Time  Nick          Message
17:33 saschaheylik  we should make the game theme based on ancient egypt with all it's mysticism, magic, alchemy, alien high tech and pyramids... that just fits perfectly
17:34 saschaheylik  gives us a clearer goal and theme for the items and everything, some sort of story/quest line
17:34 saschaheylik  i gotta write this down...
18:59 saschaheylik_ <Rosenzweig> Got something funny to share about proceduralism.
18:59 saschaheylik_ <Rosenzweig> "Question. If in a forest, there's an atom on a leaf, that's the exact same green colored atom on a blade of grass, do I load it into memory twice?
18:59 saschaheylik_ <Rosenzweig> I ask this because, if every colored atom was stored separately, it all could be held in RAM.
18:59 saschaheylik_ <Rosenzweig> Even if we used 5 Bytes for each "colored atom". 16.7M colors at 5 Bytes is only 81.5 MB's. Euclideon renders atom by atom, so pre-loading every colored atom into RAM, means they could access what they need on the fly without extremely large datasets."
18:59 saschaheylik_ <saschaheylik_> thats not a bad idea
18:59 saschaheylik_ from #gamedev
18:59 saschaheylik_ it could at the very least save some memory
19:02 saschaheylik_ basically that would mean that each unique state of a voxel is a seperate type while the geometric data is nothing more than position:type pairs
19:12 celeron55     in minetest, the properties of each unique voxel are stored only once, and the world is a grid of ids of those with a very small bit of extra data
19:12 celeron55     once again it is the basis of how the thing can even work in the first place
19:20 saschaheylik_ oh ok