Voxels and MineCraft.

Posted by Majatek on Dec. 3, 2010, 1:41 a.m.

Wait, MineCraft has NOTHING to do with Voxels, so why is it in the title? Well, Minecraft tries to fake voxels through the use of lots and lots of cubes - but to be fair, that isn't true voxels.

Scott_AW got me thinking over his journal entries and voxels, and I had a little peek at one website or another, and came up with this:

Dat voxels.

It comes from the beautiful Voxlap engine that was supposed to be released with Duke Nukem 3D, but unfortunately it wasn't completed by the time Duke Nukem 3D was sold to the public - Scott_AW knew of that (I didn't until now) and he decided to implement Voxlap (He's working on some cool things, so check his 64D page out)!

http://www.advsys.net/ken/voxlap/voxlap05.htm

Here's a page with demos: http://www.advsys.net/ken/voxlap.htm

And finally, I give you the link to the Destructible Dave Demo (You'll want to run "genall.bat" once you've extracted all of the files to create the 120 or so megabytes of game data for the levels and then run any of the "run#.bat" examples for different maps and shiz).

http://64digits.com/users/RamboFox/DestructibleCaveDemo.zip

(Oh, and you might want to press "Y" to uninvert the camera look controls)

Yeah, voxels kicks the utter shit out of Minecraft.

Now, all we need to do is to wait for games to begin utilizing this awesomeness.

Comments

sk8m8trix 14 years ago

No? I'm immune to warn anyway, go ahead, go get me some warn, I'm soooo scared mannn.

Majatek 14 years ago

Sk8, what the fuck. I didn't say that "I'm a moderator, and as such I have the ability to give you warn". I was merely suggesting that a moderator might choose to give you "sum warn, sk8". Oh, and to be fair, I can't "get you sum warn" either - you can only get warn yourself by doing retarded things like you are doing now.

@Mazimadu: http://forums.newdoom.com/showthread.php?t=36458

Also, lol drama.

sk8m8trix 14 years ago

Yeah but suggesting a moderator to warn me passively is like saying you think you can get me warned. Which you cant, cause I'm awesome :D

Majatek 14 years ago

No, I don't think I can get you warned. Only your own actions earn you warns C:

Anyway, I'm off to play Halo Reach (And hopefully become "Major" by the end of the day).

YES PLAYING HALO REACH IS MORE INTERESTED THAN SEEING YOU TRY TO ARGUE.

:3

Ferret 14 years ago

I liek waffles.

sirxemic 14 years ago

Quote:
No? I'm immune to warn anyway, go ahead, go get me some warn, I'm soooo scared mannn.
Because you don't care I gave you some squares. :3

sk8m8trix 14 years ago

Thanks!

sirxemic 14 years ago

I'M TELLING YOUR MOM ON YOU, CYRUS!

Scott_AW 14 years ago

Actually I haven't done much with voxlap yet, currently I'm using Duke3d's build engine which actually has voxel support from the beginning. Duke3d just didn't have any voxel models.

Good luck with Voxlap, if you want to find out more that you can do with it, look for Voxelstein's source code on sourceforge.