Systems

How each part of Goanna works today, one subsystem a page. Each page says what is not done yet. Plans live under design and dated records under history; where a page and the code disagree, the code is right.

Terrain

• Far rendering: how terrain beyond the server's live range is stored, summarised, reduced and drawn.
• Prepared terrain storage: the on disk LOD cache and its background loader.
• Terrain surfaces: how coarse terrain is shaped and how detail is chosen.
• Baked terrain and forest previews: distant land and trees straight from a Terrain Diffusion bake.
• Mesh attributes: the vertex data every terrain mesh carries, near and far.
• Animated node tiles: how animated textures advance.

Materials and surfaces

• Materials: the LabPBR maps Goanna reads, which shader draws a tile, gems, mob and item companions and texture expressions.
• Lava, fire, ice and portals: the special materials.
• Water optics: water seen from above and below.
• Procedural grass: the optional grass volume.

Light, sky and weather

• Sky orchestration: keeping sky, fog, clouds and sun consistent through dawn and dusk.
• Shader weather: rain, snow, splashes, ripples and lightning drawn by shader.
• Particle coverage: what a particle spawner can ask for and what Goanna draws.

Graphics settings

• Graphics tiers: the five presets and what each one sets.
• Render feature switches: the twenty switches that turn a rendering feature's work off.

Players and interface

• First person body and knees, elbows and strokes: the player's own model and how block limbed models bend and swim.
• Interface style: the dark glass style and game theme for menus and server forms.
• Local multiplayer architecture: splitscreen ownership, input and rendering.
• Overseer camera: the orthographic planning view DorfCraft grants.

Protocol

• Protocol coverage: what the session handles from a server and how GDScript reads it.