https://github.com/roeliefantje/ultimate-voxel-engine

This project is my attempt at creating the ultimate voxel engine. Using path tracing to render a large amount of tiny voxels.
https://github.com/roeliefantje/ultimate-voxel-engine

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This project is my attempt at creating the ultimate voxel engine. Using path tracing to render a large amount of tiny voxels.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/roeliefantje/ultimate-voxel-engine
• Owner: Roeliefantje
• Created: 2024-06-29T14:35:53.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-27T21:23:40.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-02T02:35:49.618Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: rendering, rendering-3d-graphics, rust, voxel-engine, wgpu, wgpu-rs
• Language: Rust
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• Size: 450 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# The "Ultimate" voxel engine Project

This project is my attempt at the ultimate voxel engine, built in rust using wgpu.

I started this project in order to get more familiar with both wgpu and Rust, by building a project I would like doing.

## Features

### Rasterization renderer

I plan to support rasterization rendering of the terrain mostly to compare performance against the path tracer.

Most of it is already in place and can be ran using:

``` cargo --features rasterization ```

It is still very basic and doesn't even support lighting yet.

### Path Tracer

This is the main way I plan on rendering the scene. A start is made by using a compute shader to calculate each pixel.

I still plan on accelerating this by using some sort of acceleration structure.

i.e. BVH, Octree.

I want to support a dynamically generated scene, so I need to figure out a way to allow changing bounds of certain nodes.

### Terrain Generation

I have some simple perlin noise terrain generation setup for the rasterizer, but it is not yet in use by the path tracer.

I plan to improve this when I either feel like doing so or to improve stress testing of my path tracer.

## Example pictures

Path tracer in action:

![Path tracing preview](./path_tracing_preview.png)

Rasterization + Chunk generation:

![Rasterization](./rasterization_example.png)

## Controls

The camera can be controlled through the mouse and WASD for the Path tracer.

I plan to upgrade the rasterization camera movement to be the same, but right now you can only move using WASD.