// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause // Copyright (c) 2025 Kirill Dmitrievich // File: chunk_visibility.cc // Description: Discard chunks out of view #include "client/pch.hh" #include "client/world/chunk_visibility.hh" #include "core/config/number.hh" #include "core/math/vectors.hh" #include "shared/world/chunk.hh" #include "shared/world/chunk_aabb.hh" #include "shared/world/dimension.hh" #include "shared/protocol.hh" #include "client/entity/camera.hh" #include "client/globals.hh" #include "client/session.hh" // Sending a somewhat large amount of network packets // can easily overwhelm both client, server and the network // channel created between the two. To prevent this from happening // we throttle the client's ever increasing itch for new chunks constexpr static unsigned int MAX_CHUNKS_REQUESTS_PER_FRAME = 16U; static ChunkAABB current_view_box; static ChunkAABB previous_view_box; static std::vector requests; static void update_requests(void) { requests.clear(); for(auto cx = current_view_box.min.x; cx != current_view_box.max.x; cx += 1) for(auto cy = current_view_box.min.y; cy != current_view_box.max.y; cy += 1) for(auto cz = current_view_box.min.z; cz != current_view_box.max.z; cz += 1) { auto cpos = chunk_pos(cx, cy, cz); if(!globals::dimension->find_chunk(cpos)) { requests.push_back(cpos); } } std::sort(requests.begin(), requests.end(), [](const chunk_pos& cpos_a, const chunk_pos& cpos_b) { auto da = math::distance2(cpos_a, camera::position_chunk); auto db = math::distance2(cpos_b, camera::position_chunk); return da > db; }); } void chunk_visibility::update_late(void) { current_view_box.min = camera::position_chunk - static_cast(camera::view_distance.get_value()); current_view_box.max = camera::position_chunk + static_cast(camera::view_distance.get_value()); if(!session::is_ingame()) { // This makes sure the previous view box // is always different from the current one previous_view_box.min = chunk_pos(INT32_MIN, INT32_MIN, INT32_MIN); previous_view_box.max = chunk_pos(INT32_MAX, INT32_MAX, INT32_MAX); return; } if((current_view_box.min != previous_view_box.min) || (current_view_box.max != previous_view_box.max)) { update_requests(); } for(unsigned int i = 0U; i < MAX_CHUNKS_REQUESTS_PER_FRAME; ++i) { if(requests.empty()) { // Done sending requests break; } protocol::RequestChunk packet; packet.cpos = requests.back(); protocol::send(session::peer, protocol::encode(packet)); requests.pop_back(); } auto view = globals::dimension->chunks.view(); for(const auto [entity, chunk] : view.each()) { if(!current_view_box.contains(chunk.cpos)) { globals::dimension->remove_chunk(entity); } } previous_view_box = current_view_box; }