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Archive for June 18th, 2011

Long range terrain approximation test

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Here’s something for you to try out:
minetest-0.2.20110618_0_dev-win32.zip
Source: 42aae17d1a1f.tar.gz 42aae17d1a1f.zip

EDIT: The source package was missing the texture for the trees drawn in the distance. Updated the link to point to a working one.

You should end up with something like this:

It draws a rough estimate of the terrain quite far away on client-side, based on the map seed and the noise functions used by the actual generator.

Have fun! 8)

More info in the next post.