#cuberite

@bearbin Apparently, someone mistakenly banned me from the forum.

It's working fine now. Hmm.

LogicParrot, secretly we all want to ban you

D:

how is 1.9 support going btw? I saw a pull request recently

Pokechu22 is working on it. It appears to be almost ready, or ready. It needs more and testing though.

more review and testing*

You can give a hand with testing by grabbing the binaries, and you can already try 1.9

Binaries are here: https://github.com/cuberite/cuberite/pull/3135

ooh cool

it only adds 1.9 protocol support right? not yet all the 1.9 features?

Correct, no 1.9 features at all. Only protocol support.

ok so then work on the features can start

Yep

have you guys thought of moving world gen to a plugin?

I saw your forum post (https://forum.cuberite.org/thread-409.html#pid2...). I am not sure I agree with NiLSPACE that this should be made in a plugin.

hmm

well I really think some enhanced world gen could attract users, and is just really cool too have

people have been complaining about boring world-gen for a long while already

cause tbh, it is boring

But I admit I'm not too acquainted with the generator, so I could be wrong.

But one thing is for sure: Generating is rather heavy. Sounds too heavy for a plugin to me.

If I knew proper C++ I would do it myself but I do not lol

I´m learning though

LogicParrot, yeah I´m thinking the same

@xoft is the generator expert, btw. He wrote this awesome article about how things work. They could help you get started:

It has no code at all. It's an overview of the used concepts.

ooh cool

ooh is he working on terrain generating on the GPU?

Last time I checked he was investigating it. I don't know if there's progress there.

although that is pretty cool, no use for me sadly. my servers don´t use gpu´s haha. maybe they can use the iGPU´s of the processors though

"Much of the terain generation consists of doing the same thing for every single column or block in a chunk. This sort of computation is much faster on a GPU as GPUs are massively parallel. High end GPUs can execute up to 30,000 threads simultaneously, which would allow them to generate every block in half a chunk in parallel or every column in over 100 chunks in parallel. A naive comparison suggests

that a 800MHz GPU with 15,000 threads can execute parallel code 250 times faster than a 3GHz CPU with 128 bit SIMD. Obviously we want to harness that power."

yeah I´ve read it

Also, someone (xoft?) suggested splitting the generator into a seperate server.

So, you'd be able to run Cuberite on two PCs, one of them is the master, the other is dedicated for generating chunks.

ooh wow that would be really cool

I would think they would need a good connection between them though

A local connection, ideally.

We haven't seen Xoft lately, though.

is he the one playing Factorio all the time?

-.-

Rumours say his soul was consumed by that game. :P

haha

Where is tigerw... Haven't seen him for quite a long time

He isn't here, he isn't at the forum...

LogicParrot, so for world-gen like I suggested in the forum, I would need Xoft?

Probably.

LogicParrot, also, could you get binaries for FreeBSD as well?

(for 1.9 pr)

We'd need to ping @bearbin for more binaries.

@guenstig_werben: I've been somewhat lonely in the past 30 days or so. But now it seems @TigerW and @worktycho are back.

Tiger was never on IRC, though.

@bearbin Any chance we make the CI support BSD for the ingame-testing-needed branch?

LogicParrot, is there anything easy I could have a try at working on in Cuberite? I´m learning myself some C++, and would love to have something I could actually use

There are several "Easy" issues you might want to try

Logicparrot: build created