How to use MutableBlockVolume?

Yeregorix · January 23, 2016, 1:58pm

Hi ! I want to generate asynchronously a custom structure in sort of array of blocks and then merge in the world once the work is done. With Bukkit, I was using my own class, but with Sponge, I saw there is a MutableBlockVolume class, it seems to be the class I need.
I want to know, how to create a new empty MutableBlockVolume, edit blocks (async) and then merge with a world.
I hope I was clear, english isn’t my native language.
Can someone help me ?

ryantheleach · January 23, 2016, 2:03pm

Sponge.getRegistry.getExtentBufferFactory.createBlockBuffer(5,5,5) Should do the trick.

DDoS · January 23, 2016, 3:34pm

There isn’t any proper async support yet, but it’s planned.

Yeregorix · January 23, 2016, 4:05pm

Thank !
If I only use one thread to edit the volume, it should work ?

DDoS · January 23, 2016, 6:05pm

Yeah. You should also look at getBlockWorker(), you can probably implement some of your operations using the methods provided by that class. This will also make converting back to multithreading simpler once I add support for multithreaded block workers (as long as you don’t really on state).