I’m making an attempt to wrap my head round making use of voxel daylight propagation to a map with infinite top. My preliminary Idea was to have a height-map representing the very best block on the map, That means, I needn’t load any chunks to examine for daylight with generated terrain. But there are some points. Like updating terrain’s daylight via unloaded chunks:

. – Air, % – Not generated chunks # – Generated Terrain, 1 – Player One, 2 – Player Two

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If Player One is digging a gap via a ground hundreds of blocks up from Player Two, Then there will be inconsistencies.

How ought to I’m going about this?

I’m not asking for code. I simply need to know the way to do that correctly.

Here is how the sunshine part of the server works:

Is the terrain modified? If so, Than run the daylight algorithim.

Sunlight algorithim:
  Is topmost loaded chunk occluded? If so, Than do not gentle the block.
  

  Otherwise, Light the block.