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Majiir / RealtimeRender

Map rendering plugin for Bukkit that updates as the world changes.
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Simple material texturing #14

Closed Majiir closed 12 years ago

Majiir commented 12 years ago

Experiment with patterned and randomized textures for some materials, especially sand, grass, stone, water and lava.

Majiir commented 12 years ago

Simple uniform color randomization is ineffective. (In fact, it considerably increases the size of tile images.) Non-uniform distributions or "sparkle" methods may help.

Majiir commented 12 years ago

Water looks terrible with simple "sparkles" applied. If any texturing is to be applied to water, a more sophisticated method (analyzing shorelines, biomes, etc.) will be necessary.

Majiir commented 12 years ago

Uniform pseudorandom selection of pixels from a texture palette seems to work for SAND. It may also be appropriate for materials like WOOL and STONE. GRASS and LEAVES will require either a texture-and-shade algorithm or something that ignores textures entirely, since their base color is derived from a gradient.

Majiir commented 12 years ago

Given that it will be configurable when issue #20 is resolved, I consider simple texturing to be complete.