saindd Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Does anyone know if the T3D integration with Polyvox was finished? Bill Vee was working on this, but apparently abandoned the project, without releasing any examples or source. This would be a very nice addition to the codebase. :Dhttps://bitbucket.org/volumesoffun/polyvox/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Johxz Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Yes was advance but not "finished"... he is now using unreal engine.See for yourself http://www.volumesoffun.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=470 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Duion Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 I asked some programmers, if they can integrate it and if for how much, they said, they would do it for around $1000.Maybe Bill Vee will sell his integration, but I was not able to contact him.So how about a crowdfunding campaign? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Johxz Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Good to know @Duion. We need to try to contact again Bill Vee and try to bought and then try to "finished" we some other programmer or at least that Bill try to "finished". I think the goal is reachable.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Timmy Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 What where you guys after, the smooth terrain (like what bill vee did) or the minecraft block style? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Duion Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 None of those, I think the main feature is the voxel terrain which can be edited, if you render it smooth or like minecraft is optional.Second feature that people may want is terrain paging. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Timmy Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Well it has to be rendered like something doesn't it, polyvox supports only the two i mentioned ;)To quote the official documentation on surface extractionGenerates a triangle mesh from the input volume data which can then be used for rendering.* Supports Minecraft style terrain where each voxel is represented by a cube.* Supports smooth terrain via the Marching Cubes algorithm. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Duion Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Yes, but if you would want only the rendering, you could do that in blender and export as static mesh into the engine, the main feature is to have it all inside the game engine. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Timmy Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Aah you want something like the feature set in Cubiquity. Funny enough they are dumping support for the smooth terrain part from Cubiquity and focusing only on block style. Something about the work involved supporting both and creating different editing features for both is just too time consuming. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Duion Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Why you would want simple blocks, if you can have smooth marching cubes?It may be a bit hard to integrate into the game mechanics, but having a volumetric terrain in the editor would be a big advance, since you could have cliffs and caves. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Timmy Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Unless you want to dynamically modify those cliffs and caves in game, there is no great point going to the trouble of integrating it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Duion Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 This will be the long term goal anyway, but this will be up to the people making an actual game out of it. If you can use it in the editor, you can use it in the game, but I don't know how hard it would be to make it networked. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Timmy Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 I'm sure it could be done (the networking). Anyways i do agree it would be a pretty cool feature to have in T3D. I think both block and smooth cubes would be pretty awesome to have, while you don't personally have any need/use for the block cubes i'm sure someone, somewhere would. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Timmy Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 This PolyVox stuff is fun :mrgreen: Here is the "example" sphere in T3D, this took a few hours to create including a cmake module for PolyVox. This is using the cubic surface extractor but could have easily been done using the marching cubes extractor. I just wanted to test it and see what the PolyVox api is like.http://i.imgur.com/Y9pJhBx.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/uhX8K3l.jpg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JeffR Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 That's pretty cool.Got a branch up for that? I'd like to play around with it as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Timmy Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 I got it on my private repo at the moment but i will clean it up and chuck it over on my public repo. I'll try and at-least show an example of texturing and hopefully destroying some blocks.There are a few different directions you could take the Polyvox intergration, i guess that can be a discussion for another day. Will post the link soon anyway Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Johxz Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 nice Timmy I was messing around the other day with this library... but my expertise is a little low hahaha so I have a mess of code everywhere. Hope you can public the repo for people start play with this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Timmy Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Yeah I'll chuck something up in the new year for people to play around with. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aMoistKite Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 I don't really like to necro posts but I am wondering how this went down. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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