Volume of a Block

[Caffeinated Pinkie]

I'm wondering what the most efficient way to calculate the volume of a block is. That is, if I have a BlockState in a World at a BlockPos, how can I most easily or efficiently calculate the volume? Do I have to just take the integral of the cross-sections of the VoxelShape? If that is the case, how do I get the cross-sections?

[Draco18s]

You'd have to use the VoxelShape, yes.

As for how, you're going to have to compute it manually.

[Caffeinated Pinkie]

  On 7/19/2020 at 12:27 AM, Draco18s said:

You'd have to use the VoxelShape, yes.

As for how, you're going to have to compute it manually.

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Well, is there a way to get the cross-sections of the VoxelShape? Or, at the very least, some documentation on how VoxelShapes work?

 

[Draco18s]

  On 7/19/2020 at 12:43 AM, Caffeinated Pinkie said:

Well, is there a way to get the cross-sections of the VoxelShape?

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As I said, you're going to have to compute it yourself.

 

  On 7/19/2020 at 12:43 AM, Caffeinated Pinkie said:

Or, at the very least, some documentation on how VoxelShapes work?

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No. You're going to need to read the code.

But as far as I understand it, its just a bunch of axis aligned cuboids.