Voxel handling library for game development, threaded generation/io/meshing with openGL rendering.
voxigenVoxel handling library, generating/loading/saving/meshing/memory managment.
Although the library is currently geared towards blocky worlds the hope is to support Marching Cubes and Dual Contouring in the future. Voxigen handles chunking and loading/saving of the world based on a maximum size. The world is not infinite but the size can be chosen as though it seems to be infinite. Also the current generator choses blocks based on a cylinder out of 3D noise allowing the y axis to wrap around. Sphere could be possible but rendering might become an issue.
The plan is to support physics directly into this layer so the world is segmented into regions that the physics will stay stable in. There should be sharing across the segments to make sure the simulation is across the full world.
There is currently a very simple generator in place, hopefully this will get more complex as time goes on. I am hoping to build the generator system to be plugable, allowing outside developers to add their own implmentation with out the worry of complexity the base has.
The library is template based. The type of block is up to the user and is the first argument of the world object, the remaining are the size of the chunks and region size.
World<BlockType, ChunkSizeX, ChunkSizeY, ChunkSizeZ, RegionSizeX, RegionSizeY, RegionSizeZ> world;
The world segmentation is chosen at compile-time but the size of the world is a runtime option. Currently it can easily handle a sun sized planet (assuming 0.5 meter cubes). It should be noted that the library assumes right handed world with z as the “up” dimension in the world.
This is still very new and likely at any point things may change and also not work.
Any comments/suggestions will always be welcome.