A Minecraft-like Block Based Game Engine Using Three.js, WebGL and Node

Post by buster » Fri, Jan 18, 2013, 7:03 PM UTC

manveru wrote: post #20

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Nobody draws voxels, graphics cards aren't good at them. I don't know about these engines in particular, but in minecraft everything is converted to polygon meshes.

Nobody these days, but one of my all-time favorite games is Outcast[1], which used voxels for the terrain and polygons for smaller details. All it needed was a good CPU. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_%28video_game%29

Post by dirkk0 » Fri, Jan 18, 2013, 7:25 PM UTC

alxndr wrote: post #8

modeless wrote: post #5

A friend of mine made something similar, plus multiplayer support (and minus gravity): http://benvanik.github.com/blk-game/

Wow.

Post by dirkk0 » Fri, Jan 18, 2013, 7:53 PM UTC

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are there any public servers that we could connect to?

just mine: ws://107.21.150.140:1338

Post by dirkk0 » Fri, Jan 18, 2013, 8:49 PM UTC

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just mine: ws://107.21.150.140:1338

this is incredible: I created the server and seconds ago, people were already building. The power of Minecraft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIwUoT4hOcs

Post by maxogden » Fri, Jan 18, 2013, 9:14 PM UTC

jiggy2011 wrote: post #7

I'm always curious how much optimisation is required for these big voxel engines. I assume since all voxels are the same size you can just batch draw them but even so there is going to be a lot within viewing distance that may be invisible. Are they all just assigned to an octtree and then culled against the view frustum or do you really need some clever occlusion culling?