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1.8 Updates: First Ravines, Now Rivers!

Posted: August 21st, 2011, 10:08 am
by Sennec
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Sweeet, I'm so looking forward to 1.8

Re: 1.8 Updates: First Ravines, Now Rivers!

Posted: August 21st, 2011, 11:32 am
by Bloody_Llama
What concerns me is this:
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Apparently Notch can look right at this and not see a problem with this. It's been around forever, and it won't go away until Notch releases the damn source code. (forgive the crooked lines)

To illustrate my point, here are two of the more blatant examples I've discovered in my wanderings. From what I can tell, the generation techniques that cause this have not be fixed at all.
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Re: 1.8 Updates: First Ravines, Now Rivers!

Posted: August 21st, 2011, 11:40 am
by Sanjar Khan
So Notch is implementing things I have been able to do with Fragmer's terrain gen for months.
Now that I think of it, I don't believe I have ever been able to gen boxy rivers

Re: 1.8 Updates: First Ravines, Now Rivers!

Posted: August 21st, 2011, 11:50 am
by Ollieboy
Goddamit Llama, now I'm going to see that ALL THE TIME.

Re: 1.8 Updates: First Ravines, Now Rivers!

Posted: August 21st, 2011, 11:52 am
by Bloody_Llama
I can't stop seeing it myself. I ALWAYS notice Notch's annoying giant corners on everything.

Re: 1.8 Updates: First Ravines, Now Rivers!

Posted: August 23rd, 2011, 2:06 am
by Hafnium
He needs a finer octave on his perlin generator is all.

Re: 1.8 Updates: First Ravines, Now Rivers!

Posted: August 23rd, 2011, 7:53 am
by Intertoothh
Hafnium wrote:He needs a finer octave on his perlin generator is all.
And maybe clear the garbage collector once a while.

Re: 1.8 Updates: First Ravines, Now Rivers!

Posted: August 25th, 2011, 4:03 pm
by Bloody_Llama
Hehe, newly genned map. Need I say more?
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Damn thing's so big I had to fish-eye the whole damn thing to get it in one screen.
Fun fact: That picture is 4 pixels wider than my monitor.

Some more LOLNotch in action:
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Some real efficient server action eh? (And yea, that screenies old, and I was using Zombe's mod pack)

Re: 1.8 Updates: First Ravines, Now Rivers!

Posted: August 26th, 2011, 12:53 am
by Ollieboy
Yeah I hate the random loading shit. Especially when driving a cart. Silly notch.