Project website: https://jacco.ompf2.com/voxel-world-template/
Purpose:
This template has been designed to make it easy to start coding C++ using games and 3D graphics. The world is 3D, but consists of a finite amount of 'voxels' (3D pixels): exactly 1024x1024x1024 are available to you. Programming games on this 3D 'screen' closely resembles how we created games on homecomputers - but without the now outdated 2D graphics. At the same time, the template is nothing like large engines, like Unity and Unreal. You get full control over your machine, and you are welcome to dive deep into the template code, to change it as you wish, once you are ready to do so.
Performance:
Although the engine is aimed towards basic game development, it comes with state-of-the-art ray tracing with high performance code for the latest GPUs as well as older ones. Up to 2 billion rays per second in non-trivial scenes are possible on a RTX3080Ti GPU - but without using RTX. Even a 1080 will do well over half a billion rays per second. Combined with TAA and global illumination, this renders your scenes with high fidelity, even at high resolutions.
Tools:
Import models created with MagicaVoxel, including animated models. And if it turns out to be hard to find those .vox files, just create your own, for example by converting them from .obj files, using the included tool.
Copyright
This code is completely free to use and distribute in any form. Build, play and sell your game without obstacles.
Utrecht, 2015-2021, Utrecht University
Breda, 2014 and 2020-2021, NHTV/IGAD/BUAS
Jacco Bikker
Report problems and suggestions to bikker.j@gmail.com.
