Sep '24 (edited) • JOURNEY
Devlog#2
Hi. Just wanted to share a quick update on my project.
I finally got my chunk system up and running. It took way longer than expected (some irl stuff got in the way), but it’s finally done. There are still a few minor tweaks left (like: crossing the world origin (0, 0) makes chunks load weird, integrating with older systems, and optimizing chunk-based rendering) but nothing too complicated.
The world is generated based on a png image, which itself is generated procedurally with perlin magic and stuff. World is 512x512 chunks and the image is 512x512 pixels so each pixel is mapped to a chunk and the chunk is generated based on the pixel value. I hope all of this still counts as the game world being procedurally generated.
I did some calculations and realized my game world is a bit bigger than I initially thought:
Chunk count: 512 * 512 chunks = 262 144 chunks
Chunk size: 512 * 512 pixels
Total pixels in world: chunk size * chunk count = 68 719 476 736 pixels
So, its probably best not to load everything into memory at once.
Here is a video, and please ignore the overlapping entities, repetitive ground textures, NO easings for biome changes, and all that other junk:
Also the ”smiley face” in the video isn't just a bunch of ground textures. The different squares are the chunks themselves and they all have their own entities, rules for generating entities and other useful stuff.
Edit: forgot to show loading and unloading the chunks in the video. I will post a bigger update later with that
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