Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed the video! Quick announcement: When the Discord server gets to 100 members, I'm going to host a mini game jam! The server is so close to 100 already, so if you're interested in the game jam, join the server here: discord.gg/G9zSDfMcZg
I was gonna say something like this but I couldn’t think of a good way to type it so thank you for being better at coming up with thing to say than me ❤
5:39 From experience there is two types of crashes: - Crash that make sense and are actual errors in your program (under some conditions or whatever) - "Random" crashes generally caused by forgetting about thread sync issues, idk about your project but if you have multiples threads doing different tasks and reading or pushing items inside arrays, make sure you lock your threads using std::lock. If you find that your game sometimes randomly crashes and you cannot find out what really causing the crash, this is generally a threads sync issue !
Not in C++. C++ doesn't have as much memory safety as a lot of other languages, so you can easily reference nonexistent data, and get random crashes depending on the random data that's in that spot in RAM. This looks more like they screwed up an index somewhere and it accesses stuff it isn't supposed to.
@@nikkiofthevalley I was actually talking about fully random crashes, the one due to thread sync issues happening at random timing (bcs of data read/written at the same time sometimes). The non referenced data can be easily debugged and found, because reading random data will always lead to a crash, so it's not really what I would call a "random" crash.
@@K3rhos Reading random data doesn't necessarily lead to an outright crash. It could load nonsense data out of view, but as soon as it tries modifying it (which would be random because of the feature system being random) it may or may not crash because it could be allocated but not used memory.
I just want to add that more than half of my crashes when working with OpenGL that are really hard to debug are caused by memory access issues such as calling a buffer draw with the wrong length. This is made worse by thread synchronization in terms of updating said meshes.
I love watching this series. Getting to see first hand what developers face while creating what seems a simple game is quite entertaining and inspiring. Keep up the hard work! 😁
This might be my favourite type of devlog. I much prefer when the technical side is explored than when jokes are thrown in every second. Would love to see you work on the visuals in the future (AO, shadows, coloured lighting, direct lighting, global illumination, or anything really)
@@wsalevancreate a product that can be easily modified, create mods for it from different anonymous accounts to make it look like minecraft after installing all mods.
@@wsalevan Actually, "should" be fine if some things are considered. Most importantly, you cant ship minecraft assets in your own program. Aslong as you dont do that you "should" be fine. Unless factorio and minecraft eula are different in certain ways. There was someone who rewrote the factorio engine, with less features, however much much faster and the devs couldnt have forced them not to release it. He didnt release it after he signed an NDA and got factorio source code access!
You can disable face culling, so it will draw back faces and you wont need double amount of vertices for water. (Dont forget enabling it after) Also cool video
doesnt disabling backface culling basically just tell the gpu to render the vertices a second time but with flipped normals? The end result is the same no? Both process double the vertecies
@@redotix9952Not quite, itll skip the backface culling check itself, and all the data stays the same. Technically it could be implemented by the driver the way you said it, but its unlikely as that would be unnecessary inefficient
@@celdaemon Oh interesting, I wasnt aware, I thought backface culling was a natural side effect of rendering and turning it off requires more processing, not the other way around.
The reason I didn't do that is because only the top water faces need face culling disabled, so doing that would mean I would need 2 VAOs and 2 render calls, and I figured that a few extra faces would be better. Maybe I'm wrong, though. I would have to test it
It's so fun to watch you make this project, I'm so glad I found out about this! Do you have plans to add any sort of survival mechanics, and if so, when? Very excited to see where this goes!
normal programmers: make a 5 minute video explaning an entire development on their game. wsan evan: explains for 14 minutes how he added water to his mc clone. wsan evan has the best videos on utub.
Bro whatever the hell you’re doing, you’re doing good work. Make sure to pace yourself, too many creators get burned out making quality creations as fast as this.
looking at the water shader, i wonder if its possible to make a shader behave like the water shader in terraria, where it interacts with objects and entities. I think you do that by using a movement buffer but I might be wrong. Anyways, I found this video series recently and I think the way you narrate and show stuff is really cool and comprehensible, at least for me(I have some coding knowledge but I'm not that familiar with the apis you are using). I will watch the other videos and start to follow this project, its very interesting. Keep up the good work :D
The random crashes with the refactored chunk rendering mighttt be an issue with chunk meshes getting copy-constructed and freeing their GPU memory prematurely. I've made that mistake a lot, and I'd recommend always putting logs into custom destructors when you're first testing them.
You should add PBR materials (Sending arrays) of materials to the frag shader like adding every texture needed (diffuse, normal, ao...) for the regular block if not implemented yet
I wish I knew how to code because I've always wanted to do this, it's fun seeing you go through it. I think a nice spin to the minecraft clone idea would be to make the world spherical and not infinite
Learning how to program is pretty approachable, in my opinion! 2 years ago I knew nothing, now I'm a semi-competent hobbyist. Your first language will be hardest. Pick an easy one like python. But after that, things will go way smoother for you, as you will understand the concepts behind things and various data structures and such, and can fairly easily translate that knowledge to any language And don't forget the importance of feedback. Not just AI, but real human feedback on a forum or similar if you're stuck
@nerida3347 I will keep that in mind, thank you! I took a class on c++ data structures so I know the barest minimum of code, but coding an app or a game or anything more advanced than a glorified calculator is still so incredible and unapproachable to me. Where do you suggest I could start?
Bro you are the best u literally making a new better bedrock edition, all of these in your first entry to c++ , if i had money i was going to donate 40 dollars ❤❤❤❤
You should try to add a player movement system so you can actually walk and run around instead of just flying. It would be cool if you could start/stop flying by double-tapping space
I’ve got an idea to make the water look more unique. Remove the texture, have it render as a solid color. The low parts of the waves render darker, and the high parts of the waves render the brightest, giving a fake reflective look. Also, try making the waves more noisy for even cooler looking results.
13:08 i think someone already make water in their minecraft cpp opengl clone they just made one texture altas with multiple water textures switching every half a second
something I've always wanted in Minecraft is different gasses like yeah there is air but what if there was also steam that floated up and then deleted or helium or what if the clouds were made of water or what if you could make uraniumhexafloide gas??
If you make the waves based on a continuous 4d perlin map (3d for waves + time dimension) you might get better waves! annoying part would still be fixing the seams
Would love to see a simple vertex color based AO, should be simple enough to implement. Also having the textures all in one atlas is a bit tedious to work with, what if you instead separate all the textures and generate an atlas on boot?
Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed the video! Quick announcement: When the Discord server gets to 100 members, I'm going to host a mini game jam! The server is so close to 100 already, so if you're interested in the game jam, join the server here: discord.gg/G9zSDfMcZg
would like to see villages to add more life
Add sky to your game
The video was pretty good tbh
Hey may I get your discord I have a few questions I’d really like to ask
WSAL meaning?
Minecraft Bedrock at home:
Awesome video demonstrating the power of C++ :]
I was gonna say something like this but I couldn’t think of a good way to type it so thank you for being better at coming up with thing to say than me ❤
Awsomeway of showing showing off c++? Unreal is written in c++
"It works, but why?" - WSAL, 2024
it's 2024
pretty much every programmer ever, and if i learn java this well be me to lol
IF IT AINT BROKE DONT FIX IT
Every programmer has said this at least once in the last 3 hours.
@@Bigleyp I can confirm I just said that cause of some insanely broken code that still somehow worked lmao
3:36 Ain't the far lands, that's the fart lands 😭
underrated
bro got the whole squad laughing 😒
@@seanernst-c7r i thought it was pretty funny ngl
9:53 shit seas
🍑💨⛰️
5:39 From experience there is two types of crashes:
- Crash that make sense and are actual errors in your program (under some conditions or whatever)
- "Random" crashes generally caused by forgetting about thread sync issues, idk about your project but if you have multiples threads doing different tasks and reading or pushing items inside arrays, make sure you lock your threads using std::lock.
If you find that your game sometimes randomly crashes and you cannot find out what really causing the crash, this is generally a threads sync issue !
Not in C++. C++ doesn't have as much memory safety as a lot of other languages, so you can easily reference nonexistent data, and get random crashes depending on the random data that's in that spot in RAM. This looks more like they screwed up an index somewhere and it accesses stuff it isn't supposed to.
@@nikkiofthevalley I was actually talking about fully random crashes, the one due to thread sync issues happening at random timing (bcs of data read/written at the same time sometimes). The non referenced data can be easily debugged and found, because reading random data will always lead to a crash, so it's not really what I would call a "random" crash.
@@K3rhos Reading random data doesn't necessarily lead to an outright crash. It could load nonsense data out of view, but as soon as it tries modifying it (which would be random because of the feature system being random) it may or may not crash because it could be allocated but not used memory.
I just want to add that more than half of my crashes when working with OpenGL that are really hard to debug are caused by memory access issues such as calling a buffer draw with the wrong length. This is made worse by thread synchronization in terms of updating said meshes.
Honestly I wish we could get videos like this from Mojang for normal Minecraft development
In this case it will be a 5 minutes video per month.
I love watching this series. Getting to see first hand what developers face while creating what seems a simple game is quite entertaining and inspiring. Keep up the hard work! 😁
Thanks!
@@wsalevan bible?
@thefunson8087 What?
@@wsalevan you know. The bible
@@wsalevan do you like the bible?
"why did that fix it" is a mood
This might be my favourite type of devlog. I much prefer when the technical side is explored than when jokes are thrown in every second. Would love to see you work on the visuals in the future (AO, shadows, coloured lighting, direct lighting, global illumination, or anything really)
Execellent series. You are a great developer and great editor. Keep going bro (btw i aint a bot).
"That's all I have for this episode" I swear this ginormous work
Bro I'm so hooked up to this series that i can't resist not subscribing. Well done! Btw i like your new logo
Did I like it?! Dude, I look forward to new videos and news from you!
I love these videos and the progression so far! Please dont give up, a finished version would be sick! Can't wait for other dimensions
I was watching all your Minecraft videos today and suddenly you gift us with another one, thank you
loving the VODs on YT, and this project so far is looking extremely promising
Thanks!
@@wsalevan you're welcome! keep up the work, it's fun to watch how far you've come on C++
Now imagine a opensource c++ fully compatible minecraft client. Supporting the whole minecraft protocol, would be awesome.
That sounds like a recipe for a lawsuit lol
@@wsalevan Yes, I’ve thought that too lol 😂. There’s no crime in dreaming yet 😭 Who knows one day, without the mobile first way of bedrock being
@@wsalevan If it just accesses the API, Oracle vs Google shows that this is perfectly legal!
@@wsalevancreate a product that can be easily modified, create mods for it from different anonymous accounts to make it look like minecraft after installing all mods.
@@wsalevan Actually, "should" be fine if some things are considered. Most importantly, you cant ship minecraft assets in your own program. Aslong as you dont do that you "should" be fine.
Unless factorio and minecraft eula are different in certain ways. There was someone who rewrote the factorio engine, with less features, however much much faster and the devs couldnt have forced them not to release it. He didnt release it after he signed an NDA and got factorio source code access!
The underwater effect... ITS PERFECT!
Dude this is really coming together. This is so cool bro keep it up bro
I'm starting to get pretty invested in this series 😂
You can disable face culling, so it will draw back faces and you wont need double amount of vertices for water. (Dont forget enabling it after)
Also cool video
doesnt disabling backface culling basically just tell the gpu to render the vertices a second time but with flipped normals?
The end result is the same no? Both process double the vertecies
@@redotix9952 no, it disables check if face is facing camera.
@@redotix9952Not quite, itll skip the backface culling check itself, and all the data stays the same.
Technically it could be implemented by the driver the way you said it, but its unlikely as that would be unnecessary inefficient
@@celdaemon Oh interesting, I wasnt aware, I thought backface culling was a natural side effect of rendering and turning it off requires more processing, not the other way around.
The reason I didn't do that is because only the top water faces need face culling disabled, so doing that would mean I would need 2 VAOs and 2 render calls, and I figured that a few extra faces would be better. Maybe I'm wrong, though. I would have to test it
0:24 This is exactly what rice fields look from high ground. I am not kidding.
You created a rice field in minecraft... A NEW BIOME?
first person who's not evan
Do you mean even
No, I think they meant evan
@@nicole8275
@@nicole8275 No, the UA-camr is named Evan
@@EvroTheDevro thanks
how os this before the video upload tho
Amazing Video as always :D
How about working on world weather? Higher up you go, colder it gets. And time of day would be neat. Loving the series so far!
It's so fun to watch you make this project, I'm so glad I found out about this! Do you have plans to add any sort of survival mechanics, and if so, when? Very excited to see where this goes!
NIce stuff. Excited to see what comes next
Thanks!
Wow, really impressed by your videos. I'd love to see some ambient occlusion in the future :D
around half a year ago I went through the same journey and seeing you essentially take the same steps is kinda nostalgic already lmao
Super underrated channel - really entertaining video! Keep it up! 💪🙌
great job and good luck
Thanks!
It's sort of a habit to watch Minecraft being continually recreated, but it's still interesting every time
normal programmers: make a 5 minute video explaning an entire development on their game.
wsan evan: explains for 14 minutes how he added water to his mc clone.
wsan evan has the best videos on utub.
I’m in an entry-level C++ programming course in college, and this video made my nerd brain’s day. Thank you sir
Bro whatever the hell you’re doing, you’re doing good work. Make sure to pace yourself, too many creators get burned out making quality creations as fast as this.
Thanks! So far, this seems to be a pretty good pace for me
5:42 Do you still need debugging Mesh.cpp and it crashing? I don't see it in the Git repo. (or under a branch.)
i dont understand a singular bit about the code but i just like seeing the bug he has to fix and allat, its just fun to watch lol
add jumping & placing & mining & block collision!
Wow a yt programmer that actually uses abstraction :D
Thats a sub from me
Is the RGB -> BRG switch at 12:00 how Dragonball got the design for Planet Namek?
looking at the water shader, i wonder if its possible to make a shader behave like the water shader in terraria, where it interacts with objects and entities. I think you do that by using a movement buffer but I might be wrong.
Anyways, I found this video series recently and I think the way you narrate and show stuff is really cool and comprehensible, at least for me(I have some coding knowledge but I'm not that familiar with the apis you are using).
I will watch the other videos and start to follow this project, its very interesting.
Keep up the good work :D
gotta love a good sine function
I'm mesmerized.
bro made microsoft paint, in minecraft, in C++
Legend
Love the videos!! Keep up the work bro🔥 One question tho, can you stream on YT pls?
The random crashes with the refactored chunk rendering mighttt be an issue with chunk meshes getting copy-constructed and freeing their GPU memory prematurely. I've made that mistake a lot, and I'd recommend always putting logs into custom destructors when you're first testing them.
interesting and fun, love this video
Thanks!
This is great!
microsoft already made minecraft in C++
Yep, people dont know bedrock edition is written in C++, no wonder why his is just as buggy...
@@renren_does_programming go find out what the unedited one said
This one is a minecraft clone
@@Drifys1 but the same company developed it
@@Drifys1 bedrock is not a clone of Java it is a version of Minecraft just like java
8:54 movies when desert
I can' believe someone added C++ to their Water Minecraft Clone
This channel so fun ngl
It reminds me of the funny videos I used to watch.
You should add PBR materials (Sending arrays) of materials to the frag shader like adding every texture needed (diffuse, normal, ao...) for the regular block if not implemented yet
I wish I knew how to code because I've always wanted to do this, it's fun seeing you go through it. I think a nice spin to the minecraft clone idea would be to make the world spherical and not infinite
Learning how to program is pretty approachable, in my opinion! 2 years ago I knew nothing, now I'm a semi-competent hobbyist.
Your first language will be hardest. Pick an easy one like python. But after that, things will go way smoother for you, as you will understand the concepts behind things and various data structures and such, and can fairly easily translate that knowledge to any language
And don't forget the importance of feedback. Not just AI, but real human feedback on a forum or similar if you're stuck
@nerida3347 I will keep that in mind, thank you!
I took a class on c++ data structures so I know the barest minimum of code, but coding an app or a game or anything more advanced than a glorified calculator is still so incredible and unapproachable to me. Where do you suggest I could start?
I didnt understand anything, but its fun to watch
Just got recommended this after watching Phillips dev log on HIS Minecraft clone, lol
Bro you are the best u literally making a new better bedrock edition, all of these in your first entry to c++ , if i had money i was going to donate 40 dollars ❤❤❤❤
fr ur a programming monster :0
If infinite generation is ever added to this pet project, I really hope we'll get to teleport to the farlands.
You should try to add a player movement system so you can actually walk and run around instead of just flying. It would be cool if you could start/stop flying by double-tapping space
I wish Minecraft was an open source community project. Maybe one day.
"I got this wrong, I have no idea how it worked"
Story of my life coding lmao
i cant wait for him to realase this game it looks so good
nice water, gotta love a sine-wiggle
I’ve got an idea to make the water look more unique. Remove the texture, have it render as a solid color. The low parts of the waves render darker, and the high parts of the waves render the brightest, giving a fake reflective look. Also, try making the waves more noisy for even cooler looking results.
Alternatively, add a specular shader to the water.
13:08 i think someone already make water in their minecraft cpp opengl clone
they just made one texture altas with multiple water textures switching every half a second
I love your Minecraft
something I've always wanted in Minecraft is different gasses like yeah there is air but what if there was also steam that floated up and then deleted or helium or what if the clouds were made of water or what if you could make uraniumhexafloide gas??
Awesome now make the water flow
i read the title as "I added C++ to my Water Minecraft Clone" at first and I was SO confused
crazy vid
If you make the waves based on a continuous 4d perlin map (3d for waves + time dimension) you might get better waves! annoying part would still be fixing the seams
The random way in which water faces failed to appear seemed very much like memory corruption; junk data was being used somewhere.
I feel like finally being able to walk around would be cool, it's a bit of a jump though (no pun intended)
Would love to see a simple vertex color based AO, should be simple enough to implement.
Also having the textures all in one atlas is a bit tedious to work with, what if you instead separate all the textures and generate an atlas on boot?
at 12:39
if you made it faster you could use it as nausea if you ever get that far
It would make perfect sense for sea level to be Y=0. Then underground would usually be negative and above ground would be positive.
minecraft in C# is so good.
11:45 good idea for extra settings
cool project !
You can add soft lighting and make the grass texture more like the newer versions of Minecraft. 👍
hey wsal, you can rename jar files into zip files to extract the modern textures for the game
The lighting is so cursed lmao
1:40 I catch myself too often doing "for (var i=0; …" instead of "for (int i=0; …" XD
wake up funny coder man is back
This is the kind of video you watch while eating 💯👍
You should make blocks check if they are under water and if they are look like either sand or gravel.
Bro created the stripe lands! 9:48
love ur videos! cant wait when will be new video :D
When you feel satisfied with the engine, please try to create more games on it. 😭🙏
Very cool
as someone who has never seen any piece of c++ code in my life... neat
Are you gonna add post processing? e.g. Ambient occlusion
Maybe add Day and night Cycle next, keep up great work!
how you learn opengl for c++? course? or youtube?
You should try adding mountains to the world with changing weather!
very cool
awesome i tried it out but is there any code that adds a player because i keep getting a player just like if someone else is in it !!
yo before adding more stuff i think adding sky to your game would be so cool including some clouds too
next video you should add se- I mean Physics (Collisions and Gravity)
Maybe you could add more blocks like sand and gravel for under the water? (It also makes you think about the pain of adding biomes)