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48 lines
2.1 KiB
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Voxel Tools for Godot
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C++ module for creating volumetric worlds in Godot Engine.
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Setup
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Install the contents of the repo in a folder under "modules/", named "voxel".
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IMPORTANT: if you clone the repo, Git will create the folder as the repo name, "godot_voxel". But because Godot SCons scripts consider the folder name as the module's name, it will generate wrong function calls, so you must rename the folder "voxel".
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Features
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- Fully editable terrain (see demo: https://github.com/Zylann/voxelgame)
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- Compact voxel storage using 8-bit channels like images
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- Data segmentation using blocks of 16x16x16 voxels (so the world can be theoretically infinite)
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- Support for minecraft-style terrain using voxel types
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- Support for smooth terrain using Transvoxel http://transvoxel.org/
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- Vertex-based ambient occlusion on voxel edges (only cubic mode, comes for free at the cost of slower mesh generation)
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- Mesh-based physics based on Godot (high generation cost but works at decent speed)
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- Simple interface for deferred terrain generators (block by block)
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- Optional profiling information
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Ideas TODO
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- Automatic terrain generation (currently not automatic)
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- Voxels can be of any shape, not just cubes (not fully accessible yet but present in code)
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- Dynamic voxel loading (finite or infinite maps)
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- Support internal threading
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- Support saving and loading through helper classes
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- Promote classes to Node and Resource for better editor experience
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- Helpers for structure generation (anything that is bigger than one voxel)
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- Convert any imported meshes to Voxel-ready meshes (to comply with a few optimizations)
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- Generate Mesh resources from voxels so they can be used in the editor as MeshInstances
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- Import resources from other editors like Magicka-voxel
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- Volumetric grid algorithms: fluids, pathfinding, lighting...
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- Seam-free level of detail (LOD)
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- Ability to bake terrains if we don't want them to be editable in game
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- Migrate to DLScript (needs reworks to keep low overhead, but that would be really, really nice)
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