Progress screenshots with comments

[bvssvni]

@eddyb extracted a chunk of blocks from the NTB format.

[eddyb]

I updated the image to the second screenshot, using nearest min/mag filters, correct grass texture and proper block cube model size.

[bvssvni]

Another teaser from @eddyb :

[eddyb]

It's technically a ravine.
It's also the first screenshot I made public, after implementing blockstate loading (using vanilla assets) and cross-chunk neighboring (which makes my "smooth" lighting work and removes a lot of unnecessary polygons).
Some of the light there is coming from lava, I believe.
Sadly, liquids are some of the more complicated blocks that don't use the new blockstate JSON format (each corner of a flowing water block depends on neighboring blocks - you could easily go above 2^16 combinations!).

[bvssvni]

Hematite vs Minecraft comparison

[eddyb]

@bvssvni That's hours ago, I'm much closer now :).

[bvssvni]

Hematite vs Minecraft comparison 2

[bvssvni]

@eddyb got it a little faster, but gfx-rs is still slow due to lack of caching states. This is going to change soon...

[bvssvni]

Minecraft 17 fps with 1970 chunks: http://imgur.com/sAcqJMU,BDXFMJq#1

Hemaite 19 fps with 4060 chunks:

[bvssvni]

Here is a snapshot with anisotropic filtering with 16 samples: