Animated Voxel Grass (first iteration) | Voxel Dev Showcase

Here's a little supplemental video showing where the grass was about 2 weeks ago
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[@ibiuld443]

really cool! i've been working on a similar-ish system where sdfs get voxelized each frame in a compute shader. it's always inspiring to see other people pulling off the things i've been trying to do, gives me confidence that it's possible! thanks for the vid!

[@dottedboxguy]

woowww that's rly impressive gabe ! i love it

[@kaliyuga14surfer88]

amazing, can you stress test your engine on a massive scale?

[@GabeRundlett]

I am working towards larger scales with LOD at this very moment, but it's a lot of work!
To be clear, there are 2048^3 voxels in these videos. That's 8.5 billion voxels! The view distance itself is 1024 voxels in any direction (if the chunk wrapping is enabled) which is equivalent to a render distance of 64 in Minecraft. If we were to just measure based on voxel count though, you'd need a Minecraft render distance of 296 to get 8.5 billion voxels loaded, even with 1.18's raised build height!

[@kaliyuga14surfer88]

@@GabeRundlett that is amazing already dude... keep up the great work

[@logananderson3724]

Can you build a sundial?

[@GabeRundlett]

I'd have to make the shader, but of course!