Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded • Hacker News Board

Re: Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded

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Post by gavanwoolery » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:06 PM UTC

Udo wrote: post #6

This is so exciting, I wish you all the best. And kudos for live streaming your development progress!

Thanks! :)

Re: Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded

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Post by _almosnow » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:06 PM UTC

_almosnow wrote: post #9

gavanwoolery wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

roughly one billion voxels per second on a single GTX 780 (seems crazy, but that is the count, you can see in some screenshots its usually generating around 10s to hundreds of billions of voxels within the first minutes of running) - [EDIT] also I should note that in many cases it super samples voxels up to 4 times or more, or 64 base voxels per result voxel (4x4x4). These voxels are stored in 2D projections of the c…

Truly impressive! What language are you using to code everything? C/C++? And for rendering? OpenGL or bare metal?

Thanks man. Respect :D

Re: Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded

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Post by tylermac1 » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:16 PM UTC

Congrats! Keep up the great work.

Re: Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded

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Post by gavanwoolery » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:19 PM UTC

tylermac1 wrote: post #13

Congrats! Keep up the great work.

Thank you :)

Re: Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded

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Post by btreecat » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:30 PM UTC

Glad to see you made your goal! Really impressive what you cant do with your engine and your RPG sounds fun as well. I went ahead and backed you hoping that you do indeed port to Linux =D

Re: Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded

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Post by petercooper » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:46 PM UTC

You might even have many fans left to reach yet. I've been interested in your progress every time it's come up but I didn't know there was a Kickstarter going till just now :-)

Re: Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded

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Post by muyuu » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:48 PM UTC

Great stuff.

Congratulations, Gavan. Very promising projects are failing to get funded now, it got really hard for games in KS.

Re: Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded

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Post by jarin » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:53 PM UTC

I'm not even sure anyone noticed this over the gorgeous visuals, but I think your decision to make it fully moddable—and even license out the engine ala Source—is what will make this thing a work of genius.

Re: Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded

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Post by gavanwoolery » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:53 PM UTC

jarin wrote: post #18

I'm not even sure anyone noticed this over the gorgeous visuals, but I think your decision to make it fully moddable—and even license out the engine ala Source—is what will make this thing a work of genius.

I think so to. I can create very little as one man, but I think I can provide a good foundation for others to work off of.

Re: Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded

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Post by zubspace » Fri, Nov 07, 2014, 3:59 PM UTC

Good luck! with your project!

I once worked on and off on a 3D engine in C++ for about 8 years and know how much effort and perseverance it takes. I was young and somehow lost track while hacking in memory pools, shader generators and a custom scripting language... Don't fall into this trap! Keep it simple, don't NIH too much and focus on gameplay!

One question I have: How do you generate those wonderful, non-repeating dirt textures displayed in one of your videos? Is it a procedural texture or is it based on marching cubes or...? They really look amazing!