Expanding & Overviewing the map

[wudles]

OK. Tracked it down. It comes down to our storage format.
There is no modification time set for our chunks, and the overviewer rejects any chunks without an mtime.

[xoft]

That should be fairly easy to fix - whenever storing a chunk, store its modification time ("time(nullptr)") as well.

[wudles]

That should be fairly easy to fix - whenever storing a chunk, store its modification time ("time(nullptr)") as well.

Yup. Need another coder? I don't mind adding to this, but I don't want to step on any toes.

[xoft]

Are you kidding? We always welcome new people willing to donate code. Feel free to submit a PR on GitHub with this change.

[wudles]

Checking out the Anvil storage mechanism over some turkey soup today.

[wudles]

Well, I have the mtime stored now, but it looks like like the ChunkWorx plugin doesn't quite generate everything.

Areas I have acutally been in show as lit up, areas generated by ChunkWorx are dark.

http://minecraft.planetx.com/

[xoft]

Right, ChunkWorx doesn't light the chunks, it only generates the terrain. We need to do some work on this. The plugin is ripe for a rewrite anyway.

[xoft]

Plan of action:
- Implement a cWorld::PrepareChunk() method that either loads the chunk from disk or generates it, as needed, and lights it.
- (Use that function in cSpawnPrepare for cWorld - https://github.com/mc-server/MCServer/issues/1615 )
- Export the function to Lua
- Change the ChunkWorx plugin to use the function instead of cWorld:TouchChunk()
- Change the ChunkWorx plugin to use a better queueing and smarter chunk ordering.

[wudles]

I'll submit the first needed changes to WSSAnvil.cpp/h today or tomorrow. (It's barely 2 dozen lines of code.)

As to lua, this is my first experience. I'm a VLSI and hardware drivers guy -- mainly for crypto. I'll have a look at cWorld and what you are doing there this weekend.

[wudles]

Are you kidding? We always welcome new people willing to donate code. Feel free to submit a PR on GitHub with this change.

The create PR button is disabled for me.

Here are the two files.