Updated package versions; lerp syntax change in three.js; using local painterly-textures

chrisekelley commented 11 years ago

I've been working on a bootstrap of this and voxel-client; here are some changes to voxel-server that should make it work with voxel-client. I've been working on my fork at https://github.com/chrisekelley/voxel-hello-client . Next i'll update my fork of voxel-client to the one you released last night and (hopefully) send a useful pull request.

max-mapper commented 11 years ago

this is awesome, thanks so much!

max-mapper commented 11 years ago

also apologies that server/client haven't been well maintained lately -- they've been on my todo list but i'm finally back to working on them as of yesterday. maybe we should chat about features?

chrisekelley commented 11 years ago

Awesome Max - this is a really cool project! Right now my plan is to merge my voxel-client and voxel-hello-world code with your latest push - should have it all sorted mañana and hopefully my code will be useful. My initial idea was to make it easy to simply drop in the require for voxel-client and make a single-user app like voxel-hello-world talk to the server. But reality didn't work out quite so easily ;-) But let's get back to features: I think it's pretty great already! Some ideas:

I'd like to add a way to choose my avatar when I first get started.
I'd like to be able to chat with other players (which I think you've already implemented).
I'd like to be able to leave some text of pix on an object
Choosing an object from the toolbar and placing it into the world would be nice.

But more importantly, I'd like this to work on as many platforms as possible. ie. IOS and Android. Spinning an Android app with an embedded Chrome is not going to be terribly difficult, but i am not so sure about getting an IOS version working - maybe Ejecta would do the trick?

max-mapper commented 11 years ago

sweet, i'll wait for your pull req before I make any more changes. today I'm working towards finishing up a minecraft level loader.

choosing an avatar sounds like a great feature. even if it was just a hardcoded selection of avatars that is bundled with the app for now (as opposed to building a whole identity system like gravatar)
the chat UX/UI right now is a bit hacky cause I was trying to make it work within the pointer lock... so if you hit W inside the chat box your character will still move forward. I think it can be done better it just needs some polish
I also like the text/pictures on blocks idea. both of those could be individual modules, e.g. voxel-graffiti or voxel-plaster or voxel-sharpee something along those lines
placing objects: this is an important feature... I started doing some block selection stuff with voxel-highlight and voxel-select (see here http://gifblocks.com/) but I havent implemented a select/deselect for items yet. I'd like to be able to drag and drop 3D objects around inside the game world. I was thinking maybe you could pick up an item and then set it down. combined with voxel-fly I don't think that would be too shabby
cross platform: if you do npm search voxel you'll find 3 or 4 touch control modules... but none of them are beyond the proof of concept level. I've got the hello world running so far on 3 mobile devices: Android 4.x, newest Blackberry mobile browser, FirefoxOS and as for iOS I started trying to get it working with ejecta but haven't had time to figure out if it's possible or not: https://github.com/maxogden/voxel-engine/tree/iphone

other crazy feature ideas;

p2p and/or CORS support for server/client to make hosting servers and joining games from arbitrary web pages really easy
a storage + identity server so you can host a 'homestead' with permissions, maybe built on top of github
export a critter from this other app I made http://voxelbuilder.com/ and place it into the world via PNG drag/drop or file > upload
minigame editor where you place critters and a goal and have players try to get to the goal without getting eaten by the critters
multiplayer 3D editing/CAD app where you can import vector files (like .stl), voxelize them and then hack them up with friends, then export them as a smoothed voxel isosurface (e.g. http://0fps.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/smooth-voxel-terrain-part-2/) for 3D printing

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