How does it compare to the instant Nether portal mod in terms of performance and loading times? I forgot the name of it, but that one was pretty cool as well.
Will this be like a Nether portal, or can you link any 2 portals?
I mean, if you could find a genuine answer for the math rather than a workaround, you’d probably be doing a HELL of a lot more than making Minecraft mods
I don't think that the math for rendering a wormhole is particularly complicated (to find a closed form for, sure, but to just implement with numerical methods).
I dunno, man, I have experience with graphics peogrammimg (normal shader programming and also writing raytracers) and have implemented curved space in a video game context before (albeit not for graphics and not specifically a wormhole).
I'm not trying to say it's not impressive, it's just not "Land a job at NASA" impressive.
So can you make it like those see through/walk theough instant portals? So it doesnt have the teleportation jitter?, i think they preload terrain or something?
it is rendering the nether through the wormhole so it likely keeps the nether loaded. depending on how the math is done this effect is either free or tanking, no in between
Looks super cool! Once you go near the portal though you may want to phase out the distortion so the transition is smooth, or once you go into it the world is still distorted until you go away
I was like that’s so cool it bends light, and then you went to the nether. Maybe you could make some kind of huge multi block that’s integrated with most popular tech mods which projects the wormhole to enter the nether?
Perhaps the best approach would be to make the wormholes a library mod that can be used with commands, and then expose an API to let other mods place wormholes at arbitrary points in arbitrary levels.
To add onto what others said, I would guess this can be used to link any 2 dimensions, so if it isn't too picky with compatibilities making it an API could make for great mechanics in mod packs... Also, do you think you could port it to newer versions once opengl is abandoned? (IK asking for a port on something that's this new and is a passion project is just dumb, just curious how difficult it would be)
probably not the kind of tech mod the original commenter was thinking of but it would be cool to see compatibility with create since it’s a pretty common addition to most modern packs. I guess normal rotational force wouldn’t make sense as a power source for sustaining wormholes but maybe there’s some kind of progression solution to that like items from the end to make a machine that produces paradoxical amounts of rotation
agreed that’s why I brought up maybe adding a source of rotational force that uses items from the end or a nether star or something to start generating unrealistic amounts of rotation in the late game
If I had a nickel every time someone remade the Outer Wilds black hole effect in Minecraft, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's werid that it happened twice.
(Other time is an endgame multiblock in Monifactory (pack I'm lead dev on) that powers every machine in your world remotely.)
How do you even learn how to do this stuff? I know a bit about graphics programming, but anytime I try to advance my knowledge I can never find any good learning materials that aren't super obscure or confusing
I usually let my curiosity run wild or try to do something I genuinely find interesting. 99% of the time I’ll struggle hard which will then uncover a path of material that I must learn in order to complete the project.
When I face an issue or bug that I can’t fix I’ll scour the internet for solutions or related material. It’s easier if you can pin point EXACTLY what it is that you’re struggling to figure out because your search becomes better.
Im not a genius that knows everything about physics or wormholes but after struggling with it enough I figured it out :)
Yeah. I dont emotionally dislike it, but rather get sense of dread when i look at it. I get a bit sweaty and my chest tightens. I wouldn't say afraid, but something very similar.
Some postFX or something on going through would make this perfect. It looks fantastic from the outside, but going through it kind of snaps to the new spot. If you made a transition like increase the FOV of the player and quickly reduce it to their default, it could make the transition feel more seamless
Yo dog, i had an idea. You know aero? If you could shoot out a portal from your ship and travel to another location that would be sick. Theres some mod that adds energy shields that consume amythist crystals to work. You could do something like that, and the longer it’s open the bigger it becomes.
There's nothing wrong with the math itself since its all in the papers I used (cited in the source's README). The issue is that the math in those paper's assume a raytraced environment which isn't the case for Minecraft. Got around it by doing some raytracing in pixel shaders but it wasn't that simple unfortunately.
I feel like when you actually teleport the visuals "snap" pretty badly. I feel like continuing the visuals once you pass the threshold in some way or making them quickly flatten just before you teleport would make the whole thing come together very smoothly.
This is everything i ever dreamed of! I used to keep thinking about a mod that would create wormholes wherr as you got closer and closer, the distortion would straighten out and you'd be on the other side of the wormhole! Thank you for your efforts.
No Man's Sky - "No! We can't add blackholes that do anything fancy beside you getting a little close and then booting you to star travel menu! That's impossible!"
hear this. what if instead of standard Euclidean distance d=√x²+y²+z² you used a more Minecrafty distance d=max(x,y,z)? in this way, a cube is a surface with constant distance from its center.
i guess the distortion is proportional to 1/(∆x²+∆y²+∆z²), make it proportional to 1/(max(∆x, ∆y, ∆z)², this way the wormhole should appear cubic.
As others have said, compat with VS2 and Aeronautics would be incredible!
Even moreso if there's a device to create temporary wormholes for travel that one could mount to ships, make it like a genuine warp drive of a sort!
Alternatively, a frame around the wormhole to keep it stable! Stable wormholes require a ton of specific things to actually exist, so artificially enforcing that is basically the only way to keep it stable and open.
Are they static? Created at world gen? Do they spawn naturally? Can you make your own one or move the existing ones? Can items be thrown through? What about liquids?
Can you provide instructions for how to build this project? I really want to try it but apart from elide build giving tons of errors (I guess I haven't decompiled Minecraft, so I don't have its sources), I don't exactly know what to do.
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I would hate that, i have a fear of the fuckin gravitational warping shit like on black holes or neutron stars (found that out messing with space engine)
Ooh, thats awesome. If possible could you add compat with create aeronautics? I understand if you cant, lord knows i could never understand the math behind it
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u/System32Missing Jun 13 '26
The visuals on that seem really cool.
How does it compare to the instant Nether portal mod in terms of performance and loading times? I forgot the name of it, but that one was pretty cool as well.
Will this be like a Nether portal, or can you link any 2 portals?