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How to put OpenGL in a state for drawing blended, colored, nontextured polys?
Using OpenGL1.1 (sadly) I'm trying to draw a cube, which is colored and alpha blended. It is instead showing up as opaque black. Even without including alpha in the color it still shows up as opaque ...
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Is OpenGL 1.1 really slow? [closed]
If anyone ever played minecraft and realized no matter what computer you have it normally doesn't give over 100 FPS? While looking at decompiled code from it I noticed it renders with OpenGL 1.1 ...
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How can I improve rendering speeds of a Voxel/Minecraft type game?
I'm writing my own clone of Minecraft (also written in Java). It works great right now. With a viewing distance of 40 meters I can easily hit 60 FPS on my MacBook Pro 8,1. (Intel i5 + Intel HD ...
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Am I allowed to make my Minecraft clone open source?
I'm developing in my spare time a game like Minecraft. In fact, it isn't "like Minecraft", because I'm trying to make it a close as possible copy of it (meant as exercise for myself at the age of 16 ...
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Texture antialiasing?
In my Minecraft-clone style game, blocks are textured with a border that is lighter then the block color. See picture below:
To achieve this effect without the textures being blurry I use this ...
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Need some help implementing VBO's with Frustum Culling
i'm currently developing my first 3D game for a school project, the game world is completely inspired by minecraft (world completely made out of cubes). I'm currently seeking to improve the ...
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How does this snippet of code create a ray direction vector?
In the Minecraft source code, this code is used to create a direction vector for a ray from pitch and yaw:'
float f1 = MathHelper.cos(-rotationYaw * 0.01745329F - 3.141593F);
float f3 = ...
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How to insert and remove blocks quickly in a Minecraftian world?
I currently have volume data for the world stored as an array of booleans. I then check each empty block and if it has non-empty neighbors the faces get drawn. This prevents me from sending a bunch ...
