Building a voxel engine like Minecraft in Unity (2 of 2)
Part 2 of the voxel engine introduction: turning chunk data into renderable polygon meshes in Unity, one Mesh per chunk, and only drawing the faces that can actually be seen.
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Building a voxel engine like Minecraft in Unity (1 of 2)
My Christmas vacation project: a basic introduction to voxel engines à la Minecraft. Part 1 covers what voxels are, polygon meshes, and how to represent a voxel world in memory without hitting limits.
Comparison of Environment.TickCount, DateTime.Now.Ticks and Stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds
Game loops check timers constantly, so how cheap is reading time? Environment.TickCount: 7ms for a million reads. DateTime.Now.Ticks: 1392ms. The numbers, and when each is the right choice.