Dan Fessler

Dev by day, artist by night / Senior Engineer @Roblox / prev. CCO @incite_dev, CVO @CoreGames

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@brilgandspowegg yeah you know, I think this would look awesome. I'll try it

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considering a voxel lighting algorithm that lights each voxel a uniform amount based on a calculated normal instead of using the cubic faces of each voxel.

Got a proof of concept working but now need better demo assets. Anyone have pixel-art quality voxel assets for me to try?

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@timsoret @akothari @NotionHQ @ivan now .wtf is what you'd expect it to be ;)

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@timsoret @akothari @NotionHQ @ivan boy do I have news for you about .io haha

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@snakepixel @yg_fool I see you’re awesome perspective! Scroll the screen you coward.

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@gdechichi Looked through them and didn’t find something of the resolution and quality level I need. Basically I need medium sized sculpts with little-to-no 1 voxel wide details

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@StarvingFoxStd Both are precomputed so they’re the same at runtime. Definitely more expensive to pre-compute this than default because the default is just instanced cubes with the same normal information

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@snkz not yet but I plan to

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@elnanokiwi Oh yeah for sure

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@thelazyforger I’m not constructing a surface mesh in this process - but the goal isn’t to make a smooth mesh anyway, it’s to embrace the voxels

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@FabriceNEYRET @gllmLoubet Nice! Thanks for the references! Will have to give it a deep reading

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@HBthisistempo Ah I think I see. I actually think you can have hard specular with this setup as it is. I’ll have to post an example later

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@Trevor_ShowALK The voxeliest of snow cones

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@HBthisistempo Having a hard time visualizing what that would look like

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@elnanokiwi Probably not the best fit for Minecraft to be honest - this is best when the voxels are small

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@LincolnMargison If using hard edges the problem becomes “how do you tile the area without discontinuities or gaps” - cubes solve that nicely. Seems like Comanche solved it by oversizing the voxel squares?

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@LincolnMargison Starts to resemble Gaussian splatting how you’re describing it. Probably could would but loses the pixel art charm that most people love the medium for

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@crytr_ You’re right this has a flaw with 1 voxel-thick elements. Since the voxel is just one value and represents two opposite facing directions then it’s undefined what it should do. I have a few solutions in my head but haven’t fully tried them yet

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@RefinedLurk I sample the neighboring voxels in a kernel to derive the surface normal

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@timsoret Nice I was wondering if you were doing something like that. I’ve seen a. Few people independently arrive at similar solutions but it’s a shame the voxel editors themselves don’t support this as a standard rendering mode

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@BelleAccount Not particularly no