These days, almost all the time I am working on the new feature.
It is getting nicer every day. And remember how excited I was about it a week or two ago? It’s better now :-) And still not finished. I can’t even start to fathom what you will make with it.
I even told you I will be able to marry it with crafting and electricity. It is now tied with crafting, but not yet with electricity.
Something I accidentally discovered when playing with it today is that you can make torches that switch off and on. A nice feature on its own, but just a minor, minor side effect that I did not even realize existed :-)
It’s taking loads of time because some of the implementation details are very complex. I even had to make my own garbage collection system.
Anyway, huge smile, but no reveal yet.
Ok, just one cute thing to get you thinking:
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Hmm…still thinking sculpting.
Me too
+1
Yeah definetley sculpting…
Probably similar to Magicavoxel. Very excited.
yup
So, something like in-world Legos? Excite!
AWESOME
Little bloks?
Please make a miner cart(≧∇≦)
Kaalus explained a while back ago he didn’t want to ever add mine carts. Just a heads up.
What!?
What!
He mentioned it being a feature too close to minecraft than comfort. I’m not quoting him though…
No he didn’t. He did say it was on his todo list though. :)
Wow, what a breaking news, now I feel delighted again.
Yeah. He never said that he wouldn’t do it, just that he would put its priority down on his to-do list.
Are you sure? I’m almost certain he denied ever adding it a while back ago. I would post a link, but like I said it happend a while back ago I have no idea where it’s at now.
I’m fairly certain he said in one of his posts that he is considering adding minecarts etc But it is too complicated. I think that’s how it went down. I’m pretty certain :P he never said he wouldn’t for definite.
Do you remember the name of he post?
I seem to remember Mrshot’s side of the story. But i will search it!
Thanks a lot Colby. I’m way too lazy to do.it myself :D
I almost was! :-P
Yeah, it’s one this post: https://kaalus.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/shape-the-land/
Hey mrshots, I see you on the Caustic forums a lot :D
I see some SC users there as well :D who are you there? Glad to see someone else from there :)
i think scuplting, as you can see the stem and the petals look like they were part of green/purple planks…just a theory
But hey! It’s just a theory… A game theory! Thanks for watching!
(Sorry, I just had to)
i was gonna say that at the end of my post but i might get killed…
Spontaneous Generator?
Yay!!!!!!!! He finally posted!!!
Please tell me you got this pic….
It took so long to do and I finally finished it
It will be very disappointing if you don’t give me your thoughts on it
So what do you think kaalus?
One more thing
Do you like being called special k?
Special k is a drug so maybe not. You should make your art for your own happiness! He replied to you once and that’s more than most be can say (myself included). Be content with that and the rest of us commenting on it. Otherwise you’re just torturing yourself.
ps: the blue bits at the bottom are my favorite part.
O and thanks :-)
See…
It is hard to know if you impressed the person you look up to if you don’t get any feedback from him….
I look up to him and the artwork I created makes me happy but to be honest with you it was all inspired by him…
It is very important to me and my self esteem to get recognition from the person I am trying to impress otherwise it makes me fell like a bunch of work I did was useless…
This I believe is by far the best Survivalcraft artwork I have ever done, all in an effort to read his comment on it or even better to be mentioned in a post for it….
Please kaalus if you are out there just let me know if you like it.. O:-)
Well, you cannot always get attention from the one you want it from most. It’s something you’ll learn when you are older. Take the compliments that you get and try not to think about the ones you don’t get; life’s easier that way.
I already know this and I grately appreciate the complements I am getting
But it is not the complements I am not getting that are getting to me but the very idea that I get no sign of life when I fell I need it most….
I do believe that getting no sign of life is helpful as it just pushes me to do better; however, there is an extent to which this becomes harmful and makes me just want to stop for a while until I can muster enough strength to keep going…
It is something that I feel not many understand….
Unless you are an artist as dedicated as I you won’t fully understand why recognition from a specific individual is all that can make me continue to work hard at what I do…
I’m an artist, and I can tell you from experience that if you look for recognition from outside yourself, you will always be disappointed. Even when someone responds positively to your art, you’ll feel validated but it soon fades and then you’ll feel the need for even more validation. Artists are their own worst critics! I’ve built worlds in Survivalcraft for forum community builds that I deleted over and over, they were never good enough – just like many drawings, paintings and even professional graphic designs I’ve done. But when I finally do present my work, *I* feel really good about what I’ve done, so I don’t need validation from anyone else. It is wonderful to hear good things, but just keep up your work and understand that you will always be your own worst and best critic. Creating something is what really matters. Hope this eases your mind. :)
Well said, you and SC Eminem. We get ya Justin. Nice pic BTW.
Yay. :-)
I must say, this is going to be quite AWESOME!
Hey, I remember you. I’ve been here since 1.19, but then stopped commenting and looking at the comments like half a year to a year ago. I would have thought that you had stopped, too.
Let’s see… He carved green wooden plank, purple wooden plank, white wooden plank, granite, and some orange colored block. So you can combine blocks in you’re carving to make….
Pictures!!! Of course that’s only one of the many things you can do
Pictures makes sense, seems like quite. Lot of polygons and texture data to cram into 1 or 2 blocks.
Something tells me its not just pictures though.
That chair weren’t no picture…
I’m aware of this. Lol “Pictures!!! Of course that’s only one of the many things you can do.” I was saying pictures were one things you can do I know there are many more such as, cabinets, beds, shelves, vases, TVs, radios, chairs, sideways slabs, proper roofs, copped logs, etc.
Oops Em yes you did say that :) I do hope its both, our walls are so bare.
Unless I’m mistaken, there shouldn’t be any polygons in a painting, because it doesn’t move at all.
At first I was sure it was sculpting, but this picture convinced me otherwise…
I think he’s making it so there is nothing round. That will make it more like Minecraft ( Which I want )!
Why are the edges jagged?
Because a picture is made up of pixels. Since it was take in low quality the pixels are dilated.
Or, it was zoomed in on, suggests they are “mini blocks” using regular size textures.
Crayder is right, we are seeing pixellation. I meant its due to min blocks rather than low resolution.
@Aesop, no that’s not what this is. Go look at the chair, it uses the entire sprite, no stretched or skimmed at all.
Customizable blocks?
Very excited but that’s strange, I can’t even guess what it is and why is it tied with crafting and electricity? If anyone knows tell! Yes I think you can costumize blocks, edit very detailed stuff and what else too? ok now I’m not that excited I’ll say I was 94% after telling about this feature, now I’m 43%..
Thank you kaalus
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Survivalcraft wrote:
> Kaalus posted: “These days, almost all the time I am working on the new > feature. It is getting nicer every day. And remember how excited I was > about it a week or two ago? It’s better now :-) And still not finished. I > can’t even start to fathom what you will make with it” >
Maybe when he said “you can make torches that switch off and on. A nice feature on its own” so maybe every block or item can be edited in the game very detailedly cause he some have their own feature you can do stuff with.
I can’t imagine how sculpting would work especially on phones and tablets, it probably wouldn’t be difficult on pc that’s what I play it on.
@S.J Friday
I beleive you’ve nailed it.
Yeah thanks!
I bet you can create your own blocks/objects like sculpting like some people have mentioned, that explains all the creative talk we’ve been reading.
Amo este juego, no pasa ni un día en el que no siga este post para ver que será lo nuevo que el señor Kaalus ah creado para nosotros y para los que están en YouTube, o mejor dicho los youtubers que hacen gameplays de este juego que nos hacen que nos maravillemos aun mas por este juego como lo es crxsplay (youtuber).
Maybe you will be able create your own textures in game for blocks, maybe the chair and flower are additional add-ons that he figured would keep us guessing lol
Gracias Kaalus, thank you Kaalus, I am very happy.
So much work…
It is not sculpting. It is basically shrinking blocks. You go into a building mode where you build something and when you click done, it shrinks down to an item which floats as a block which you can then pick up and use. It is almost like micro blocks.
It ties in with crafting, meaning you will be able to use it in survival. There will be a recipe for an item that will help you create these items.
I did not expect that you’ll be able to use different colours inside an item.
I count about 12-13 blocks high. I suspect that the array size of an item will be 16x16x16. That means one block will concists of 3072 micro blocks. I’m just wondering what impact this will have on performance if you have a lot of items in a world. There will probably be a rendering distance for micro blocks as well. This feature will however revolutionise SC.
Now just think what it will do if you build electrics and then shrink down circuits. It sounds a bit too tricky.
It means that if he doesn’t use similar hacks to the memory banks you will need 4096 bits of data. Whatever happens, that will mean micro/sculpted/whatever blocks will each take up half a kilobyte of space in your world without some very good compression. This is why I’m skeptical.
Yes, it will have a huge impact on a world’s size, unless he limited the amount of user blocks you can make. Maybe this is the clue. This is not just micro building, it is creating custom blocks, but a limited amount. That would solve many problems, especially size. I hope there will be enough custom blocks.
I would think that, if you (Johnny) are correct with 16x16x16, that it would need 32 bits per microblock, times 4096 microblocks. Meaning 131,072 bits, or 16,384 bytes. I too would assume that the world file itself only holds a reference to another part of the file, or a separate file completely. However, why would this need all 32? “I have plans for a new grand feature that will need every single one of these new bits.” That would leave room for billions of references, or more. Still, custom blocks certainly makes the most sense of the clues.
Well it’s shaping blocks somehow that’s for sure. But, I hope your “operation” is not the case (before you hate on me listen to my reasoning) that seems like a really sloppy way of doing it. The concept of playing survival and building huge structures just to craft some things seems extremely annoying. I still have no clue how it would work though.
Question. Why do you think that its “shrinking blocks” ?
How else could you build such detailed items? Theres no way someone on there phone could place blocks correctly that are that small. Having them shrink down seems the only logical way to go about doing this.
Brythok, the evidence from past pictures debunks the shrinking structures idea
And how does shrinking blocks translate to turning torches on and off?
@ ik123 I’m not sure. You tell me. These are all just theories.
How do you know?
Just follow the clue upto now. The thing many people thought to be a twig, looked like it was not http touching the ground in the same way as if it was floating and turning like a dropped item.
Behind the chair, was four dots that could have been the chair’s legs, although they seemed a bit closer to each other. The first item also supports this theory,as well as the flower pot, which is an enlarged and cropped photo.
And then one thing more, please give me an alternative explanation that makes sense.
Assumptions get you no where, don’t act smart because you’re acting stupid
Mmm. So you have decided it is good to insult people. We are not trying to be smart, we are just playing the game Kaalus has set up, to figure out what he is making. This is common in this forum. If you don’t like the game, don’t insult the ones playing it. I am just guessing and I might be wrong. I’ve been wrong about the dispenser. What do you do then? You must get over it. It is not about who is the smartest. We all try to figure it out together and actually help each other gain insight. At the end it is not just one guy who have solved the riddle, but all of us together.
Sent just insult, rather give a better option, maybe you can help us solve this.
Can we assume you have spoken to Kaalus about this and know exactly what he’s doing?
What is it with you guys? I am just guessing as the rest. I might be confident about my ideas, yet they are still just ideas. Being confident does not always imply that somebody is arrogant, does it? I could have streched out my explanation by adding words like, “more likely”, or “probably rather” or whatever. I was under the impression people will understand what I’m trying to say. I was typing on my cell phone, so I did not want to type so much and was trying to be economical with my words. I was not dictating a world class essay. I am sorry for frustrating you by this.
Mabey we are getting a new crafting table to craft these things and it will show us a picture of what we made so far in a black void background like in the picture
I think what is most interesting is how I can do stuff with it in electricity as you can make a torch that turns on and off so mabey we combine our custom item with other items to give it its properties so a button and light to make special torch. Just a guess though
However if this is true I’m going to make that cute innocent flower into a deadly explosive killing machine >:)
I may or may not of misinterpreted what kaalus said :p
I agree, I like your thinking
No. Kaalus will let us use the game user interface as our workbench to create a new custom block.
Do you develop the game with Kaalus? No, no you don’t.
Do you like insulting people? Are you angry at the world? I know I might be wrong. So what if I am? We are just trying to figure out what is coming. Why do you do this? Everybody here are like friends. Do you want to spoil this?
Please let us not fight. This forum does not tollerate this at all. If you do want to continue, do so on your own. I am not going to participate in this.
Who said we were fighting, I was just telling the truth.
As I said, you will be insulting on your own. Enjoy your life!
You just said you weren’t going to respond anymore. Also you were the one to start this whole thing anyway, I had replied to two comments, and you replied to me acting like I didn’t know what I was talking about.
I said I would not participate in insulting and for now you have stopped that. How did I attack in a way that you did not know what you were talking about? The first post I got from you, was:
“Assumptions get you no where, don’t act smart because you’re acting stupid”
If that is not insulting, what is? Maybe in some way I have misunderstood this then? On your second post I merely replied “no” to your reply concerning the new crafting table, because I disagreed, not because I thought you were stupid or something. Maybe that was a bit direct and if I offended you, I am sorry but do you think your reply with insults was OK?
That wasn’t an insult, It is a saying.
“Howdy! I’m Flowey!”
I got that game. Was pretty cool. gotta play again and not kill anything.
Another conjecture:
There will be new open slots, much like the user inventory. If you click on an open slot, you get an option to edit it, maybe the edit button, like with a memory block. Then you can begin to construct your item and click done. I just hope that Kaalus gives us enough open slots, otherwise this feature will not be great.
The main reason I think it will use 32 bits, is because Kaalus will need the extra item id’s. Maybe I’m wrong.
If anyone wants to help please let me know
The top one looks like something from a 70’s apocalyptic movie! :-) I likey!
omg Kaalus :D The hpye is real :) I’m so much looking forward to this update
I think he should add uranium or plutonium? To mix it with the kegs, just imagine!
YYYEEEESSSS!!!! +1
Using dispensers to plant seeds !!! (auto-planting or auto seeding whatever you call it lol)
Using dispensers to plant those seeds would be really ease up our farming. We already have dispensers to throw fertilizers and a harvester. But having dispensers to plant those seed would be really really ease our farming and the time it consumes on our everday lives in the cruel mode and challenging. But of course the time it costs you to build these and arrange these so that it would work would really need time in SC and it pays off the hard work and planning in how you build these. I know that some might think that these would take away the survival theme in survivalcraft but we already have more advanced items like in electricity. This would benifit us all in our everyday lives in SC like in farming(i mean benefit us all farmers in sc).
Looking to be a great update…
Hi Kaalus, I found an error. I downloaded a electric world, but it was in 1.23, when the world was upgraded to 1.29, all the delay gates became unable to be edited, even in the worlds that I created. I had to uninstall the game and install again to back to normal, but if I install the “1.23 world again” the problem will return. Thank you so much.
(And what about the goal to go back to civilization, survival man?
https://kaalus.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/ui-art-pass/ )
“(…) even the worlds that I created in 1.29* (…)”
You assumed that the delay gates you added when in v1.23 would be changed to the new adjustable delay gates. That was in error. The adjustable delay gates do not replace the original ones – they are an entirely new device, in addition to the original ones. (I made the same mistake.) You need to go into the world destroy all your old fixed delay gates and replace them with the new adjustable ones. If they’re what you want.
(…and what goal to return to civilization? …and why?)
Kali’s posted a while back ago that he was thinking of adding a ending to Srvivalcraft and guess what that was. Yep, getting back to civilization.
Oh, I got it. But the worlds that I created in 1.29 with delay gates became unable to edit too, but already returned to normal.
And about the civilization, I said to Kaalus that would be a good idea if the game would has a goal (like MC to you go to the end ) and someone showed me this link of a post that Kaalus said about “return to civilization” or something else.
But thank you so much
Well torches that can go off and on… MICRO BLOCKS CONFIRMED 👍🏻 😄
I still don’t know what it is. I am assuming sculpting.
It’s custom blocks. You craft it and then shrink it down. Then you can place many of them.
I think this will be one of the greatest updates that he published so far. Minecraft PE is snow from yesterday. SC>MC.
What do you mean by garbage collection system?
Garbage collection is a programming term to describe the freeing up of memory allocated to something. Most languages have built-in garbage collection, with C and its derivatives being the exceptions from the top of my head.
If the memory is not freed up after use it is called a ‘memory leak’ and will crash the program when it runs out of RAM.
OK… Thanks! :-)
Look at my new profile pic!
I’m shure you can guss what it is though it is a bit fuzzy… :-D
Ok better profile pic!
Better yet I won’t change it…. :-D
I think to call it sculpting or micro blocks is not correct although it is a type of micro blocks. We can rather just call it custom blocks. That is why Kaalus needed 32 bits. He did say that he was thinking of increasing the block id’s to 1024. Every custom block will need a number or id. By doing this, every custom block is rendered in the same way steps, slabs, trap doors, fences, doors, Christmas trees, targets etc are rendered. If micro blocks are used, rendering becomes much slower and will use up much more memory.
I know custom blocks well take up a lot of memory and older devices with only 512M memory or less might struggle to open worlds with many custom blocks. This is why Kaalus has written his own garbage collecting system to free up as much memory as possible.
The big question now is, how many custom slots will Kaalus allow. I hope it is not too little, otherwise this feature becomes useless. I would also like it if it were possible to upload custom sets to the community so everyone can share in the creations. It would also be great to merge sets. This is huge.
Am I in the right track Kaalus? How many custom blocks?
Maybe you can make more than one set of custom blocks. In this way, downloading a set won’t delete existing sets in a world. Another option would be to not connect a set with a world, but in the same way as block textures in a separate file. This would be great to use the same custom blocks in different worlds. You actually already have “custom” blocks. Kaalus was just the creator of those blocks: trap grass, christmas tree (a bit big though), fences etc. Many people have asked for toilets, basins, furniture etc. All now Kaalus now longer need to create every one’s desire, we create or own. Thanks die this! The Christmas tree by the way, does have electrics inside it.
Now we can have smoother slanted roofs, balls, rounded roofs (using many custom blocks). This is almost as good as having vector graphics. Just one thing, these blocks must be rotatable.
I don’t think it’s “micro blocks” Like they exist independently. Look at all these objects so far. They look that way yes. But, I think full size blocks are being used to construct a new model, and then we are able select a region containing these blocks. All are “flattened” into a single custom block as you suggest, which has a higher surface polygon count. And apparently the original employed textures are also flattened into a new texture mapped to that custom block.
So, sculpting with regular blocks using the game as the 3d modeling IDE, to produce higher res custom blocks.
Dude this was my guess first, if you want proof go look at the chair post. I guessed that it was the ability to build the block with real size blocks then store it.
Not that it is a big issue for me, but how could I gather that from what you said:
Sweet! I totally get it now! I think.
But if it’s what I think, it couldn’t be constructed from those 4 dirt patches in the background, the chair is at least 9x9x9 which would account for quite a bit of bits. I don’t see how it’d be done but it looks great.
Crayder
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@Kaalus: Check it out later please… :3
Was there another post?
And btw, I’m not in a competition on this. We all get ideas from each other and then build on it. And your comment here is still valid as I have pointed out. I believe it is custom block but still cannot explain that those four patches are too close too each other. Yet it is the only explanation that makes sense, sort of.
Sorry if it seemed like I was trying to compete, I was just jokin around.
“Was there another post?”
Yeah actually there should’ve been, I can’t find it either…. Perhaps it was deleted because I was right and Kaalus didn’t want people to know what it was yet! That’s unlikely, but there really should’ve been another post…
No problem. I believe ears right, but I still do not have an answer on those patches.
Ummm kaalus…..
Big camera glich…..
What happened?
A flower pot. That makes me so happy : D
Ever gone below bedrock? Well this world will take you below bedrock!!!!!
Here is the link-
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/vchzriyy45jgsxj/Secret%20of%20sc%20%281%29.scworld?dl=1
Kaalus, what do u think about it?
There has been a known trick to getting below bedrock. It’s been posted on the wiki and the forum. Just don’t tell Kaalus, in case he decides to extinguish that ‘bug’. I use it to inspect the cave systems for my underground creative builds. It is useless in other modes, anyway – if you can’t fly, you die.
You don’t need any special world.
He is fully aware of the bug
I think he just doesn’t care because it seems like a lot of work to get rid of such a small bug
I agree its a glitch. But ive actually dug it out. Want to know how? Btw how did u get across that ‘glitch’???
You did a great and fun world. Nice to experiment with the void. Thank you!
The new feature is crafting/designing your own objects I.e. A chair, flower pot, a torch than can turn on or off.
I call it a 3D printer.
This might just revolutionize the whole block-world game genre! Even my MC-loving family members are already feeling jealous. Let’s all hope it works out and he can make it truly happen.
Shoot, just switchable torches are pretty cool. Now I need to think what else that could mean…
I bet that it will be that EVERYTHING is 3d, with some new items and other additions. I have no clue what those will be, but im guessing that this will be part of it :D
Kaalus should make it so you can save an “item” and keep it forever. In survival, simply connect a crafting recipe! And… he could add a new community content type: Custom items! SO COOL
This is just a thought, like always, ignore it if you dislike it.
Yes! I was thinking about that before. Really cool idea and I hope it becomes a feature.
Hopefully he’ll at least have a “redo” button to reshape the last shape over again
Speaking of selecting regions, what if they didn’t have to be a full block sized square? 0.o
What if you selected left-right, bottom-up, and forward-backward, and then backward-forward, right-left, and up again: to create an L shape? Also, if hitboxes were changed and block locomotion was added, interlocking blocks could be cool! (even if they provided a lot of lag)
Hey Kaalus, my armor didn’t protect me against a werewolf that attacked me when I was asleep, what happened? I was wearing a full diamond armor and I was in a 200+ days Cruel world.
If you were killed that easy, I doubt that you lasted anywhere near 200 days.
I backup my world regularly.
That’s amazing. I can’t even survive for a day ;-;
Still, when the werewolf attacked me, I died as if I wasn’t wearing anything.
Nice way to prove yourself!
it is funny, sad, amazing but……welcome to cruel mode.
Send us a screen of your pause menu days.
Nice, I am almost at 250 though
If you backup as like a save file, and when you die you go back, you are cheating. The whole point of the mode is not to die
He didn’t prove himself, he shows that he cheated to get that far
Well, sorry for that.
I came here to say that I got killed with a diamond armor on, not to show how many days I managed to stay alive.
He will need more details to help more than likely.
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Kaalus, Hello! These screenshots are very beautiful and very amazing, although I am not from the US, but I and my forum, a netizen are very fond of you develop the game, we have to play this game for a long time, forum, some people say animals is a bit less, want to increase the number of animals (of course, these proposals have some very strange), he provided advice is this: increase
elephant，hippo，okapi，kudu，yak， takin，tapir， Kiang，alpaca， pig，sheep， goat，babirusa， pronghorn， Nyala， mink，Leopard，puma，Cheetah， Lynx，Panda， skunk，Ocelot，otter，Jackal， Fox，raccoon，civet，walrus， kangaroo，Python，crocodile，rabbit，gorilla，orang，chimpanzee，anteater，pangolin，Koala，rhesus，baboon，mandrill，chicken，goose，Swan.
Is this COMMAND BLOCKS!?
a flower, command blocks? read the post ^^^^^
It has to be command blocks that can form mini sculptures, because its only used in creative…
And when he means to make it work with electricity, that is exactly what he is trying toi say, command blocks activated by elictricity
im not sure what he means be crafting though
Yeah, but why would crafting be an only creative thing? I don’t think it’s a command block.
In addition to what you said.
I guessed command block because how the heck could we trigger a torch’s lights without defying physics, right?
Best bet would be triggering a torch on and off using a command.
And of course we need an interface for the commands. And that is why I thought maybe its command block. Haha. Just guessing tho.
No. It is called “memory banks”.
It’s a custom item generator that can combine features, functionality of items eg a light switch combined with a torch. I can see how it would have a huge impact on memory thus the need for custom garbage collection. This has to be some amazing code.
Flower pots included.
For minecarts, it has to be operated as if you are operating a train and can attach multiple minecarts by it’s built-in hook. By that, the originality will be obtained.
Check this out guys:
http://survivalcraft.lefora.com/topic/19406904/master/1/
Looks good! Whitelisted in Community Content.
I would really love a video to showcase this ;)
But really can’t wait for you to unveil this. It’s nice to have something to look forward to and you deserve a round of applause for your efforts and dedication.
I think we can expect a video when he finishes up.
Right, I am going to categorically lay down why I do not think it can be micro blocks/sculpting.
Firstly, I can not think of anything else that it could be. I have no better ideas. Maybe I am wrong. It just seems so impossible.
Blocks have 18 bits of data that they can use for variants of themselves. 2^18 = 262144 variants. Each extra bit means twice as many variants. If ONLY ONE block type could be used which is clearly not true from the flower picture then there can be just 18 voxels within each sculpted block. This enough for 2×2×2 micro blocks in each block but not enough for 3×3×3. For 16×16×16, you would need 4096 bits.
If multiple blocks can be used then there are basically no options available and it would not work. You would need 40960 bits for 16×16×16 and even more for paintables etc. However…
‘What about memory banks? They can hold 1024 bits of data.’ Yes. Yes they can. I think that memory banks have block entities connected to them like chests etc. This basically gives them unlimited memory. The point is that this doesn’t need 32 bits as Kaalus said the new feature did. It either needs 4096 bits or 16. 32 is no help.
Additionally for just one block type each sculpted block would take up 0.5kB of space. With multiple block types 5kB. This means that if every block was sculpted each chunk would be at least 160 MB. Eeek. As opposed to 128 kB without.
‘As any programmer worth his salt will tell you, some clever encoding schemes can be used (and I do a lot of these with the electrics), but they are not magic and won’t turn 4 bits into 24.’ [In this case 40960]
Kaalus
Note:
‘Maybe I am wrong. It just seems so impossible.’
I do NOT mean ‘Me? Wrong? Impossible!’
I mean that for MB/sculpting to be added seems impossible.
Should have proof-read before posting.
Did you read my post on custom blocks? Custom blocks solve all of these problems. A normal block also has these problems, like stairs, slabs, fences, trap doors, doors, christmas tree etc. They contain a lot of data. Custom blocks would require data once and then as you use these blocks, they would be just like any other block as mentioned. The more complex they are allowed to be, the more data they will use.
Well you could say that Kaalus could have done this with only 16 bits. Yes he could, but what prevented him from doing so? He did not have enough item id’s. He clearly mentioned this. He will use the 32 bits for the extra block id’s. He will not use it all, since he will still need them for future things like mine carts.
This is the only thing that makes sense upto now.
In voxel engines this is called block sprites and is based on the idea that if everything was just normal blocks there would be no detail so you can something out of normal sized blocks then store the texture coordinates the vertices and light points in a single block
So pretty much you are not storing the individual block data you can just store the object as a whole as a new block type and this is very well possible with 32 bits of data(even though it might take some extremely clever tricks and I think we all know by now that kaalus knows what he doing).
The main thing the extra bits will be needed for, will be for the block id’s. One more thing, the only thing we can deduce from the flower put, is that different colours are used. If it remains one material, then just adding colours will only use 4 bits per “pixel”. That won’t be too much.
I just cannot figure out how electricity can be linked to it. That would complicate it to much.
Hey, I’ve just noticed that the flower looks wooden, so I’m suggesting sculpting like other people, but I’m also thinking that theres a new type of flower, but why a flower that looks like wood? I’m guessing he is still working on that. But also, FLOWER POTS! Great addition Kaalus!
No way… Is he adding a different scale size to build with?! I have seen this in other games! It is such an awesome feature. That would be so insanely epic if he is adding that. Then the building world will be changed FOREVER. So many possibilities if we can add blocks pixel-by-pixel!
Microblocks I think
I’m getting an idea what the big thing may be.
Crafting vases and pots.
It’s On the Cabin Furniture Pack: