How can i fire this function recursively without the c stack overflow

[Mati14677 (Mafnor)]

I have a block generation system which has caves in it.
The problem is when the caves get big enough a c stack overflow appears.

I have two functions:

function module.UncoverBlocks(target,CaveInfo)
   for x = -1,1 do
			module.GenerateOre(x,0,0,target, CaveInfo)

		end
		for y = -1,1 do
			module.GenerateOre(0,y,0,target, CaveInfo)

		end
		for z = -1,1 do
			module.GenerateOre(0,0,z,target, CaveInfo)

		end
end

function module.GenerateOre(x,y,z,target, CaveInfo)
    If Noise > Thrash then 
       module.UncoverBlocks(OreCFrame, CaveInfo)
    end
end

How can i fire these functions recursively without the c stack overflow appearing

[quakage]

Have you looked into Berezaa’s infinite mining game kit? If you haven’t you might give that a look as you can examine the code and get some ideas. He modeled the code after Azure Mines I believe.

[Mati14677 (Mafnor)]

Berezaa also uses a recursive function to do this. But his caves are way smaller.

[Mati14677 (Mafnor)]

I fixed this problem by making a new thread every time the function reaches a certain amount of uses.

[quakage]

Wow you must have some massive caves then. I played with that mining kit and the cave I get to going down through the player area has just a massive cave to the point it was taking like 30 seconds to build it causing me to rewrite it all to make it happen realtime.

[Mati14677 (Mafnor)]

Yeah my caves are pretty big for better player experience lol

These generate in max 3 seconds.