Minecraft Voxel Engine (INCOMPLETE)

Day 14, 15 & 16
This week wasn’t much productive as I only coded for about 7 hours, and I am worried that I may fail the Lock In sidequest but let’s see. Progress:

1. INSANE Optimisation. By Insane I mean:
   Before -> for 60 fps: Maximum ~5500 blocks
   Now —> for 60 fps: Maximum ~330,000 blocks
   It’s 60x more powerful!

2. Refactored all of the chunk files and made multiple files for each task. Half of the time was taken to fix a bug which completely broke the block selection.

3. Added void damage as suggested in the feedback!

Day 13
It’s actually 1:40 AM right now and I am actually about to do my first ship! The only thing remaining is the banner. Here’s what I did today:

• Added Hunger and Health bars
• Created a demo page and hosted using Github Pages
• Added Right hand controls
• Created a README

Day 12

• Completed making a basic hotbar. The current selected hotbar can be changed either with keys (1-9) or by using the scroll wheel.
• Fixed a bug where the player kind of double jumps.
• Fixed another bug where the block breaking cooldown does not reset when changing the selected block.
• Created an experience bar.

I will complete the HUD as soon as possible and then set up the demo, project banner, README, etc because I want to submit this project and mark as made for Physics Engine Sidequest.

Day 11

• Fixed a bug where the player was not able to jump due to low epsilon.
• Fixed another major bug which could not place blocks in the negative x, y and z axes.
• Started making the HUD.
• Currently on completing the hotbar.

Future Plan:

• Complete the basic HUDs and the next few days.
• Start optimizing the game.

Day 10
Changes:

• Cleaned code for interactions
• Saved chunks (not locally) when removing for render.
• Gave the player to ability to place blocks.
• Fixed a bug where is disables the player to jump.

Found out a bug where it does not place blocks in the negative x, y and z axes.

Day 9
Today had been a great progress, though it does not seem that ground breaking.

• Reorganised the Player States
• Added a Blocks Selector
• Fixed many tiny bugs
• Gave player, the ability to break blocks. (Has to be improved)

To-do’s:

• Found out another bug related to crouching, where if you crouch while in a massive FPS drop, the player may fall off the edge.
• Have to make the block selector better

Day 8
I completed shifting to the player-based approach and now I can start making new features again. Now there is no duplication of player y offset.

• Fixed Player based approach.
• Prohibited the player to uncrouch under some circumstances.

Day 7
I have started to migrate towards calculating the player’s stuff based on a new THREE.Group() object called Player. It is not completed yet and will take time to do so.

Day 6
I worked on the game for about 1.5 hours and while it was quite some less time, I could complete most of my short-term goals. Today was mostly based on Movement mechanics.

• Added the crouch functionality.
• Converted the static speed to velocity approach with friction so that it slides.
• Made the FOV react to speed and not with binary sprint state.
• Added a basic crosshair.

To-do’s:

• Completely rewrite the current method to move the player as it is a massive flaw.
• Add a highlight towards the block selected.

Day 5
Still, I worked more towards the visuals than any functionality. Here’s what I did:

• Added ticks in the delta file.
• Added sky colours based on the time.
• Replaced the Directional light with a faint sunlight.
• Made the Ambient Light, the Main Light. (I will have to change that pretty soon)
• Added sun and moon.

To-do’s:

• Make the FOV lerp to depend upon the speed and not sprint.
• Add the crouch function
• Add smooth lighting

Day 4
Great visual improvements. Most of the time went in figuring out how to make the camera go slightly down when crouching without breaking the collision.

• Fixed the Hitbox Visualizer
• Added grass texture
• Had to reduce chunk size from 16x16 to 4x4
• Added lerp for FOV when sprinting
• Added multiple cameras for different POVs including crouch
• Added lerp for the Camera’s Y axis when crouching.

To-Dos:

• Make the FOV lerp to depend upon the speed and not sprint.
• Add the crouch function

I will start optimising probably in the next week.

Day 3
Could not work on this more much time due to my academic classes. I wish that I could though. Just figured out that there is a deadline and now I have to code for 5 hours a day to reach my goal.

• Fixed a critical collision bug
• Improved delta speed
• Added walk, crouch and sprint states
• Made a separate class for Hitbox which would probably help me in future.
• Added some dots for hitbox debug (incomplete)

Day 2
This had been a lot of troubleshooting. 6 hours 29 minutes is the time I had been coding. I spent about 3 hours thinking on how to fix my collision system. This devlog is posted one day late due to the maintenance of Hackatime.

• Added some basic Player Movement (similar to Minecraft Creative Mode)
• Added Infinite World Generation
• Integrated delta in Player’s Movement function
• Added Player Collisions (took 5 hours alone)
• Added Gravity ofc.
• Refactored the script.js file into many separate files to structure it properly.

Day 1
Made many more changes!

• Added a flat plain

• Made the camera controllable

• Install Perlin Library

• Changed all its vertices’ height according to Perlin.

• Colour coded each vertex to either water, grass, or mountain.
  The first screenshot is the outcome of all the above.

• Added FPS, Memory and Latency stats using a Node Library.

• Deleted the plane terrain code

• Created a cube for each block and placed it according to its position.

• Added chunk system
  The second screenshot is the final outcome for today.

I have decided to first complete the infinite terrain generation without optimising and optimise after completing it, so that the difference would be clearly visible.

I started with basic HTML and JavaScript files.

• I imported Three.js renderer through CDN. (This was my first time using Three)
• Made a rotating green cube.
  For my next step, I tried moving the camera. I realized that there were several problems with my basic setup. After more than 20 minutes of troubleshooting, I migrated to Node.js and Vite and installed the Three package.