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A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft

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Re: A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft

#13

Post by avaer »

colordrops wrote: post #10
sandruso wrote: post #4

Minecraft is becoming DOOM in terms of crazy technical feats. I love it.

Becoming? crazy stuff has been done in Minecraft for the longest time. Someone built a functional CPU and computer in Minecraft in 2010.

I agree: running simulated computers inside of Minecraft is a significantly more impressive technical feat than bolting on display surfaces to planes with a mod.

There's a big difference between something being compiled to run inside of Minecraft, versus running a sidecar that streams back a display. It's the difference between compiling and running on your machine, and streaming back a cloud machine using RDP.

Not like this makes a difference to users, who don't know how any of this works. But we are on Hacker News...

Re: A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft

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Post by avaer »

samtheDamned wrote: post #12

I wonder how this would pair with a VR mod. It doesn't seem like Vivecraft supports the version this was posted for at the moment, but if they had the ability to play nice that seems like it would would be a fun way to experience software.

There are already VR overlay applications that do this on top of any game, not just Minecraft.

Re: A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft

#15

Post by Philpax »

avaer wrote: post #14
samtheDamned wrote: post #12

I wonder how this would pair with a VR mod. It doesn't seem like Vivecraft supports the version this was posted for at the moment, but if they had the ability to play nice that seems like it would would be a fun way to experience software.

There are already VR overlay applications that do this on top of any game, not just Minecraft.

Yes, but part of the fun is doing it in Minecraft and using Minecraft's language for it (e.g. putting windows in your inventory, pulling them out of chests, etc)

Re: A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft

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Post by jwlake »

rcxdude wrote: post #9
tines wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"In Minecraft" doesn't mean what it used to. When somebody wrote an 8-bit CPU literally "in Minecraft" it used to be badass. Now it's just a game addon.

There are multiple ways that something can be "in minecraft"

It was more fun when people implemented gates. :)

Re: A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft

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Post by flexagoon »

avaer wrote: post #13
colordrops wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Becoming? crazy stuff has been done in Minecraft for the longest time. Someone built a functional CPU and computer in Minecraft in 2010.

I agree: running simulated computers inside of Minecraft is a significantly more impressive technical feat than bolting on display surfaces to planes with a mod. There's a big difference between something being compiled to run inside of Minecraft, versus running a sidecar that streams back a display. It's the difference between compiling and running on your machine, and streaming back a cloud machine using RDP. Not l…

Just because someone has done a more impressive project in Minecraft doesn't mean this one isn't interesting
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