Didn't look right with sparks going through glass, and still
didn't look right having sparks hit glass and go sliding off
to the side at constant velocity.
After much discussion about things like wind velocity, it was
concluded that many fires are indoors or underground, and the
check to see if they're out in the open is not worth the cost.
There is now a "dirt cycle" in NodeCore ecology. Trees consume
dirt, and stumps now no longer return it. Players need to compost
leaves by burying them away from light near dirt, which will then
allow them to create new dirt.
This is one step closer to viable skyblock gameplay.
- Leaves left in the sun decay to nothing.
- Leaves deprived of air decay into dirt.
TODO:
- Decay out of stack nodes, half-life qty?
- Dig particle effects for node destruction; create API and
apply to other places?
- Make some adjustments to player entity location finding.
- Genericize crush damage logic to apply to item entities too.
- Item ents cause only 20% crushing damage.
The old method was designed for 0.4 compatibility. Since 5.0
there appears to be a flag we can just check to see if the item
is still moving according to physics or settled.
When removing a stack, if there is a stack above, move it
immediately into place of the removed stack. This works
recursively, so stack nodes never have a chance to break out
into item entities, fall to the bottom and make a huge mess.
Unfortunately there isn't a very good visual for the stack
shifting down yet, but at least the gameplay is there.
When a leaf node is displaced by crushing by a falling node,
instead of ejecting an item, try to place the node itself within
a reasonable distance.
This shoudl reduce the number of stack nodes generated from tree
canopy decay, and should alleviate the inconsistency of leaves
falling sometimes as nodes and sometimes as stacks.
- Make handhold nodes glow, to visually simulate the player
character's now "familarity" with them by feel. We have to
represent it synesthetically because the game only gives us
sight and sound to work with.
- Make floors "scalable" so that they glow, even though they
don't affect maneuverability.
The effect of this is to allow a player who has fallen into a dark
cavern to navigate, slowly, by feel, allowing more extensive
self-rescue possibilities.
