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Firstly, most importantly, improves the heuristic used for deciding which chunks to mesh (which matters more even at low view distances with meshing being so expensive now, but has an even more obvious improvement at large view distances). Essentially, instead of always prioritizing whatever chunk was fetched earliest from the server, instead we prioritize chunks *closest* to the player first, then chunk order. This greatly improves the apparent latency for things like picking up a sprite, as well as cases where the player moves out of the loaded range but (due to slow loading from the server or a large VD range) there are many remaining chunks left to be meshed still within the VD but nowhere near the player. By properly priotizing chunks near the player, we minimize the time / likelihood of a player being on or very near an unmeshed chunk, and make high VDs and faster travel speeds more viable. We make a few other minor improvements as well: Avoid duplicate meshing of neighbors when first inserting chunks, if they are already in the todo list and the chunk being inserted was not directly modified. Also avoid remeshing neighbors if only a solid block's color changed, which could sometimes be useful for non-sprite modifications (for example flame-induced changes to non-destructible terrain color). |
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Welcome To Veloren!
Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. Veloren takes inspiration from games such as Cube World, Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. The game is currently under heavy development, but is playable.
Development
Currently the communication of contributors happens mainly on our official Discord server. You can join it to keep up with the development, talk to us or contribute something yourself. Anyone who shows genuine effort to help is welcome in our team. You don't have to know how to program to contribute!
Useful Links
Sign Up - Here you can create an online account for Veloren. This will be needed to play on auth-enabled servers, including the official server.
The Book - A collection of all important information relating to Veloren. It includes information on how to compile Veloren and how to contribute.
Future Plans - Go here for information about Veloren's development roadmap and what we're currently working on.
Official social media and websites
Get Veloren
We provide 64-bit builds for Linux, Mac, and Windows, which can be downloaded on the official website: https://www.veloren.net
Due to rapid development stable versions become outdated fast and might be incompatible with the public server.
If you want to compile Veloren yourself, follow the instructions in our Book.
F.A.Q.
Q: How is this game licensed?
A: It's free to play, modify and distribute. Forever. Since it is a community project, we decided to license it under the GNU GPL 3.0 license which means it will always stay free and open source.
Q: What platforms are supported?
A: Veloren can run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS on all architectures (although x86_64 is our main focus). It's probably possible to compile Veloren on/for BSD, Fuchsia and others as well.
Q: Do you accept donations?
A: You can support the project on our OpenCollective Page.
Credit
Many thanks to everyone that has contributed to Veloren's development, provided ideas, crafted art, composed music, hunted bugs, created tools and supported the project.