VOXEL TUTORIAL

Doe anybody know of a good voxel tutorial that is smooth not like minecraft.

 

not sure what you mean

 

He means like "7 Days to Die". And yeah I'm curious about tutorials like that too. Saw one like MC here on the forums a while back, and it had a section on how to make it smoother, but I didn't understand it at the time.

EDIT: I think I found it in this thread. Probably more than one tutorial there.

 

you'd probably do better with a question like this in the teaching section of the forums... scripting is more about getting help on specific (smaller scope) code issues, i.e. you've built half of a voxel system but it's not working in a way you like etc.

 

Try looking into manual mesh generation, and make a prototype that can generate a simple mesh from a 3D array, or something.

 

Your right I should have done that. Sorry.

 

I have done something like this but I couldn't find a way to increase the amount of voxels at a certain point for digging.

 

I'm not sure what you mean by this, but if you can get a prototype running where you can generate mesh from an array of booleans (ground or air), when you then dig, it should just be a matter of regenerating the mesh.

 

You know Ive been working on this for over a month and so far ive been using a float array with each float being a vert so theres a finite amount but if they where booleans then I could have an infinite amount and just turn them off/on. Just this one thing and all my issues are gone, I think I might be the most dense person in the world.

 

It's always obvious in retrospect

If you get it to work, you can later expand it to an Enum or something, if you want different terrain types.

And if your terrain gets larger, and you don't want to regenerate all the mesh every time you dig, you could make sure it only regenerates the blocks right next to the dug block.

 

Thanks for your help.
Boz0r Has helped me with my problem but I feel like people looking for a tutorial on voxel terrains it wont help them all that much so if you know of a good one feel free to post it.