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HOW DO I CHANGE BLOCK LIMIT, IN CONFIG THE FILE DOESNT OPEN

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Okay, so fr0stbyte could probably explain it better and I may be entirely wrong but what I'm getting from the video and his explanation is that, right now, its an entity that copies the render data of a chunk (what the game is using to draw the chunk in 3d) in real-time, so at the moment, it basically amounts to a hologram of the visible surfaces of a given chunk. It appears to have some collision properties with blocks as well.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

Hopefully I'm at least somewhat right :tongue.gif: .

Quote from fr0stbyte124

Haven't decided how much realism I'm going to shoot for in the portal system. It's going to depend a lot on how it's deployed, but by that point the project will have its own thread to discuss it in.

Technical bit: What you are seeing in the video is an entity that has assumed the pre-compiled render data of a 16x16x16 chunk of terrain, attached to an arrow (pitch and yaw were disabled because it looked too weird). Thousands of these world renderers are being drawn to the screen every frame, so you could add even a few hundred more without appreciable frame drop. For now they reflect chunks that exist in the real world, but later they will be from chunks in a zeppelin-like pocket dimension. The hard part comes after with the adjusted collision models in the next stage, but I've got it pretty much ironed out on paper.

Portals can be done surprisingly easy in this framework, by using custom entity rendering to act as a second camera viewpoint from some other location. This should be possible not just from point A to point B in the normal world, but to the nether or aether, or even other servers in SMP. That's a long way down on the roadmap, though.