I guess I need to write some kind of algorithm to 'expand' colours.

For example:

For any block, if there's no block around it with the same material being used, change the texture to the most common material of each of its neighbours.

I need to make sure I can smooth them out using tricks like that

Doesn't work. How dare you not support my 7 year old laptop? :C

Have you timed which parts are especially slow?

(and do you know about console.time() and console.timeEnd() for sub-millisecond timing accuracy?)

Yeah I've used it a bit - I'll do some proper profiling soon.

I've made a few tweaks to the colour matching. The results are far better, but I've had to sacrifice a little bit of speed.

It's certainly looking better. I could still do with a bit more smoothing on the colours, but far better than it was before...

You might be able to judge colour matching better if you toned that background down a bit. To medium grey, for instance.

Hmm - 45 seconds to make that, on my laptop.

This model is 180 blocks high, though, which is far bigger than you'd normally build in minecraft.

15 seconds to produce this:

Good point! :)

Awesome!! This came out much better than I was expecting...

Something like that would be absolutely gigantic in Minecraft :S

Haha yeah :)

You could set up a base inside it!

http://www.mikeefranklin.co.uk/3d/harpoon.html

Mind you - with the half-blocks you can get in tekkit/red power, you could have it at the same quality but far smaller

Made some pretty huge changes to the way it works..


http://www.mikeefranklin.co.uk/3d/bishop.html

It should now be REALLY fast in comparison - about 10 seconds

Edit: It seems to depend on how much memory you have available. On lower specs it seems to stop at ~80% and start crawling. If you have enough memory it does it all verrry fast.

http://www.mikeefranklin.co.uk/3d/goblin.html

:D


Gotta find some new models now..

I realised that my thing only works with a single texture at the moment, too. I need to change it to support multiple textures.. :)

Now improved so it still works if you have multiple textures on a model...

http://www.mikeefranklin.co.uk/3d/dragon.html

(the Dungeon Defenders ancient dragon has a texture on his head and a texture on his body)

Works like a charm here now.

I've made a new technique..

Once the texture is loaded in, I run blurring on it before doing anything else.

The result is far far superior..

The only issue left to deal with is that at higher resolutions chrome runs out of memory and the whole thing slows down considerably. I don't think there's any real fix to this - v8 engine has a memory limit built in.

http://www.mikeefranklin.co.uk/3d/dragon.html

(may pause loading half way through on lower spec machines)

Get a proper browser ;)

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