Presumably CEST (France).

I think he was asking since he probably noticed you visited the forum unusually early and he happens to love Minecraft.

Also for touchpad control just the camera would be nice I guess, because when you control movement with it (such as in nDoom), it looks like your calc becomes sentient or something

Moreover, you have to be able to look up and down, which all the raycasting engines that I know don't support.
So I think that I will keep my 3D engine for now (which isn't far from a voxel engine).

There are techniques in raycasting that allow for looking up and down and even changing the pitch/roll too. They are fairly complex but they still have major advantages over traditional 3D rendering. Especially when it comes to speed, and the ability to alter the map realtime, due to the nature of the map data. You can treat the map as a giant rectangular prizm to make things easier.

I really need to find that tutorial that covers all of these things, it might be helpful to you in the future with this project, you can use some of the techniques for other things in the game possibly.

Quote from: Chockosta on September 22, 2012, 05:44:54 am

Moreover, you have to be able to look up and down, which all the raycasting engines that I know don't support.
So I think that I will keep my 3D engine for now (which isn't far from a voxel engine).

There are techniques in raycasting that allow for looking up and down and even changing the pitch/roll too. They are fairly complex but they still have major advantages over traditional 3D rendering. Especially when it comes to speed, and the ability to alter the map realtime, due to the nature of the map data. You can treat the map as a giant rectangular prizm to make things easier.

I really need to find that tutorial that covers all of these things, it might be helpful to you in the future with this project, you can use some of the techniques for other things in the game possibly.

Do they have the same issues as in Duke Nukem 3D though? When you looked up/down in that game, vertical perspective didn't work, so the top of buildings looked taller than the bottom. In fact, when looking up, all that happened was that the camera moved up like if the scene was just a 2D picture.

Also nice chockosta. Any possibility to have the checkerboard work vertically as well, not just horizontally?

On a more general note, I made some progress !
You can now remove blocks (with tab). Adding blocks require a bit more work, but I should come with a new version tomorrow.
I also chose 8 and 2 to move, I added a cursor, and I filled the background in blue.

Is it okay to also add in 4 and 6 to strafe? And I'm not sure, but I think that 5 would be better for backwards movement, since it is more like a keyboard of a computer, and you dont have to reach as far for the button. It's just right underneath (just slide your thumb down )

I NEED DOWNLOAD!

and when you destroy a block do you get it in your inventory?

and trees should be added too

woah woah woah! slow down! progress for such an epic project isn't that fast! Patience, my young padawan.

Very nice!