Random Chitchat 2012-2016

[NiLSPACE]

As far as i saw it looked good.

[xoft]

I give up, no matter what I touch, I can't squeeze any more speed out of it by using the new noise generator functions

[ThuGie]

Read this and try again.

We know you can! You know you can, Just try again!

[xoft]

I can squeeze up performance from other areas, but not from the new noise functions. I guess they'll remain there for the new features to use - especially overhangs.

I've just (rev 1410) made the MultiStepMap biome generator 3x faster, but not thanks to the new noise, but rather by hacking: using 2D noise functions instead of 3D noise. And it changes the way biomes are calculated, so old worlds will have a visible boundary between old chunks and new chunks

[ThuGie]

Well that should not be a problem but still 3x faster is quite nice.

Im used to just regenerating world anyway :p.

[xoft]

I'm done with speedups, off to overhangs I go!

First try:

[NiLSPACE]

Woooow that looks great

[xoft]

Actually it's terrible. But see for yourself - I've committed that thing as a DirectOverhangs structure generator in rev 1411

[FakeTruth]

Looks very alien

[bearbin]

It looks quite good