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A voxel engine in a pot
https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai

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README 

        

![hero_banner](screenshots/two_doors.png)



# Welcome to Bonsai!



Bonsai is a 3D voxel-based engine built with the intention of writing both

fast-paced arcade games and tile/turn-based RPGs



Bonsai, and nearly all it's dependencies, are written completely from scratch.

One external dependency is the C runtime library for startup, and a small

handful of trig functions (sin, cos, atan2).  I have a back-burner task to

remove the CRT entirely, though it's unclear when/if I'll get around to it.



The only requirements to build and run Bonsai are an OpenGL 3.3+ driver, C++

compiler, and a few appropriate system headers.



![banner](screenshots/orks.png)



# Quickstart



Grab pre-built binaries & assets from the [Latest Releases](../../releases/latest)

for your platform of choice (as long as it's Windows or Linux ;)



## Build from Source



See the docs on the [build process](docs/01_build_process.md).



## Renderer Features



* Deferred Shading

* HDR Lighting

* Order-independant Transparency

* Lighting Bloom

* Shadow Mapping

* Screen Space Ambient Occlusion



![banner](screenshots/abandoned_workshop.png)



## Engine Features



* Hot Code Reloading

* MT Job System

* Entities

* Collision

* Transparent & Emissive Particles

* UI Framework

* Asset Loaders

* Terrain Generators

* Primitive Physics



![banner](screenshots/profiler.png)



## Performance Profiler Features



* Manual Instrumentation

* Memory allocation tracing

* Per frame call-graph tracing

* Context Switches (windows only)

* Physical Core  (windows only)



# Gallery



![banner](screenshots/3_skele.png)



![banner](screenshots/grass.png)



![banner](screenshots/8_skele.png)



![banner](screenshots/dusk_defence.png)



![banner](screenshots/5_skele.png)



# Wishlist



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## Renderer



[ ] SSR : https://lettier.github.io/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners/screen-space-reflection.html



[ ] Screen-space lines : https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/drawing-lines-is-hard



[ ] Better shadows : https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-ii-light-and-shadows/chapter-8-summed-area-variance-shadow-maps



[ ] Screen Space Shadows : https://panoskarabelas.com/posts/screen_space_shadows/



[ ] Motion Blur : https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-iv-image-effects/chapter-27-motion-blur-post-processing-effect



[ ] TAA?



[ ] FXAA : http://blog.simonrodriguez.fr/articles/2016/07/implementing_fxaa.html



[ ] Water : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yhDb9dzJ58



[ ] Fluids : https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/fire.html



[ ] Remove meshing entirely? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xs66m1Of4A



[ ] Lumen-style GI screen-space radiance caching : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GYXuM10riw



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## Terrain



[ ] Erosion simulation

* https://inria.hal.science/hal-01262376/document

* https://xing-mei.github.io/files/erosion.pdf

* https://nickmcd.me/2020/04/15/procedural-hydrology/



[ ] Biomes

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdridge_life_zones



[ ] Meshing

* Isotropic surface meshing

* https://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs164-10-spring/Handouts/isotropic.pdf

* https://inria.hal.science/inria-00071612/document



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## Assets



[ ] MCA importer

* https://github.com/GabeRundlett/gvox/blob/old/src/formats/minecraft.cpp



[ ] Sound : mp3, ogg, ..? decompresser



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## Datastructures



[ ] Better low-discrepency sequences : https://blog.demofox.org/2017/05/29/when-random-numbers-are-too-random-low-discrepancy-sequences/



[ ] Better disk/sphere sampling patterns : https://extremelearning.com.au/how-to-generate-uniformly-random-points-on-n-spheres-and-n-balls/



[ ] Better hash function! : https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/07/31/



[ ] Better GPU hashing! : https://arugl.medium.com/hash-noise-in-gpu-shaders-210188ac3a3e



[ ] Hash-trie as alternative to a table : https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/09/30/



[ ] Octree ? https://graphics.tudelft.nl/Publications-new/2020/CBE20/ModifyingCompressedVoxels-main.pdf



[ ] Better floating-point rng : https://www.corsix.org/content/higher-quality-random-floats



[ ] Better greedy meshing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xs66m1Of4A



[ ] More interpolation goodies : https://paulbourke.net/miscellaneous/interpolation/



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## Profiler



[ ] Improve the ETW layer : https://github.com/bombomby/optick/blob/master/src/optick_core.win.h



[ ] GPU Profiling : https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Query_Object