by Higor » Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:47 am
This is a very alpha prototype of the optimized blocks.

What you need to do:
- Specify if it's touching a solid wall from a certain direction (so it treats that direction as VisBlocking)
- Insert a CacusBlockController actor for network replication support (and avoid log warning spam, i did this on purpose)
- Not overlap them!!!

What the block does:
- Neighbour detection
- Automatic VisBlocking capability detection on blocks (translucent and modulated blocks are not VisBlocking)
- Automatic self-hiding based on neighbour state
- Spawn a fragmentation spawner

What the controller does (you may insert more than one):
- Hold 4096 block references
- Block detection via radius and/or zone
- Replicates block status in a compressed fashion (INT[128] array) using bitwise operators to encode/decode
- Hides/unhides blocks on clients based on status

What the fragmentation spawner does:
- Generate/replicate a random seed
- Spawn all the fragments (8) using the same semi-random directions/velocities on both client/server
- Doesn't spawn fragments on dedicated server boxes, only clients
Reference: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4935&p=52332

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What's to be added

- Back cube render rejection, using the controller to grab the player camera's location and rotation.
- Sound
- Half block model support
- Maybe something else :)