02-15-2012, 07:20 AM
With my recent big commit (251) I forgot to move the VIEWDISTANCE back up after debugging, so right now it is set to 4, which means the server streams an area of 9 x 9 chunks to a client (4 front, 1 current, 4 back times 4 left, 1 center, 4 right - that's where the four comes in). This is really too little (actually it's the minimum 
, so feel free to set it higher, but as FakeTruth already said, clients don't display more than 20 x 20 chunks (render distance Far) so setting VIEWDISTANCE to anything more than 10 is just wasting the bandwidth (and probably memory both server-side and client-side)
, so feel free to set it higher, but as FakeTruth already said, clients don't display more than 20 x 20 chunks (render distance Far) so setting VIEWDISTANCE to anything more than 10 is just wasting the bandwidth (and probably memory both server-side and client-side)