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How to generate houses procedurally in a voxel world?
I am developing a mod for the game Minecraft, a block-based voxel game. As part of the mod, I want to create a procedural house generator that will be generated based on specific needs/desires, such ...
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What causes the pre-1.8 Minecraft far lands to generate? [closed]
Before Minecraft Beta 1.8, when you reached about x:3000000 y:3000000, the terrain generator would freak out and begin generating broken scary land.
What went on in the MC code to provoke this? Why ...
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How do I efficiently generate chunks to fill entire screen when my player moves?
In my game I generate chunks when the player moves. The chunks are all generated on the fly, but currently I just created a simple flat 8X8 floor. What happens is that when he moves to a new chunk ...
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Parallelizing creation of geometry chunks in minecraft-like game
In my game I separate creation of chunks into two stages. The first is where I generate the heightmap using simplex noise and the 2nd is when I create the actual vertex buffers. I do it like this so ...
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Large Blob of landmass in Minecraft Terrain Engine in XNA
I am creating a Minecraft Terrain engine in XNA, and want to create a large blob/cluster of blocks, in a random sort of blob thing, shaped somewhat like the stuff under the Volume Rendering heading on ...
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How can I generate floating land masses for a Minecraft-like engine?
I am creating a Minecraft-like engine in XNA. What I want to do is create floating islands similar to the one shown in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqHVOEPQK5g&feature=related
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How does Minecraft world generation happen?
How does Minecraft create completely unique worlds and biomes, from a seed?
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How is a 3d perlin noise function used to generate terrain?
I can wrap my head around using a 2d perlin noise function to generate the height value but I don't understand why a 3d perlin noise function would be used. In Notch's blog, ...
