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[raistlinthewiz]

Hi there all!, I'm the new guy in the town and will be posting updates on my engine.

Disclaimer: This is not meant to be a minecraft rip-off, clone or anything. I'm just building it for fun - which I need thanks to my boring day-time job Yet again, I'm testing myself to see what I'm capable of. Hope I'll not flamed for it

Voxeliq Engine is a Minecraft-like block-engine which is not even in alpha-stage. So I'll be not be posting any testable-executables any in near future Still I capture ingame videos frequently and I'll be posting them here once I capture new ones.

Info

• Programming language: C# & XNA 4.0
  
• Dev-blog: http://www.voxeliq.org/
  
• Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/voxeliq

Status

• Improved infinitive terrain implementation
  
• Better & optimized memory usage
  
• Ingame chunks: 1089 ~ 35 million blocks.
  
• Basic lightning – though kinda buggy & incomplete.
  
• Shiny textures
  
• Skydome (with generated clouds), fog, flying support.
  
• Basic shovel ~ block build/crack support.

Screenshot

Voxeliq Engine VII - Bloom Effects

Voxeliq Engine VI - Day & Night Cycles - 03.2012

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Old Videos

Voxeliq Engine V - 11.2011

Techno Visualizer

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IV - Infinitive Terrain 2.0

III - Infinitive Terrain

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Video 7 - Bloom Effect

• Added a sample bloom effect though it's over applied in magnitude.
  
• Replace how block memory is handled. Now blocks are stored in a single huge array instead of array per chunks.
  
• Few optimization on generation/lighting/building.

[roel]

Looks like a nice project!

[raistlinthewiz]

Video of voxeliq running over monogame (opengl)



For details: http://www.voxeliq.o...opengl-upd-r186

[v71]

Why fear to be flamed ? this is not gamedev , relax , very good work indeed

[raistlinthewiz]

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[Stainless]

Have you tried decreasing the size of the voxels, and increasing the number of them?

Kind of like increasing the resolution of an image.

Just wondered what sort of frame rate you would get and how many voxels you can render before it grinds

[Vilem Otte]

Nice project!

In videos it seems like it freeze for a half second (or even less), when you're generating terrain - seems to me like you're generating whole map, or at least parts, you already have in memory. Or the little lag might also be somewhere else.

[raistlinthewiz]

@vilem, if you're talking about the very last video (IX monogame) - that's caused by monogame not allowing off-threads atm. Other video's don't have that problem in.

• In XNA version I've actually an off thread that can generate / lighten / build block vertices.
  
• Building block vertices on monogame causes problems as it doesn't allow gpu stuff to be processed in off-threads which will be fixed.

@stainless, haven't tried that yet but I'll be doing so.

[marlfox]

Beautiful work! I've also become quite interested in making an XNA Voxel engine as of late. Are there any resources you could recommend that cover the core algorithms and techniques for achieving that blocky minecraft-style look with a reasonable framerate? I've been reading through the Voxeliq project blog but it mostly covers optimization techniques that will come later once I've developed a prototype. Thanks a lot and again, great work!

[raistlinthewiz]

This should get you started: http://www.voxeliq.o...ines-resources/