I thought I'd release some information on what we're currently working on:
What we're trying to do is make an endless world with biomes. To do this we need to save all the parts of the world into little files called chunks, as you can see here:
As you can see we have a load of files there with their X and Ys in the filenames.
Yesterday I posted some progress, today we've made even more progress on this sytem by doing the following:
- Only generating chunks that are in the player's field of view.
- Putting the chunks (and therefore the world) on a grid.
You can see those here:
In the screenshot, there are no 16x16 water chunks that go outside my field of view. The ones that are beyond my field of view will generate when I can see them.
Anyway I know that that many of you will not give a flying damn but I just wanted to show some progress because when this is done, I promise you that Crawle will look amazing.
It sounds like it will be good. when will it be released?
This patch will probably be out next month.