Voxel Plugin

Next-gen landscape for @UnrealEngine

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

Announcing Voxel Plugin 2

Runtime Nanite
Nanite Tessellation
Runtime Lumen
Unlimited Materials

Release early 2025

#ue5 #gamedev #indiedev

[Victor D. Goossens @Mr4Goosey]

The time has come! We've got some super exciting stuff on the horizon for Voxel Plugin 2, now with a (rough) release date!
I'll be posting some deeper looks at of some of the fun things I did for this demo soon😄

[Victor D. Goossens @Mr4Goosey]

A realistic beech forest generated in 15s using @voxelplugin's new foliage system for @UnrealEngine.
Full geo trees from @quixeltools, rendered through Nanite with Lumen and VSMs.
There's more to be done, but I'm pretty happy with the results so far.
#ue5 #gamedev #indiedev

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

I've pushed a new Voxel Plugin 2.0 preview release! Here are the release notes if you're curious: https://t.co/kcw1zH15I4

Highlights of this release:
- New graph-based procedural foliage system

https://t.co/6UidtOpgMC

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#UE5 #voxel #gamedev #indiedev

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

I need help: say I have a plugin that lets you render millions of cubic voxels in Unreal super fast

It can run on integrated graphics, can support opaque, shaded, translucent voxels

Would you have a use for that, and if yes what?

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#UE5 #voxel #gamedev #indiedev

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

Spawning procedural foliage on top of procedural foliage :)

The rocks are spawned on the voxel mesh, and the grass/flowers layered on top

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#UE5 #voxel #gamedev #indiedev

[Voxel Plugin @voxelplugin]

@raketen_johnny https://t.co/2IgoroeCui

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

To whom it may concern: 5.1.0 and 5.1.1 are NOT binary compatible

FMaterialOverrideNanite's layout was changed in https://t.co/09EK3MXF9x

This affects at least UMaterialInstance

This is especially bad for plugins as they get compiled on 5.1.0 for the marketplace

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

I really like the way our generic nodes work :)

Being able to do math on different types is really useful

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

In today's Voxel Plugin 2.0 beta update:
- Nanite foliage support
- Trig nodes working with degrees
- Min/Max now accept vectors

If you own VP Pro & want to try VP 2.0: https://t.co/XV4AjQBa8u

#UE5 #voxel #gamedev #indiedev

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

We will be live in next week's Inside Unreal to talk about Voxel Plugin 2.0!

We will showcase how voxels can be used to easily design complex worlds in #UE5 - without sacrificing performance & quality

#voxel #gamedev #indiedev @UnrealEngine

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

With everything going on with Twitter, here's the link to the Voxel Plugin discord 😄

https://t.co/XY2CzHweL9

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

I'm unable to go to #unrealfest, but my wonderful colleague @Notion_3D will be there!

If you have questions about @voxelplugin or want to see a demo of our latest tech, go talk to him :)

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

Sneak peek of the stuff we'll be showing off at #unrealfest

#UE5 #voxel #gamedev #indiedev

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

Accelerating @voxelplugin with GPU does make it pretty speedy 😄

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#UE5 #voxel #gamedev #indiedev

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

In @VoxelPlugin 2.0, graphs will be able to run on the CPU and the GPU

Some nodes, like Make Marching Cube Data, can only work on the CPU and will copy the data from the GPU as needed

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#UE5 #voxel #gamedev #indiedev

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

If you're looking for us at Unreal Fest, look for the logo 👀

#UE5 #voxel #gamedev #indiedev

[Tefel 🚀 Astro Colony OUT NOW! @TefelDev]

Happy #screenshotsaturday! ☄️
Astro Colony's new features for EA release NOV 7

#Gamedev #indiegame #gamers #pcgaming #indiedev #indie #IndieGameDev #VideoGames #UE4 #UE5

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

Looking great, congrats @TefelDev!

I'm always impressed with what you manage to do with @VoxelPlugin :)

[Victor Careil @phyronnaz]

Auto-generated detail textures will truly bring @VoxelPlugin's distant terrain quality to the next level :)

#UE5 #voxel #gamedev #indiedev

[Victor D. Goossens @Mr4Goosey]

The past few days I've been exploring to possibilities guided procedural generation for large-scale worlds.

In this case, I'm generating mountains from sphere brushes.

The new MetaGraph/Landmass framework in the WIP @voxelplugin 2.0 opens up a lot of cool doors for this stuff.