Random Chitchat 2012-2016

[bearbin]

That's how it normally goes, but they're both pretty much interchangeable if you want.

[tigerw]

This just reinforces the point that my jokes are terrible...

[NiLSPACE]

I had an idea on how we could let the server know what the bounding boxes are for a block. We simply create a list of boundingboxes in the block handler. Here is kinda what I mean:
BlockHandler.h:

typedef std::vector<cBoundingBox> BoundingBoxes;

/// Returns a list of bounding boxes. For example a cauldron returns 5 because it has 5 faces that are solid but a full block returns 1
virtual BoundingBoxes & GetBoundingBoxes(Vector3i a_Pos);

BlockHandler.cpp:

cBlockHandler::BoundingBoxes & cBlockHandler::GetBoundingBoxes(Vector3i a_Pos)
{
	cBlockHandler::BoundingBoxes BBS;
	
	if (cBlockInfo::IsSolid(m_BlockType))
	{
		cBoundingBox BB(a_Pos, 1, 1);
		BBS.push_back(BB);
	}

	return BBS;
}

Then when the server needs to know if an entity is in a block it loops through the list and checks if the bounding boxes intersect with the bounding box of an entity. This method would be usefull for for example a cauldron since it's more like a hollow block.


EDIT:

Another idea is to let the blockhandler itself check if an entity is inside.

[sphinxc0re]

Not a bad idea! At least it would make the plugin development a lot easier and also the regular development though I can't think of much of a usage . Could you explain that a little more?

[NiLSPACE]

Well for example thanks to this we could throw items directly agains fences instead of stopping the item in front it

[sphinxc0re]

Oh yes! And we also would be able to punch them through

[NiLSPACE]

I don't think that would work if you have a different texture pack though

[sphinxc0re]

I don't think that would work if you have a different texture pack though

No, that was not what I meant. Isn't it possible to throw items over a fence?

[xoft]

You need to think this one through properly, though - you don't want to create a vector of bounding boxes for each and every block in the chunk - there's 64Ki blocks per chunk!

[sphinxc0re]

Yes, I think this might be a bigger project and really needs proper planning.

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