Re: Game world and implementation

[Max]

@Gregorius

With not embedded in the Octree I mean the Octree only knows the index or pointer of the Block at each position. If something on a Block is changed, it will just make a new Block with the Stats of the old Block, and then add the changed Stat to the new Block Stats. And if that happens to make the Block identical to another Block that already exists somewhere in the World, it would use that Blocks Data instead. (that would work like a hashtable or similar)

Okay, so for example if you have fifteen identical trees, then fifteen leaf nodes in the octree correspond to the bottom of a tree. In turn, each of those nodes points to a single block object which says “I’m the bottom of a tree”.

And so the maximum number of block objects which may have to exist is equal to the maximum number of permutations of valid block data, correct?