Features

These are the current features of the engine:

• Different voxel types and shapes.
• Chunk-based rendering and meshing.
• Multi-threaded mesh building.
• Ambient occlusion.
• Animated textures.
• Connected Textures.
• Custom shaders and shader effects.
• Vertical and horizontal chunks.
• Pre-Baking Lighting system.
  • Flood fill lighting system for local sources.
  • Support for different colored lights.
  • Sunlight calculation for global illumination (like Minecraft)
• World Data API - Easy way to create chunks and the needed data for it.

These are the features being worked on:

• Easy to use light API and light options
• Easy to use auto-update world on voxel add/remove
  • Will auto update light sources for you.
• Fluid flow and magma flow like Minecraft.
• Same voxel different colors
  • Set a color directly on voxel data.
  • Options to create shade gradient with neighbors.
• Dynamic Lighting system.
  • Will use Babylon's built-in dyamic lights and shadow casting.
• One mesh mode
  • If the world does not need to update a lot all the worlds chunk meshes can be combined into one for each substance.
• Well-written wiki with tutorials on how to do anything that you could possibly want.
• Standard data format for the engine that will be called either .dsd or .dved for saving the world data and or structures.

These are long term goals:

• Basic physics and collision detection.
  • Working to develop some helper functions to determine what voxel the player is looking at or touching.
  • Instead of using collision detection with the actual meshes it will calculate collision in the world thread.
• More shader effects and custom voxel substances
• Structure creator software.