Per-voxel Normals modifiable | Voxel Dev Showcase

Now per-voxel normals are recomputed when the voxels are modified. This is done in a chunk-edit post-processing pass which also removes any normals that are underground, as those would be useless.
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[@aspidinton]

that's really impressive! love the lightning and the speed of world editing

[@jonahgordon2642]

Could these smoothed normals work with reflections also?

[@GabeRundlett]

They absolutely can and are

[@jonahgordon2642]

@@GabeRundlettWouldn’t the reflection rays intersect the voxels they are being reflected off of? Are you adding an offset along the ray to prevent self intersection or is the ray ignoring the voxel it just reflected from? I’m working on my own voxel engine using ray casting and would like to implement something similar. Unless this renderer uses meshes than never mind.

[@GabeRundlett]

@@jonahgordon2642 Yes, I start the ray about 1.5 voxels away from the voxel center