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How would I go about chunk loading around player in a 3 dimensional cartesian coordinate space [closed]

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Closed as unclear by cuzzo‭ on Nov 7, 2022 at 17:26

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So I am in the process of creating a voxel sandbox survival game (minecraft clone) in javaFX. I am at a point where I need to come up with a way to load the chunks in my surrounding given a render distance setting.

At first I thought this was a simple as iterating through the chunk coordinates in the players vicinity and adding them to the world if they did not already exist (done by initializing new chunk) or adding a pre-existing chunk if they did (done by manager) such as this:

public ArrayList<Chunk> getChunksToRender() {
//Defines the starting chunk to begin iteration. This chunk is in the corner of the area that should be rendered
//playerChunk is the chunk that the player is currently in.
//Chunks are at locations divisible by 16, e.x 0,0,0 |16,16,0 | 16,32,0
        Point3D start = new Point3D(playerChunk.getLocation().getX() + (renderDistance * bounds),
                playerChunk.getLocation().getY() + (renderDistance * bounds), playerChunk.getLocation().getZ());

        

        chunks = new ArrayList<>();
        for (int i = (int) start.getX(); i < start.getX() + (renderDistance * bounds); i+= bounds) {
            for (int j = (int) start.getY(); j < start.getY() + (renderDistance * bounds); j+= bounds) {
                if (manager.containsChunkWithLocation(new Point3D(i, j, 0))) {              
                    //Gets pre existing chunk from chunk manager and adds it to chunks to be rendered
                    chunks.add(manager.getChunkWithLocation(new Point3D(i, j, 0)));
                }
                else {
                    //Creates new Chunk at location (i, j, 0) xyz coords
                    chunks.add(new Chunk().initialize(i, j, 0));
                }
            }
        }
        //Returns chunks to be added to world by chunk manager
        return chunks;
}

bounds is the chunk width and height (Same number, 16x16 in this case). All chunks are at the same Z coordinate (vertical). However as chunks are created and loaded around a player, they eventually cross the x and y axis. I am trying to think of a solution that accounts for the eventual transition from a negative coordinate to a positive and from positive to negative.

A visual example of what I was going for below. The green arrow represents the order in which the chunks would load, iterating through each one in the players vicinity and loading it: Chunk loading concept

But I quickly remembered that this 3D space is cartesian and this method quickly falls apart when an axis is encountered.

How would I go about implementing something that accounts for axis? I'm not necessarily looking for code, but I am just not sure how to go about doing this. Any help would be appreciated!

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"Falls apart" in what way? (3 comments)

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It seems I'm missing something since the answer should really be obvious. Nonetheless, I'll answer what you appear to be asking to get the obvious case out of the way.


The method has already "fallen apart" due to the extra axis of 2D. In 1D it's nice and simple. You grab N behind and N in front, all nicely sequential.

Note how your diagram has lines that break the flow and start again at a new Y coordinate. 3D is just an extension of that.

In 2D, you already know how to load a row. You go back and load multiple rows when the Y dimension is added. In 3D, you remember from the 2D case how to load a layer. You go back and load multiple layers when the Z dimension is added.

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Apologies, I may have not been as clear as I wanted to be. All chunks are at the same Z coordinate. H... (2 comments)