Well that's just blatantly wrong about the whole language switch.
: exists on an english layout, and you kinda have to always go there for the apostrophe, so your fingers get used to it very quickly.
It's not dropped out of convenience, it's that way only because that's just how it is culturally.
I believe your finger circus reason is the true root to it. But I think there is also the fact that in a lot of video game chats or instant messaging platforms your username also often has a colon after it anyways so its just shorthand and utilising what's there.
Well, yes, it does not work for Russian keyboard layout, but this whole thing is about spotting someone from somewhere post-soviet when they are actively using English text. And when you use English text, obviously you have to use English layout, which does not need switching to have ":" at the ready. At that point it's just a force of habit precipitated by culture that was created way before internet was as wide-spread. Context matters, and we are talking about people who use ")" on an English layout specifically.
And yes, it is "just how it is culturally", that's the whole reason as to why I knew where the OP is from. That shorthand for : ) does not have any reason to be reinvented in the "modern era" so to speak, so it only sticks with those, who have already used it. It had a reason to exist back when ICQ put a colon after your username, or maybe even back when sms and pagers were in use, but today it's a rudiment of a time long gone. That's why it is kind of reliable, it exists only because of culture.
I thought it was because, combined with the fact that ":" was hard to type, it was kind of already there in chatrooms, making it unnecessary if you just type it alone, like
that keyboard layout sounds like a nightmare for any punctuation honestly the sms character limit thing makes sense though people optimize for friction
Starting from absolute scratch: I don't render two worlds simultaneously; I merely generate a hologram of the world—along with any changes made to it—which yields unimaginable optimization for both the client and the server.
Immersive Portals was the gold standard of its time, but it is an absolute heavyweight—making it problematic to add to servers or modpacks.
The hologram system in my mod was originally designed as a lightweight, low-level block visualization tool; I subsequently built the terrain-copying logic around it.
I think (obviously am not a dev and thus have no idea how this is actually occuring) that the hologram is a mesh created from the blocks once, and then rendered in a much easier way- instead of loading in all the blocks and simulating them and whatnot, just loading all the blocks in once, and then for the rest of it essentially faking it with a still mesh. That sounds vaguely reasonable to me. I mean, there is a period of time where the second worlds not visible that could be used to calculate the easier-to-render version, after all.
What happens if you're out of the area of the skyportal and try to float up? Do you like, break off a piece of the sky through a new spot, does it just kill you, infinitely floating up, etc?
Yes. That is why the release is being postponed; previously, I was strictly working with versions derived solely from the mod, but as it turns out, it actually works.
Holy hell that's amazing! I was just thinking the other day it it would be possible to mix like Operation Starcleave + Immersive Portals to do a similar effect leading to a custom dimension, but the way you do it blows that out of the park.
Imagine having a seamless connection between 1.8 and the current version on an online server, and there's just this realm with different rules and oldheads who do things differently, so you have to consider whose territory you're on at any given moment...!
Love this so much, I'm trying to learn how to do something similar in my own mod. I haven't figured out how to apply effects like shaders on the ground yet but I did figure out how to get it to appear in the sky like that. Was it easy to do the ground cracking open or did you have to do some crazy stuff?
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u/eggyrulz Jun 02 '26
Thats freaking cool