670K views · Oct 6, 2016 · 7:42 · 2 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2016–2025
Jeija demonstrates a modified Minetest game with a spherical planet, using a grid transform to make a voxel world round. It includes the orbit math and download links for the spheretest build.
Why Hacker News points people here: Pointed to in Minetest and spherical-voxel-world threads as a striking example of what the open-source engine can do.
“A minetest developer just recently published a sphere-shaped planet version of minetest”HN comment, 2016
“People have made some VERY COOL stuff using MineTest.”
Spherical world built in Minetest
Man, just a few days ago I was bummed that the top comment on most HN stories is critical or dismissive, and now I'm part of the problem. -- People have made some VERY COOL stuff using MineTest. Check out spheretest: this video
“This reminded me of another attempt, but in Minetest”
Attempt at a spherical voxel world in Minetest
This reminded me of another attempt, but in Minetest: - this video This person has another, more technical video where they talk about the math behind it btw
“A minetest developer just recently published a sphere-shaped planet version of minetest”
Sphere-shaped planet version of Minetest
A minetest developer just recently published a sphere-shaped planet version of minetest: link this video link That's just the thing I love about these smaller voxel games - they may not have a huge userbase, but there is innovation happening.
“Minetest had a mod to fake spherical planets using a torus.”
Mod faking spherical planets using a torus
Minetest had a mod to fake spherical planets using a torus. Main video: this video More in depth: link The main problem with minetest it is that it seems not complete/done on the art assets and main game, and the devs always say that is intentionally not a Minecraft clone yet people come searching one on the subgames.
