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scornful-crimson

Something about how this guy is making his own sandbox game from scratch. And this game gets a bit s

Something about how this guy is making his own sandbox game from scratch. And this game gets a bit slow with a lot of pixels on screen so I thought the video would really help out this games performance

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scornful-crimson

Sscornful-crimson Something about how this guy is making his own sandbox game from scratch. And th...

dead-brown

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dead-brown•4/1/23, 1:38 AM

Right now pixels are all split up into one big array

dead-brown

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dead-brown•4/1/23, 1:38 AM

You'd need to iterate it to know which pixels are in what chunks

dead-brown

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dead-brown•4/1/23, 1:39 AM

But after you've iterated it you've lost the performance benifits of chunks

scornful-crimson

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scornful-crimsonOP•4/1/23, 1:39 AM

Oh

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scornful-crimsonOP•4/1/23, 1:49 AM

Oh wait I got two ideas. Kelp (grows like bamboo but underwater and grows leaf pixels on its right and left sides of its stem which fish can eat like algae.) and sharks (a gray pixel that eats fish (and maybe anything in the water) and will die if it has not eaten in a bit and will make another shark pixel after eating enough.)

broad-salmon

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broad-salmon•4/1/23, 1:51 AM

there arent fish

broad-salmon

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broad-salmon•4/1/23, 1:51 AM

nvm am dum

scornful-crimson

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scornful-crimsonOP•4/1/23, 1:52 AM

scornful-crimson

Sscornful-crimson Oh wait I got two ideas. Kelp (grows like bamboo but underwater and grows leaf p...

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scornful-crimsonOP•4/1/23, 1:54 AM

Anyways so opinions?

Þe Master Of Stuff ✟

ÞÞe Master Of Stuff ✟Oh wait I got two ideas. Kelp (grows like bamboo but underwater and grows leaf p...

ryan 🪱

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:01 AM

ive been wanting to add kelp for a while actually but never got to it

ryan 🪱

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:01 AM

but a shark i havent done because its not really fitting for 1 pixel

precious-lavender

Pprecious-lavender but a shark i havent done because its not really fitting for 1 pixel

dead-brown

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dead-brown•4/1/23, 2:01 AM

Then split it up like humans

ryan 🪱

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:02 AM

quite complex

ryan 🪱

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:02 AM

if i make a system for multi-pixel bodies itll be easier

sacred-rose

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sacred-rose•4/1/23, 2:03 AM

kelp is nice

sacred-rose

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sacred-rose•4/1/23, 2:03 AM

shark too

precious-lavender

Pprecious-lavender quite complex

dead-brown

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dead-brown•4/1/23, 2:03 AM

Just keep track of the center pixel and move the surrounding pixels accordingly

precious-lavender

Pprecious-lavender if i make a system for multi-pixel bodies itll be easier

sacred-rose

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sacred-rose•4/1/23, 2:03 AM

yes!

sacred-rose

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sacred-rose•4/1/23, 2:03 AM

then you can make real snakes

dead-brown

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dead-brown•4/1/23, 2:03 AM

It's not THAT complex

MollTheCoder

MMollTheCoder Just keep track of the center pixel and move the surrounding pixels accordingly

ryan 🪱

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:03 AM

it is not that simple..

dead-brown

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dead-brown•4/1/23, 2:03 AM

What complications are there?

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:03 AM

u must check for collision too, and then theres density stuff

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:04 AM

a single system for things like that could add a lot of possibilities

sacred-rose

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sacred-rose•4/1/23, 2:05 AM

yess

precious-lavender

Pprecious-lavender u must check for collision too, and then theres density stuff

dead-brown

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dead-brown•4/1/23, 2:05 AM

Collision isn't that hard, but density definitely complicates things

precious-lavender

Pprecious-lavender but a shark i havent done because its not really fitting for 1 pixel

scornful-crimson

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scornful-crimsonOP•4/1/23, 2:06 AM

Maybe do it like two pixels but sideways. Like how humans are two pixels

MollTheCoder

MMollTheCoder Collision isn't that hard, but density definitely complicates things

ryan 🪱

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:06 AM

i know its not that hard, but for just the shark its too much

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:07 AM

again, if i do it once and make it a versatile system it would be easier

dead-brown

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dead-brown•4/1/23, 2:07 AM

Yeah

scornful-crimson

Sscornful-crimson Maybe do it like two pixels but sideways. Like how humans are two pixels

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scornful-crimsonOP•4/1/23, 2:07 AM

Oh someone Alr said that lol sorry

dead-brown

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dead-brown•4/1/23, 2:08 AM

I was actually working on a library for creatures

dead-brown

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dead-brown•4/1/23, 2:08 AM

But I never got around to finishing it

scornful-crimson

Sscornful-crimson Oh someone Alr said that lol sorry

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scornful-crimsonOP•4/1/23, 2:08 AM

Well maybe like if you want, add sharks as one pixel rn and once your able to you can upgrade them and make them into two pixels

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faint-white•4/1/23, 2:33 AM

@ryan

can you add ability for world generation to extend all the way to the top?

PlanetN9ne

PPlanetN9ne @ryan 🪱 can you add ability for world generation to extend all the way to the t...

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:33 AM

modded world gens?

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faint-white•4/1/23, 2:33 AM

yeah

PlanetN9ne

PPlanetN9ne yeah

ryan 🪱

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:34 AM

i think try the

baseHeight: 1,

baseHeight: 1,

attribute

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:35 AM

its 0 to 1

faint-white

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faint-white•4/1/23, 2:35 AM

it doesn't work

ryan 🪱

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:35 AM

D:

ryan 🪱

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:35 AM

what happened

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faint-white•4/1/23, 2:36 AM

it just places stuff at the top

ryan 🪱

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:36 AM

oh..

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faint-white•4/1/23, 2:36 AM

and setting it to 1 makes it so that it's the absolute very top

faint-white

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faint-white•4/1/23, 2:36 AM

setting negative numbers for the material heights doesn't work either

ryan 🪱

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:37 AM

the worldgen is the worst thing ive ever made

ryan 🪱

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ryan 🪱•4/1/23, 2:37 AM

so idk tbh

faint-white

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faint-white•4/1/23, 2:38 AM

idk, i'm just trying to hack it so that it just fills entirely with a single material that turns into something else

faint-white

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faint-white•4/1/23, 2:38 AM

but it can't do that