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MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer

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Re: MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer

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Post by fsloth »

pawelmurias wrote: post #26
fsloth wrote: post #20

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Strongly disagree. GitHub is among other things a platform for sharing. Sharing should not be obligatory. When someone shares something, if you like it, be grateful, and if you don't, just move along. If you want to know how it's done just go and read some open source voxel library - there are ton's of them. If you are interested on the path rendering part there's lots of awesome didactic resources for that as well.…

It'snot obligatory but it's still disappointing.

Why is it disappointing? Sorry, I really don't understand and would like to.

Re: MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer

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Post by Jyaif »

Flenser wrote: post #27
emmanueloga_ wrote: post #12

Few Questions: * Who's https://twitter.com/ephtracy ? Why did you create this? How are you using it this days? Are you making any games with this? * How do you produce images like this? [1] Is the Ray Tracer to do that built in or do you have to import the models in a second software? * What kind of support is there for the vox file format? (where/how to render outside the app). 1: http://ephtracy.github.io/image/sna…

> Who's https://twitter.com/ephtracy ? Unknown, they appear to like their privacy. > Why did you create this? How are you using it this days? > Are you making any games with this? "the project is also used as my personal research platform, so it contains codes for unpublished features and from other private projects." [0] > Is the Ray Tracer to do that built in or do you have to import the models in a second software…

Closed source + anonymous source = recipe for malware. I recommend running this in a sandbox of some kind.

Re: MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer

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Post by TeMPOraL »

OskarS wrote: post #30
TeMPOraL wrote: post #21

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> You might as well complain that "modernism" isn't modern anymore or that "gothic" novels aren't from the same time period of gothic architecture... or that roman typefaces come from places other than Rome, or that italic typefaces aren't all from Italy. I learned not to in front of people, but honestly, this is a problem - a problem of people introducing bad names, and then no one correcting them even decades later…

It’s not actually a problem. It’s fine. We all understand each other.

It's more and more cases of terms where the meaning in use is different from the literal one. I.e. more exceptions to remember. More unnecessary cognitive load.

Re: MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer

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Post by retSava »

matt2000 wrote: post #10

I highly recommend people check this out if you're interested in voxel graphics, or a simple way to make 3D graphics if you're artistically challenged like me. We used it to make a whole game and it was great: https://www.larvalabs.com/project/roadtrip Here are some other awesome things made with it: https://twitter.com/HuntingFluff/status/1046417418459975681 https://twitter.com/Sir_carma/status/1051867299303440384 A…

looks like a crossover of Frogger and Outrun! Looks fun!

Re: MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer

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Post by jb1991 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #33
OskarS wrote: post #30

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It’s not actually a problem. It’s fine. We all understand each other.

It's more and more cases of terms where the meaning in use is different from the literal one. I.e. more exceptions to remember. More unnecessary cognitive load.

The majority of phrases and words in any language have a modern meaning that does not resemble their literal origins. That’s how language works.

Re: MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer

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Post by dmos62 »

matt2000 wrote: post #10

I highly recommend people check this out if you're interested in voxel graphics, or a simple way to make 3D graphics if you're artistically challenged like me. We used it to make a whole game and it was great: https://www.larvalabs.com/project/roadtrip Here are some other awesome things made with it: https://twitter.com/HuntingFluff/status/1046417418459975681 https://twitter.com/Sir_carma/status/1051867299303440384 A…

I followed some links in your links and ended up here: https://www.patreon.com/ondrejsvadlena

It's a crowdfunded game. Here's a walkthrough [0]. It's absolutely amazing. Watching it, I was on the edge of my seat for 20 minutes. The walkthrough's gameplay is a nightime rally chase in the country. The driver is good, by the way. To those who won't watch it through and through, at the very end, he goes to the hydroplant and turns on the roadside lights. The visuals are like nothing I've seen.

I'm not an easily excitable person, and I don't usually throw hyporboles around, but, in my eyes, this is something very unique.

[0] https://youtu.be/Gb4qVZW69lM

Re: MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer

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Post by PavlovsCat »

gbear605 wrote: post #8
rpdillon wrote: post #7

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The tag line is on the site says: > A free lightweight 8-bit voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer. Is the sentence in some way more clear with the modifier '8-bit'? What's being clarified?

That people are looking for “8-bit.” For instance, someone might google “8 bit editor.”

Someone might also google "audio editor", so why not also call it an audio editor to be on the safe side?

Re: MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer

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Post by pawelmurias »

fsloth wrote: post #31
pawelmurias wrote: post #26

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It'snot obligatory but it's still disappointing.

Why is it disappointing? Sorry, I really don't understand and would like to.

Finding that it's not open source when you expect it to be (almost everything on github is open source). If you find something is worse then you expect it to be you get disappointed.

Re: MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer

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Post by VikingCoder »

fsloth wrote: post #31
pawelmurias wrote: post #26

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It'snot obligatory but it's still disappointing.

Why is it disappointing? Sorry, I really don't understand and would like to.

"disappointing: failing to fulfill someone's hopes or expectations."

I think you're viewing it from the "expectations" side, while binarycrusader, pawelmurias, and I are viewing it from the "hope" side.

If this were open source under a license that makes sense to us, I think all three of us were thinking we'd like to use the code to do other things. That's just a hope.

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