box/box intersection test

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@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 block placement/removal timers
 
-       currently block placement and removal is instantaneous. it should
-       actually take some time to place and remove a block. with
-       removal timing depending on the tool used to remove the block
+       removal timing depending on the tool/block combination
+       animation for remove
 
 composite entity animations
 
@@ -40,14 +39,22 @@ entity ai
 
 (block) lighting
 
-       lighting via light emitting blocks and brightness from the
-       manhattan distance to a light source. light levels should be
-       cached with each block and only recalculated on update
+       occlusion/neighbor light mixing is implemented, but still linear
+       this could be solved by using a pre-interpolated light texture and
+       mapping light levels to coordinates on that
+
+       also: how could block light affect entity lighting?
+       maybe get the interpolated light level at the entity's center and use
+       that as the light power for the directional lighting shader and use a
+       direction that's fixed relative to the camera?
 
 gravity
 
        maybe like light levels? should also store a direction with it in
        that case. also, global gravity may be a world option.
+       no, per-block gravity vector is most probably too expensive.
+       better have the chunks store a few point masses (maybe blocks that
+       emit gravitation?) and calculate from that
 
 block attributes
 
@@ -57,10 +64,11 @@ block attributes
 
 chunk traversal
 
-       going from one chunk to the neighboring is highly wasteful as of
-       now. each chunk should have links to its neighbours. also, maybe
-       the chunk loader should keep an index of interesting, if not all
-       chunks by position, possibly base-relative
+       maybe the chunk loader should keep an index of interesting, if not
+       all chunks by position, possibly base-relative
+
+       profiling indicates that this is not neccessary atm. maybe it will
+       when there's some more action in the world
 
 transparency (blocks and entities)
 
@@ -70,3 +78,13 @@ world generator that is not boring
 
        maybe divide into biomes and add special features like
        settlements, ruins, all kinds of interesting stuff
+
+entity/world collision
+
+       entities should be stopped from entering solid parts of the world
+
+       also, current ray/obb intersection test sucks
+
+better noise
+
+       current simplex noise implementation repeats itself pretty quickly