Nah, not you, the dude who posted the pic of the derailed train.
(Hint: The "how I learned to stop worrying" is a reference to a Stanley Kubrick movie.)
Thoughts about open source Minecraft alternatives?
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(Hint: The "how I learned to stop worrying" is a reference to a Stanley Kubrick movie.)
If true, then I wasted a perfectly good use of an image.*goes back to his corner*
Then yeah I missed it as well.
Haha, that's fine. We all miss a reference or two. I just happen to be rather fond of Kubrick's work, lol.
Yeah, the graphics need to be redone.[DOUBLEPOST=1410971318][/DOUBLEPOST]
There are only so many ways to do grass, etc., in 16x16 pixels. Which textures specifically are you referring to?
You can be highly moddable with a C++ engine and a Lua API. It just depends on how much you expose through LUA.
With Java, anything and everything is changeable, but with a LUA API the developer limits things.
With Java, anything and everything is changeable, but with a LUA API the developer limits things.
As I understand it, the problem with Minecraft that makes it slow is crappy coding, not the choice of language. Python would at least encourage better coding habits, since there's much less boilerplate crap that goes into every file (and thus more mindspace that can be put toward the algorithms instead), and the whitespace requirement actually improves code structure by enforcing greater readability. I also find Python to be much easier and clearer for implementing any number of details. The only major problem is the GIL (global interpreter lock) which enforces a single thread of execution within a single instance of the interpreter; in this case (threading), Java is substantially better, with finer levels of control and the (potential) ability to use multiple CPU cores during execution rather than only one at a time.
I looked around for information, and it looks like Python's speed is primarily about one's own choices of code implementation; some operations take a lot more oomph than others. Java, on the other hand, seems to perform pretty much the same no matter what choices you make. As for memory usage, that is again usually a choice of implementation, not a default.
Personally, I think a lot could be said for re-implementing Minecraft in BASIC... but who'd even give it a second look? Without a high-speed renderer, the whole project would be sunk on the spot.
I'd like to see Minecraft or clone have a configurable world gen screen, where you define the % water vs landmass, landmass size, and global temperature. So make your own worlds of frozen oceans with tiny islands, or super hot deserts with no water, or, just normal worlds. I would also like it to show you the biomes currently loaded, and you tick the ones you want in your new game. No messing with configs, and finding they don't work due to cross mod conflicts.
Is it pretty much a given that Microsoft will not allow Minecraft code to remain in Java? Due to Microsoft's well-established position against Sun/Oracle and their Java?
If this is indeed the case, then writing open-source alternatives in Java would mean it could never be challenged in court? Because Microsoft's version will be in a different language?
I feel that should be the "next big thing" for Minecraft. There's just so many game variables that appear to be hard coded, which if configurable, would allow massive customisation of vanilla, let alone a modded environment. For a procedurely generated world, it's actually how limited your options are in generating it.
