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

[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 ;-)