Making my Voxel Engine Really Fast 

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it's prob not a priority rn, but i'd love to eventually see walking smoothed out. so its not all bumpy thanks to each tiny block

I am pretty blown away with how on earth you managed to do this. I don't know an awful lot about computing things on the GPU - but it seems really difficult, especially with just how the GPU works - not really having access to much information outside of each individual calculation.

i absolutly got shocked by the water and fire simulation....absolutly amazing

To get rid of the lag when the player creates floating voxels you could start the query with voxels adjacent to the ones last edited. Doing it this way could also prevent having to search the whole area for floating geometry.

this game development journey you're on is fantastic and am looking forward to the final product!

So lovely to see you also focus on optimisations. Love this project.

Here is a trick for you to make the 60ms the gpu takes at 2:00 appear instant: create an animation when the user destroys blocks (for example the blocks disappear one by one or vanish in some way) that takes about 50ms :) then the physics calculation (gravity) would feel instant

I am astonished you only have 3600 subscribers and so little support for this game. This is incredible and transcends Minecraft in every way, you’re definitely going to succeed if you keep this up!

Definitely a hidden gem. It's definitely not minecraft despite what RU-vid might call it.

This is really cool. It still looks like you're going to need an absolute monster of a PC to run a game made with this once you have environmental stuff going on where there are ticking entities.

Man videos like this always make me want to get into graphics programming, but at the same time it just seems so damn difficult. Awesome video, keep up the great work.

I'm saddened that this is the first video of this project that was suggested to me, but your game looks awesome! I love games that feel like the world interacts with you, but of course those are also really hard to design and make work logistically. This video seems to be doing well, so hopefully this will get you some good attention! Great job!

I would love to see a technical deep dive into some of the challenges and inner workings of this engine! I'm genuinely blown away at how performant and beautiful the graphics and physics looks 🙂👍

What I learned from coding in scratch is that ray casting directly with the tile information is faster than having a sort of hitbox middle man like a mesh. Probably only applicable to RT, and that's in contrast to scratch's hit detection.

I really like this idea, reminds me of teardown but with survival haha

Bro is really out here showing us the best game to be made since 2019 bit by bit and I am already ridiculously excited.

I have to say this looks gorgeous. The higher fidelity (sub-voxels? texels?) of the blocks makes it look infinitely better than other voxel games like Minecraft or Cube World.

wow! i’ve dreamed of making a voxel survival game but don’t know enough to make one yet, it’s cool to see it be done!!

I forgot the name of your channel and finally got it recommended again

This looks epic, can’t wait too see where this goes !!

holy idk why I was recommended this but god damn does this game look beautiful, I'd def play it upon release!

I can see ur burning passion in this project man! Hope u succeed in your development journey!

Боже мой! Это шедевр! Надеюсь ты доведешь игру до ума и в будущем в нее можно будет поиграть

I don't know what this is or how I ended up here, but holy SHIT. This looks absolutely stunning! I'll definitely be following along to see how this goes. Voxel sandbox games are still loaded with potential and this looks like a really unique and amazing take on the genre.

This is an amazing game even without GPU Compute yet you managed to make it so much better

Just found your channel and... I think you might actually beat hytale to the punch. I always wanted a more detailed and realistic voxel environment that I could still easily build in with larger voxels. Nice work. Might make a video on this.

damn, impressive. cant wait to see more progress on the game!

unique suggestion: when breaking the base of structures, calculate the total units on the side which does not make contact with the ground. Then, use a ratio to assign the minimum amount of “bridging” units before triggering a collapse. This way you can mimic the idea that very heavy object can’t be supported by just 1 single unit, and you could build on this program by assigning different support ratios for different material types.

damn, you're voxel world looks beautiful! especially love the water with the gradient to the light blue, reminds me of jamaica

This looks incredible dude!

this reminds me of teardown so much! i love these style of games, and great work making the engine run on lower end hardware!

Bro is making Teardown 2! Jokes aside, this is sick! I love highly optimized voxel tech that allows simulation and modification in abundance.

I am excited by the progress you have made! Also haha same graphics card.

The world of your game looks beautiful so far. I will say that the HUD does seem to create a bit of a "minecraft knockoff" vibe, but the general look of the world you are building is fantastic. I hope you come up with a amazing name for the game and sell a billion copies.

Wow that render distance at that voxel detail and graphical fidelity is mad impressive

Looks INSANELY promising. Can't wait to see what you come up with. I'd love to support this project in any way I can but I don't see a Patreon. Keep us updated!

Hi. YT algorithm recommended me this. I do not know game development, so take this with a truck load of salt. Suggestion: When the stone at 2:00 barely hangs on, let very tiny voxels with low resolution fall off of it randomly. This will make it feel like it's barely hanging on. Even with a 60ms delay, it would make it feel better. Anyhow, Godspeed on your game. Love the visuals. PS: If there is a way to stop the jittery camera when walking down a steep hill, that'd be amazing. Like in 0:59.

lol, "my sanity: Optional" I feel that on a personal level

It looks amazing so far. Keep up the good work!

this looks like teardown... i LOVE teardown... keep it up

This is so cool I cannot wait to play this if it ever gets fully fleshed out and released as a game.

I could imagine a scenario where we get Minecraft 2 in the form of something like this, and then Minecraft 3 with even smaller voxels, and then on and on with smaller and smaller scales of detail until, in the future, we have Minecraft 1000 that just looks real . Younger generations will ask elderly zoomers and millennials why we refer to units of material in Minecraft as "blocks", and we'll have to explain that, back in our day, Minecraft was iconic for having its world completely made of blocks that were half the size of the character. They'll be confused, until we show them what old Minecraft looked like and then they'll wonder how we ever tolerated it. They'll joke about how all the characters and creatures looked like painted carboard boxes (if we still use cardboard), and we'll just say "it had charm". And that's when we'll know we've been alive for too long.

Only now discovered this through recommended, what an impressive project. Makes me want to learn how to render voxels like that.

Nice work ! I loved burning tree part , really beautiful desgins there

Since I played teardown I thought a game in this style crossed with a game like Project Zomboid would be amazing. The depth and features of PZ with the visuals of this where you could build up a base anywhere you wanted would be amazing. Some kind of mishmash with PZ, this and 7 days to die.

I realize this might be a lot of work but I think if you smooth out the Z axis when moving it could make movement feel less jarring. Right now, It's like you're teleporting up and down with each step you take to keep your feet to the ground (which makes sense, the ground isn't smooth by design) it's honestly not a problem, moreso a quality of life thing I thought of watching this really cool demo!

I think the biggest reason why more people don't use GPU compute shaders for this (Despite the benefits of parallel execution times) is because of the frame hitches, especially from higher complexity procedural noises. I implemented a procedural generation system in 2D with a compute shader and due to the amount of processing there was an ~160ms frame hitch each time a set of chunks were generated. Of course I could optimize the algorithm a bit more, but when you're doing Warped FBM with high samples on voronoi with nearest points or more complex layered noises, there's no getting around the frame hitch that occurs. And the frame hitch feels a lot worse than lower fps or catching up with terrain generation imo. Thats why I at least just do it all in cpu and leave the gpu budget to effects and higher fps.

Seems like you're making a lot of progress, i hope stuff comes out well, keep the good work up!

having some cube craft vibes i love this

This is really cool to see. Though it is funny to see my GPU is still less powerful than the low end you tested here

I love to see that this game is still progressing, good luck

It's funny that I still have the exact same CPU and GPU as well. Must have been a popular choice :D

I love this!!! First reaction is to help out in any way. Keep it up!

Congrats on going viral!

you are doing awesome

For me this compenents are still very actual and dear, the most of game should run on 4GB GPU thank to optimisation. Hoverwer, you do a very great work of optimisation. Good continuation 😁😁

Really nice update mate, its looking really good

That looks actually amazing bro

>My sanity: optional Ugh, felt. You're doing good though! :D

this is so cool :] i havent seen ur other devlogs yet but this seems really impressive to my peabrain

i really like this concept i have an i5 4570 and a gtx 1050, and i can barely run teardown on 1080p at the lowest settings while getting a solid 70 frames but something like cube world gives me no issue at all looking at modern games, usually triple a ones, not a lot of games are optimized, new stuff comes out that most of the time ends up looking worse than what came before with double or triple the computing power required to run it

Excellent. Just a small detail, I don't know if it's feasible, but I think it would be better to smooth out the way the explorer falls off the little voxels, so it doesn't look like it's bouncing down the platforms, with a similar solution for climbing.

really satisfying seeing things go silky smooth once on the gpu

The world is beautiful, can't wait to see what kind of game this engine serves!

Wow! This is an awesome game engine! I wonder if it'd be better suited to a true sandbox like Minecraft, or if it's better suited for a progression oriented game like Terraria. Either way, thanks for sharing! That's amazing!

as someone with an "old by today's standards" cpu, this looks especially incredible :o this is pretty mindblowing even regardless of that

Can't wait to play your game, hope you post it soon

I somehow came across your channel in my recommend and am blown away. Some tutorials would be amazing!

I though from previous videos that you wrote your own engine, but this is Unreal Engine. I don't know if I'm less impressed or more impressed now

The engine looks wonderful, well done!

Epic video as always. As someone who always wants to play games with friends but is limited by their not being able to play certain games due to hardware, I really appreciate you making playability on lower end devices a priority. I'm sure you've been asked this question before, but I haven't seen it at the top of comments lately. Do you have a name for this project?

Man, I feel like we're not _that_ far away from a full new Minecraft scale. Teardown got a bit of the way there with a very shallow voxel ground supported on an unbreakable plane. But you've gotten *THICK* voxel masses, and that really matters.

reminds me of a game called "king arthurs gold", a PVP 2d game made of "blocks", teams would battle it out for a flag and build bases. If a structure didn't have support it would all collapse

Holy crap this gives me Cube World vibes, If only this turns out to be a better version of that...

Another teardown? LETS FUCKING GO

Wow!!! This is a great application of graphics cards! Quick question, how are you rendering millions of voxels? Do you merge them into one giant mesh?

dude as soon as this is for sale im buying it, id pay upwards of 60 bucks

Very impressive! I am excited to see where you go with this project. Just please remember to actually make it a game. Minecraft was just an art tool until they added the monsters and a food bar that you needed to keep full.

Hey Tooley, so I'm not sure if ive mentioned this yet, but the water in your game looks beautiful. I love the reflections, but I really wanna see it well to appreciate it. You see, I'm colourblind, and I have a lot of trouble seeing the water in your demo, as it blends in with the sandy background. Could you perhaps make it slightly more opaque, or perhaps give it some solid particles flowing through it? I can see clearly when the depth through the water is larger, such as looking out into the open ocean, but shallow water is... well its pretty much not there hah. Even if you just had a setting to make it more opaque, thatd be amazing. Thank you for reading!

Honestly think mojang should fear this mans ambition and talent alone

To smooth walking perhaps a small mesh could be calculated based on the slope from the corner of one voxel to the next, if the height difference between adjacent voxels is within a certain limit, otherwise the slope could be treated as vertical as it appears to be now.

bro you just revived my cube world dream

the option in choosing between what voxel data generation you want to use would be nice

Отличная работа, продолжай совершенствовать игру и снимать периодически видео. Алгоритмы Ютуба благословили тебя!

Hey, random, but have you thought about using the voxel colour value to offset the normal/roughness value of each voxel? Even by a tiny bit, it might give a cool texture, if that's the look you're going for

this game looks nuts so far. i really hope this game doesnt become another hytale or cube world. idk if im ready to be hurt again

That's actually beautiful

First time on this channel. Impressive work. So far I only played Minecraft. And for me the small plants in your game look chunky, and make the look a bit "messy" (but maybe it's because the voxels are small). MC uses sprites for small plants, which can show more details. You're already realistic sky, why not small plants?

Saw some of what this game has. Question is how about building if you can break the voxels only uncontrolled ways there wont be a way to build easily (not sure if you even want the game to have building) Well you could always add a chisel tool that while holding the material you are building with places missing voxels / chips away at the voxels in the way. Would be a nice way to make you run out of items if you break blocks carefully you would have to replace less while building making replacing using the chisel tool cost more would increase the need for those items if you do go that route you would also have to make mechanics that renew every rescourse, but it is a pretty cool idea to enable building while still allowing details perhaps using the chisel without holding the material chisel could also work with multiple material types at once randomly / in a pattern placing chosen voxels.

This game looks amazing, i love the style.

This looks really cool! Will the game have procedural generation?

' So that's basically just Teardown ' - Chrome

amazing work!!

Yo that looks amazing!

In my experience, GPU compute shaders don't work well with voxels, it's a lot of data to send back and forth between the CPU and GPU. While you might have a decent frame rate doing it, the GPU will still hitch every time you use a big compute shader, meaning your apparent frame rate might actually be lower with compute shaders. Though I admit some of the things, like the physics and fire propagation, seem to work well. The most important thing is how fast the render thread is, and compute shaders compete for resources with your rendering shaders.

Can't wait to see someone remake Doom in this engine.

This game looks absolutely GORGEOUS!

Looks amazing, like a combination of minecraft and teardown

Mojang: No, we cannot increase the world height to more than 384 blocks and the render distance can barely be set to 32 chunks. This guy: Hold my gpu