stuck on trying to figure out how i wanna handle block rotations in block game 😔

[lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko Are we talking 90° rotations around primary axes or generic rotations?

[raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest]

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
An animation showing the block turning would be cute if it's not difficult.
Assuming I understand the problem.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lisyarus 90 degree rotations

but also, maybe not all of them?

but maybe all of them

i don't know. that's part of the problem

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@raccoon no, right corners only. like furnaces or observers in minecraft

[raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest]

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
I don't understand

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

maybe i will make a rotated block kind, and then add some bits to that to define the type of rotation, so that i can start simple and add more complex rotations later if i want and or need to

because not all rotations apply to all rotatable blocks. for example, a door only has east/west and north/south, whereas something like a minecraft furnace has east, west, north, and south facing, but not up or down

[fabiosantoscode@mastodon.social]

@eniko @lisyarus a rotation limited to "up/down" and "clockwise/counter" could map nicely to mouse motion, though you can't do a roll.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@raccoon I think @eniko means rotation as in “which face should point east?” which is important for some nodes (e.g. a furnace has an opening, and the user should be able to decide which way the opening is pointing)

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@fabiosantoscode @eniko @lisyarus

NodeCore has an extension that makes it very easy to control rotations, which I love

https://git.mcft.net/copygirl/nc_extended_rotating

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

ugh adding a new rotating block kind adds so many complications. i really like the generic vs complex block flow, but i don't want *every* rotating block to necessarily be a complex block either

i could allocate 3 bits of the block type for rotation/facing and i'd still have plenty of space left but it feels so wasteful when most blocks can't have a facing anyway >_<

[dotstdy@mastodon.social]

@eniko fwiw you don't need to statically allocate bits, you can have some shared bits which have different interpretation depending on the kind of block you're dealing with.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@dotstdy @eniko and then you ALWAYS end up with one specific block type that suddenly needs both, because Murphy ;-)

[fabiosantoscode@mastodon.social]

@oblomov

The horizontal bit sounds like it would be very intuitive

> Click near an edge, and the node will be rotated 90° away from you.

It's like there's a stick up the center of the cube and you push it with your hand, making it rotate physically.

I'm guessing it works vertically too. The same situation but the stick would be horizontal