@DLively, it already looks alot cleaner, keep it up!

Thanks, and Thank you for all your advice Reconnoiter! I personally feel your advice has made some seriously great iprovements at CGForFree

Fixed the latest bugs in the first mini game all works now so the first project is done on to the next

https://youtu.be/4E2Ecfk2yNY

w00t speed programming

Simply amazing.


click to enlarge (3dgs shots)

I am impressed about the result. Can't believe it. I had my doubts about those rings curves but they look great!

@all , thank you for the replies.

I am now at testing noise , then I after that I am going to manage the distance based creation/deletion of chunks etc .

http://wikisend.com/download/291852/noise_test.zip

I am expecting bad performance , but I don't know and I would appreciate anyone giving feedback on the amount of fps they get ,so I can estimate what to do , because on my laptop things aren't running that great yet (without distance management abd other important features) currently.

when ran , this test will be active a small amount then be busy for a while , after that it should read 512 entities on the top left .

the fps I would like to know is during the active rendering part of the entities , and perhaps some modifications to the world. .

f5 d3d_lines -on
f6 d3d_lines -off
x - delete chunk
space -remove block
shift -add block

yellow coloured highlights - shows chunk updates

red coloured highlights - shows newly created chunks

thanks.

@Wjbender
Contant 57-59 fps. d3d lines activated or not. It sometimes get freezed for a tenth part of a second when creating or deleting blocks, but not always.

i5 3.1GH & GeForceGTX660

okay thanks alot txesmi , I was expecting the worst , so I should be able to make a rough performance estimate compared with my fps .

Thank you for taking the time , and yes your model looks just great in gs , to be honest I had a lot of difficulty finding a good workflow for models in to gs from both 3dsmax and blender , modeling was one of my fav past times but when it comes to texturing I suck badly , and I really should'nt because I am not to bad at airbrushing (not the digital kind) and drawing.

tips would be cool

wjbender: 50fps without d3dlines and 45fps with
As txesmi said, there is a slight lag when deleting chunks.

intel Core 2Quad (4cpus) ~2.3Ghz
Geforce G210

@wjbender - I would test it if you real like, but I'm running a 3rd gen i3 Intel HD 4000 with 4 GB ram on a laptop. Based on the status of the 2 machines above with dedicated GPU, I would expect poor performance.

Let me know if you are interested in the numbers.
Mal