Pre Beta Release Checklist

[lucasdamianjohnson]

This is just a general list of everything that I want to finish before I release beta .1 of the voxel engine.

• [x] Improve the render thread code. Make it more coherent and manageable.
  • [x] Change the way animated textures are handled in the render thread.
  • [x] Make the "chunk meshes" into either one object or classes.
  • [x] Make the "chunk materials" into either one object or classes.
  • [x] Make the render options such as sun level and base level easier to access and update.
  • [x] Create a shader builder so that materials can be easily created and updated for both WebGL 2 and WebGPU.
• [x] Create a system for saving chunk/region data and loading it in. (already kinda exists with the DataLoader thread but was broken in Alpha 1.2.2)
• [x] Implement true multi-thread world generation. (Was tested out but was also broken in a previous update)
• [x] Improve the processor and meshing part of the engine.
  • [x] Add a way to add voxel colors. (might just provide a way to add a custom function to do so)
  • [x] Add support for the 45-degree angled texture flips and fix the textures when the face is flipped.
• [x] Create a way to run tasks for different dimensions and for different sections of the world. So, something 1 million meters away does not block anything.
• [x] Improve the physics system and implement the collider id into the voxel data that is shared with threads.
• [ ] Add a fully working water/magma flow and removal algorithm.
• [x] Update the RichWorld API to be like the rest of the new APIs.
• [x] Add voxel tags such as "fluid-breakable" and "unbreakable". These can be either one-bit true/false flags or several bits big for numbers.
• [x] Fully implement chunk/column states and have them update after actions such as world sun propagation.
• [x] Implement a system to analyze a world column for any light updates, magma light updates, and fluid/magma flows and have it run them.
• [x] Create a system to "infinitely" generate a world. This may be just a plug-in or a tool. Could run on its own thread. Not sure yet.
• [x] Make it so that chunks store their voxel data in 4 segments. Each is 2 bytes per entry.
  • Segment 1 is just the voxel id.
  • Segment 2 is the light data.
  • Segment 3 is the state data.
  • Segment 4 is the secondary voxel id.
  • This maybe could be used in the future to reduce the memory footprint of chunks that do not need state data and or secondary voxel data.
• [x] Add another property to chunk data to indicate which dimension the chunk belongs to.
• [x] Implement column data that will be kind of like chunk data but could be used to store data about biomes. I may leave this up to the user of the engine but we will see.

[lucasdamianjohnson]

The engine has changed drastically since I made this issue I am closing it.

[lucasdamianjohnson]

Closed.