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ALL POSTSSightseeing á la Middle-Earth
<p>I've always wanted to feel like Frodo on Amon Hen, seeing all the way to Barad-dûr, ect. Sadly, Minecraft does not support seeing this far. However, i've come up with an Idea how this can be implemented without totally toasting your PC. Without further ado, here's the Idea: A custom skybox, wich enables once you reach a certian height in a certain Biome, for Example the height on wich you'd recieve the Mountaineer achievement (Above the Cloud Layer) in the Wind mountains biome. However; this would require another texture for the skybox for every 16 chunks or so, since the perspective changes. To change this there could be differend Points from wich one could see afar, for Example Minas Tirith, Barad-dûr, Amon Hen, Amon Sul (If rebuilt) and Erebor. This is better than the previously named method because it would only require different textures for the different Points.
</p><p>EDIT: The skybox would show the Major builds (Even if they're not there yet), and the Different Biomes
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<p>I love the idea, it would do wonders for immersion in my mind. However, I think the structures should be left out, the'd be too small to see in most cases anyway.
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<p>At least to start, only mountains and possibly seas and forests would be best. Whole biomes seems harder
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<p>There was something I saw I saw with Veloren about seeing far in a generated voxel world, but I wasn't really able to find any more interesting info, I'd be interested to see how they do it in these screenies: https://veloren.net/devblog-56/
</p><p>Tbh the thing that costs so much to render MC worlds is that you have to iterate over every block and do a reasonably expensive set of calculations in order to be able to render, if one were able to reduce the cost of that iteration (by say, iterating over every other block, or every third, depending on distance), you could theoretically extend render distances really far. I might do some looking into forge API and just see if I can wrap my head around how rendering works.
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<p>One technical thing which could be an issue is the fact that mountains and features would have to stay in place whilst the rest of the sky moves. So two seperate skyboxes, a foreground skybox which stays stationary featuring mountains, ETC and a moving background skybox with the stars will be needed. I have no idea if minecraft would be able to support this.
</p><p>Another think I would be interested in the possibility of is the ability for the skybox to feature animations. For example if a great storm cloud could be seen over Mordor which could occasionally light up with thunder or the glow from Mount doom, briefly shining through the darkness of Mordor in some cool red tint, similar to the scene in the movies when they see Mordor from Emyn Muil.
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One technical thing which could be an issue is the fact that mountains and features would have to stay in place whilst the rest of the sky moves. So two seperate skyboxes, a foreground skybox which stays stationary featuring mountains, ETC and a moving background skybox with the stars will be needed.</i></div>
<p>what do you mean the rest of the sky moves? </p>
One technical thing which could be an issue is the fact that mountains and features would have to stay in place whilst the rest of the sky moves. So two seperate skyboxes, a foreground skybox which stays stationary featuring mountains, ETC and a moving background skybox with the stars will be needed.</i></div>
<p>what do you mean the rest of the sky moves? </p>
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<p>With the day night cycle presumably.
</p><p>I got a response on the Veloren discord:
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<div class="quote"><i>Currently, visuals are rendered up to a View Distance setting, much like in Minecraft. LOD [level of detail] adds a different system beneath that, which is effectively a heightmap of the entire world. It's in progress, and getting fairly close to being done.
You can try it out if you're able to compile yourself.</i></div>
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<p>Oh, I forgot about the day night cycle movement. Maybe cause it’s slow I didn’t remember that it does in fact move :)
Although it would be amazing to have something like Samwise is talking about, perhaps some fixed images in the skybox would be more achievable.
~Orneno (not logged in on my phone)
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<p>I feel like the only realistic and not hugely time consuming to code and RAM destroying way of doing this would just to have some skyboxes textured by Gruk. I wouldn't see this as a bad thing. If the current stars skybox he has created is anything to go by a skybox showing mountains in the distance, ETC may just be a styalised 2d painting of sorts but would certaintly look absolutely amazing. Although it would probably still be a huge task.
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<div class="quote"><i>TheStudyOfTheUnknown wrote:
I feel like the only realistic and not hugely time consuming to code and RAM destroying way of doing this would just to have some skyboxes textured by Gruk. I wouldn't see this as a bad thing. If the current stars skybox he has created is anything to go by a skybox showing mountains in the distance, ETC may just be a styalised 2d painting of sorts but would certaintly look absolutely amazing. Although it would probably still be a huge task.</i></div>
<p>That was my thought with the above comment too. I'd prefer something like this to nothing at all because of getting distracted with some complete reworking of Minecraft's rendering </p>
I feel like the only realistic and not hugely time consuming to code and RAM destroying way of doing this would just to have some skyboxes textured by Gruk. I wouldn't see this as a bad thing. If the current stars skybox he has created is anything to go by a skybox showing mountains in the distance, ETC may just be a styalised 2d painting of sorts but would certaintly look absolutely amazing. Although it would probably still be a huge task.</i></div>
<p>That was my thought with the above comment too. I'd prefer something like this to nothing at all because of getting distracted with some complete reworking of Minecraft's rendering </p>
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i reallly hope someone from the mod team sees this and adds it
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