Chunk position algorithm

Questions & Answers
1

Hello, I’m making a Minecraft clone but I’m a bit stuck right now.

So first this is what I want to do:

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My chunks are 16x16x16 big and I have 10x10x10 loaded chunks.
Because I don’t want to instantiate a new Chunk every time, I thought I could “recycle” the old ones.

So when a Chunk gets out of the view range, it is clear that on the other side is missing one.
But I can’t seem to find a solution of how to compute the new position. Especially when the player walks diagonal.

Right now I’m storing all 10x10x10 Chunks in a static list.

Maybe even that’s not the best solution.

Please let me hear what you think.

2

Do you actually need to move or instantiate any chunks? I think it’s perfectly fine to have all chunks in any position in thegame world, like 0,0,0, and have the 10³ chunks instantiated at game start. After that, it’s just a manner of changing a chunk’s vertex positions instead of the chunk itself.