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As I told you guys before I had two semesters of coding this past year. I learned Visual Basic, C++, and C# and Java is very close to those. I have no doubt I could easily pick up the syntax of it. And I've been looking into how to mod for Minecraft. It doesn't seem challenging to make a mod that adds mobs/blocks/items. If I dwelled into it long enough I may be able to learn how to do great things such as Frost has attempted and re-invent the game engine. If I could get someone to try it with me, we could start simple like adding ores and simple tools/weapons. Is anyone up for it? I know everyone talked about learning Java a long time ago, but it showed no fruits of our labor. I know for sure I can code a complex 2D puzzle game in C#.

Vinczhechov wrote:

You just chose a meme from my favorite show. I'm committed

I've been learning java for a year now, so if you want to have a go at it, count me in

craftqq wrote:I've been learning java for a year now, so if you want to have a go at it, count me in

The first basic part is pretty much using like the regular ores and renaming them, changing textures and data values. So initally it`s pretty easy.

You know you could start with it, of course, prolly even get a bunch of stuff done, there are just a few problems that require very complicated and difficult code.

here is a short list of difficult tasks, in no particular order

1) allowing block-built objects to move independently from the rest of the world at 6 degrees of freedom, and allow players standing inside them to use these objects as reference frames, i.e. if the ship pitches up, the player model has to pitch along

2) get large-scale/crowd-run servers functional with the inter-server travelling mechanic

3) new/improved graphics engine - we need multi-kilometer view distances to run smoothly on at least midspec PCs.

4) power system

5) Squeeze Star Citizen into Space Engineers and port it over to Minecraft

Also a combat system for said flying block-built objects.

Yes, very well understand the challenge I`ll face when I get so far in. I won`t be able to do it alone. Nor do I plan to, I`m currently learning more coding commands/calls.

TinkerPox wrote:

craftqq wrote:I've been learning java for a year now, so if you want to have a go at it, count me in

The first basic part is pretty much using like the regular ores and renaming them, changing textures and data values. So initally it`s pretty easy.

http://www.minecraftforge.net/wiki/Basic_Modding
pretty much that. (+items / tools)

Ivan2006 wrote:You know you could start with it, of course, prolly even get a bunch of stuff done, there are just a few problems that require very complicated and difficult code.

here is a short list of difficult tasks, in no particular order

1) allowing block-built objects to move independently from the rest of the world at 6 degrees of freedom, and allow players standing inside them to use these objects as reference frames, i.e. if the ship pitches up, the player model has to pitch along
Factorization has a chunk-rotation system from which we could...draw inspiration
2) get large-scale/crowd-run servers functional with the inter-server travelling mechanic
The servers need to know each other, then its just sending data over; the rest is a piece of cake
3) new/improved graphics engine - we need multi-kilometer view distances to run smoothly on at least midspec PCs.
Should be no problem in space since the amount of blocks to render is quite low - but anything else and we need to seriously change how both the graphics and physic engine work (gtx980 +4770K; still getting under 60 fps and framedrops) Minecraft is THE game that performes worst on my computer
4) power system
plenty (Opensource) power systems already out there; I'm sure we could use (and change) an existing one
5) Squeeze Star Citizen into Space Engineers and port it over to Minecraft
That'll happen automatically

Most of the work'll be putting stuff together and creating content (besides multi-km render); Modding has seriously changed in the last few years.

...unless you want to do stuff without forge. Then you're looking forward to A LOT of work and making everything yourself (even more if you don't want to use MCP, but I doubt we're going to decompile / deobfuscate stuff on our own)

Well I could quite easily get the rights to use TMT off Flan... Which would make modelling very easy, we'd be able to use conventional models, fancy tesselator shapes and import .obj files all with one package.

craftqq wrote:

TinkerPox wrote:

craftqq wrote:I've been learning java for a year now, so if you want to have a go at it, count me in

The first basic part is pretty much using like the regular ores and renaming them, changing textures and data values. So initally it`s pretty easy.

http://www.minecraftforge.net/wiki/Basic_Modding
pretty much that. (+items / tools)

Ivan2006 wrote:You know you could start with it, of course, prolly even get a bunch of stuff done, there are just a few problems that require very complicated and difficult code.

here is a short list of difficult tasks, in no particular order

1) allowing block-built objects to move independently from the rest of the world at 6 degrees of freedom, and allow players standing inside them to use these objects as reference frames, i.e. if the ship pitches up, the player model has to pitch along
Factorization has a chunk-rotation system from which we could...draw inspiration
2) get large-scale/crowd-run servers functional with the inter-server travelling mechanic
The servers need to know each other, then its just sending data over; the rest is a piece of cake
3) new/improved graphics engine - we need multi-kilometer view distances to run smoothly on at least midspec PCs.
Should be no problem in space since the amount of blocks to render is quite low - but anything else and we need to seriously change how both the graphics and physic engine work (gtx980 +4770K; still getting under 60 fps and framedrops) Minecraft is THE game that performes worst on my computer
4) power system
plenty (Opensource) power systems already out there; I'm sure we could use (and change) an existing one
5) Squeeze Star Citizen into Space Engineers and port it over to Minecraft
That'll happen automatically

Most of the work'll be putting stuff together and creating content (besides multi-km render); Modding has seriously changed in the last few years.

...unless you want to do stuff without forge. Then you're looking forward to A LOT of work and making everything yourself (even more if you don't want to use MCP, but I doubt we're going to decompile / deobfuscate stuff on our own)

That`s where I read how to use MC files to make new stuff. I read that the othe day.

Ivan2006 wrote: 3) new/improved graphics engine - we need multi-kilometer view distances to run smoothly on at least midspec PCs.

In other words, remake Minecraft in something other than Java.
Anything other than Java.
Srsly Java sucks for stuff like Minecraft.

Y'all wanna know why Minecraft runs like shit on every single computer ever? Because it uses Java the processor has to be both processor and graphics card.

Archduke Daynel, PhD wrote:

Ivan2006 wrote: 3) new/improved graphics engine - we need multi-kilometer view distances to run smoothly on at least midspec PCs.

In other words, remake Minecraft in something other than Java.
Anything other than Java.
Srsly Java sucks for stuff like Minecraft.

Y'all wanna know why Minecraft runs like shit on every single computer ever? Because it uses Java the processor has to be both processor and graphics card.

http://www.lwjgl.org/
https://www.opengl.org/
That's not the problem. Minecraft just renders (almost) every. single. block. all. the. time. (and 16*16*16 = 4096 blocks pro chunk (although many blocks are just air);6 sides pro block: 24576 sides pro chunk; minimum render distance: 2 chunks (radius): 2*2*2 = 8 ==> at least 196608 sides to render. this does get less with advanced opengl (right in the options panel), but it's still much too much at decent settings (this is exactly what frostbyte wanted to do with occlusion culling: don't render what the user can't see. massive performance increase, but neither of us has access to this unless frostbyte comes along again.)

Also, just fyi: java doesn't really do anything on it's own. That's what all the native methods do: they are implemented in another language and get called from java (and yes, you can write your own native methods). This is the reason java (the language) is cross-platform but you need a different runtime for each OS.

Aren't chunks 16x16 and are the height of the world?

World chunks are, render chunks are 16x16x16.


However there is this thing...
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/ma ... height-cap

Basically born from cubic chunks.