Procedural areas

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• OldManFunk Member Posts: 894

  August 2013

  There will likely be something like a cross between MineCraft and Diablo dungeons.

   

  The Voxel Farm site talks about what the engine can do http://voxelfarm.com/vfweb/engine.html :

  • Engine Core: Includes the world and scene octree system, also the voxel to polygon transformation pipeline.
  • Procedural Terrain: Generate rich highly realistic or stylized terrains on the fly.
  • Voxel Instancing System: Add new layers of detail using pre-generated voxel models. This can be used for adding trees and interesting rock formations to the landscape.
  • Rendering System: Using OpenGL, it is a fast and robust renderer. It features dynamic realistic lighting and an advanced material system.
  • Sandbox Edition: Allow your users to modify anything in the world in realtime by carving and adding new voxels.
  • LSystem and Structural Grammar Language and Virtual Machine: Write small sets of rules you can use to generate large numbers of similar objects: buildings, weapons, items, virtually anything with a structure you can describe.
  • Voxelization Component: Bring pre-existing or procedurally generated meshes into the voxel world so your users can modify them. Players of your game expect to carve into a building just the same way the can carve into the ground. This component allows that.
  • Networking Component: Provides an easy way to bring a multiplayer aspect to your game.
  • Octree Voxel Database: Very fast and efficient storage for your voxel data.