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[Org]

I just climbed a mountain.

Oh god tress grow fast.

[Outcast Orange]

Okay, here are the crappiest textures ever:

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Send me your own textures,
 and I'll add them in.

Candidates are 256x256 BMPs.

[jplur]

a little adventure:

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I found some sea meat and ate it!

Edit: Check out my cc-by texture pack http://www.terrasirenum.com/wordpress/?page_id=67

[Outcast Orange]

Can I use these?
They look awesome!

[qwertyuiopas]

For players who want little more than a grid. (Use texture for *everything* that is a block, keep old colours)

[Outcast Orange]

Sounds cool, but white is the transparency color,
 and everything else is opaque.
A good way to achieve that would be to pixelate the grey area.
I sort of like the flat colors and such,
 so I am reluctant to go full texture.
Or at least have a toggle available.

[Outcast Orange]

I've got to stop vowing to things.
Good night Bay12.

[Hippoman]

cool cool. Now in your caves you can have cave drawings.

[Outcast Orange]

Umm... that is like the least of the things that I could do.

But I like the idea.
Maybe later.

For now, I'm going to scour the planet for decent textures,
 and get this thing looking tip top.

If anyone has anything good to donate,
 I'd be happy to add it in.

I still need decent textures for different layers of rock.
EDIT:
Bark texture is also needed badly.

Once I have all materials well represented,
 I'm going to finish up the tree growth bug,
 and release a full texture version.
At first I was worried that the textures destroyed the "feel" of my game,
 but they're starting to grow on me, and the more I mess with them,
 the better it looks.

Thank you Jplur.

[Outcast Orange]

Okay, here is the latest:

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Besides the textures,
 I've also fixed the tree bugs,
 and now they require water to survive.

I don't think it's balanced,
 so if anyone has the time to dedicate,
 let it run an hour, and see if the trees are all dead,
 or overpopulated, or whatever.

I've tweaked the physics of erosion again,
 so now tight water passages through soil will cause a lot more damage.

The game has the added ability to displace Orange,
 so now you can ride on top of those growing waterplate stems.

Cloud Scream 0.40

Feel free to submit better textures.

[Armok]

Lag...

[Outcast Orange]

There are two things causing a slowdown now.
Obviously, the textures,
 but also, a slightly better erosion detection,
 designed to cause mud where a cave river molests a ceiling.

I'm probably just going to put a toggle on textures,
 and they will be an extra thing for people with nice machines.

I'm brainstorming shortcuts, or procedures to deal with the ceiling issue better.

I'm heading out to a home improvement store for materials,
 as I'll be building a new sort of table for my monitors.

[Armok]

OR you could optimize it...

If you got it to change areas properly, you could have a much smaller area loaded at any given time without it feeling restricting, making it lots faster.
Also, you could combine tiles that are not  chang8ing at the moment to larger objects that can be rendered in one go.

[Outcast Orange]

That would just take longer.
For it to combine a 3x3 flat area of tiles,
 it would have to draw the same amount of tiles,
 it would be subject to the same roll through process,
 and on top of that, it would have to do the calculation,
 and figure out if the tiles are static or not.

I've optimized the hell out of it.
It's slow for a reason.
There are a huge amount of tiles being tested for interactions,
 and a ton of moving water also.

[qwertyuiopas]

Display lists?
(If you don't already, one for a textured and one for an untextured terrain cube would likely speed things up a bit. Maybe.)