I started to work on Beautymine again by implementing a fully working NBT (Named Binary Tag) reader.

Sample dumps:

Map conversion is now fully finished and I am able to load draw Minecraft chunks. Though the term “Bautymine” is pretty much exaggerated at this point, the terrain is very ugly.

Nothing special, just the map converter written in C#. This map converter will read a world file and only extract and decompress the data I need into a single file.

Added a Camera, proper Timing and FPS counter. FPS look promising. 15625 objects in scene.

V1 has not even been released and was scrapped. This was the latest progress:

XNA/C# running quite smoothly but for some optimizations I am in need of DX10 so I moved to C++ and can proudly present an immense improvement:

My “secret” project I am working on 😛 More details at a later time.