Horizon mapping is a method of shadow mapping specific to height maps.
It can handle any angle between 0 and 90 degrees from the ground, as
long as know the horizontal direction in advance, by remembering only a
single angle (the "horizon angle" of the shadow map). More is explained
in common/src/msg/server.rs. We also remember the approximate height of
the largest occluder, to try to be able to generate soft shadows and
create a vertical position where the shadows can't go higher.
Additionally, map generation has been reworked. Instead of computing
everything from explicit samples, we pass in sampling functions that
return exactly what the map generator needs. This allows us to cleanly
separate the way we sample things like altitudes and colors from the map
generation process. We exploit this to generate maps *partially* on the
server (with colors and rivers, but not shading). We can then send the
partially completed map to the client, which can combine it with shadow
information to generate the final map. This is useful for two reasons:
first, it makes sure the client can apply shadow information by itself,
and second, it lets us pass the unshaded map for use with level of
detail functionality.
For similar reasons, river generation is split
out into its own layer, but for now we opt to still generate rivers on
the server (since the river wire format is more complicated to compress
and may require some extra work to make sure we have enough precision to
draw rivers well enough for LoD).
Finally, the mostly ad-hoc lighting we were performing has been (mostly)
replaced with explicit Phong reflection shading (including specular
highlights). Regularizing this seems useful and helps clarify the
"meaning" of the various light intensities, and helps us keep a more
physically plausible basis. However, its interaction with soft shadows
is still imperfect, and it's not yet clear to me what we need to do to
turn this into something useful for LoD.
Adds removing extra components and deleting entities clientside when
going back to the character screen. Also, simplifies ClientState by
removing the Dead variant and removing ClientMsg::StateRequest in favor
of more specific ClientMsg variants.
fix(overflow): Stops including block updates that fail (since chunks
don't exist on the client) in `TerrainUpdates` (which would trigger
meshing of those nonexistent chunks). Furthermore, removes
remeshing of chunks with block updates if those chunks don't have all their
neighbours (since those wouldn't be meshed in the first place).
- Clarify caffeine fueled comment
- Be better at comparing Instant's, and catch the 0 seconds case to say
Goodbye to the user
- Switch println for 'info!'
- Bugfix: Check whether the server response (pong) is greater than the timeout period, rather than the ping (which will always fire regardless of connection status) This was causing the timeout error event to never fire.
- Feature: Send the player notifications to the chat window that they will be kicked due to disconnection for 6 seconds before kicking them back to the main menu.
