've left my favourite deck chair in a cave somewhere, and I'm trying to retrace my steps and find it, so there's plenty of other things to think about.
The easy solution is to force all water sources to render the top face, but then you wouldn't allowed to look at any ocean because your MineTest would instantly freeze... the harder solution is to force the water sources to render the top face if there is a block on top of them (not water), but i think that you have to check all water sources all the time which would also generate lag... so the super easy and working solution is to dont use wawing liqud until someone makes a mod that solves your problem :D
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the harder solution is to force the water sources to render the top face if there is a block on top of them (not water), but i think that you have to check all water sources all the time which would also generate lag... so the super easy and working solution is to dont use wawing liqud until someone makes a mod that solves your problem :D
You can't fix this with a mod.
The node above each node is already checked (afaik) to decide whether or not to render the top face (that's how the engine knows to skip the top face in the OP's situation in the first place). Changing this check to have a different behavior when waving water is enabled won't have that much of a performance impact. (Also, as far as I'm aware, these checks are only performed once when the map chunk is loaded, and again when a node is modified but only for the surrounding nodes.)
