Feature Validation Updates

[FamroFexl]

What are the recent developments with features?

[FamroFexl]

Just validated that previously client-handled functions can now be handled by the server, enabling vanilla client support for world wrapping! Amazing!

[FamroFexl]

This will increase the computational load on the server, but I think vanilla client support is worth it! Maybe requiring clients who use mod loaders to have Circumnavigate installed will help unburden the server, as they can handle their own calculations.

I still haven't profiled the additional overhead all of the mixins and coordinate transformations will incur.

[FamroFexl]

Validated that 4D noise generation will work for producing seamless edges in regularly-wrapped world. It is yet to be known if the same applies for chunk-shifted worlds.

The image below is a 4D-generated image tiled into a 4x4 with green dividers. Notice the seamless intersection between the blob sections.

[FamroFexl]

From what I understand, 4D perlin noise is significantly more computationally expensive for world generation than vanilla's traditional 2D perlin noise. This computational load will also rise due to the new 3D cave features, which will require a 5D perlin noise implementation.

[FamroFexl]

From what I understand, 4D perlin noise is significantly more computationally expensive for world generation than vanilla's traditional 2D perlin noise. This computational load will also rise due to the new 3D cave features, which will require a 5D perlin noise implementation.

Noise generation algorithms provided by https://github.com/KdotJPG/OpenSimplex2. 5D noise generation might have to be commissioned from @KdotJPG or other mathematicians.

[FamroFexl]

From what I understand, 4D perlin noise is significantly more computationally expensive for world generation than vanilla's traditional 2D perlin noise. This computational load will also rise due to the new 3D cave features, which will require a 5D perlin noise implementation.

This might just be hearsay. It might just be that Y values will wrap as they have in the rest of the mod.

[FamroFexl]

Using an Authgraph world projection (which is the most accurate 2d tileable world map projection I know of), it is possible to create fully trans-navigable earth minecraft worlds.

[FamroFexl]

Now as you can see, it isn't as straightforward a mapping process as first believed. For instance, chunks will have to be flipped and switched in order to accommodate this system.