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PowerCraft: a Minecraft clone in Unity3D

Personal project notes

Optimization & architectural ideas

  • Block inherits from BaseBlock as a very crude way to optimize memory usage during terrain generation. Block and Item, however, share a lot of functionality. Logically, they also stand similar. Block and Item should inherit from a common base class.
  • As of right now, each block is represented by its own class. That's perfectly fine since each block implements its own custom behaviour. Runtime instantiation, however, is very expensive. A lot of the instantiation is done just to recuperate block & item basic properties, thus bringing to the following new potential structure.

Basic BaseObject information (Block and Item) should be stored inside JSON files. At load time, every JSON file gets parsed and cached cutting info access time to its bone, given each parsed instance would be stored in a hashtable. Since BaseObject's are now available, the BaseObject hash could be used during terrain generation.

GUI texture updates as of right now do not take into account textures that do not need to be redrawn: diffing would be very beneficial.