Topic: terrain generation

Crafting a Spherical Minecraft World: A How-To Guide

Blocky Planet is a tech demo I created in the Unity game engine that attempts to map Minecraft’s cubic voxels onto a spherical planet. And just for fun — let’s look at a small blocky planet before and after applying any spherical projection. Cube net representing the way sector faces are joined in Blocky Planet (think of this as an unrolled cube). That concludes the discussion of the more structural aspects of making a spherical blocky planet. But as we’ve seen many times now, nothing is ever ea...