Random Chitchat 2012-2016

[xoft]

We've come back from a vacation in the Czech Paradise area, and, boy, I wish I could make this into a MC generator

[NiLSPACE]

:O I've been there on my school trip (Look the same rock):

[xoft]

Yup. It's a beautiful place.

[tigerw]

You could always add a tectonic simulator module to the terrain generator.

[xoft]

Not really, it would mess up the trees.

[tigerw]

Tree it up after tectonics? Anyway, it's a joke.

[xoft]

It's not about *after* or *before*, it's about neighbors. Trees need their chunk neighbors in order to check if they fit; but they only ask for terrain composition, they do not (and cannot) ask for terrain after structure generators - because that would include the trees in that chunk, too.
That's also the reason why you won't find a tree growing in a ravine or a cave that has broken surface.

[tigerw]

Okay, but why not do the tectonics in the terrain generator, so they aren't a structure?

[xoft]

Because then they'd be tied to a specific terrain composition generator, so you couldn't turn them on or off separately, or use them with another terrain composition generator.

[NiLSPACE]

I tried making the skeleton shoot arrows but It doesn't work. It does compile but you can't see an arrow flying from the skeleton. Any help?:

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void cSkeleton::Attack(float a_Dt) {     m_AttackInterval += a_Dt * m_AttackRate;     if ((m_Target != NULL) && (m_AttackInterval > 3.0))     {         Vector3d Speed = GetLookVector() * 30;         cArrowEntity * Arrow = new cArrowEntity(this, GetPosX(), GetPosY(), GetPosZ(), Speed);         if (Arrow == NULL)         {             return;         }         if (!Arrow->Initialize(m_World))         {             delete Arrow;             return;         }         m_World->BroadcastSpawnEntity(*Arrow);     } }

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I found out that the function doesn't get called. Any idea why? I did add it in skeleton.h using

1	virtual void Attack(float a_Dt) override;