More Dense Grass | Voxel Dev Showcase

Here, the grass is also animated via perlin-like noise
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[@jkr9594]

Ignoring the crunchy self-shadowing herein, this looks great!

[@GabeRundlett]

Good eyes, there are now shadow maps that need to be drawn specifically for the particles in order for this to work. I can turn shadow-casting off on a per-particle basis, though, so in other videos, you'll see I actually disable it for the whole grass strand!

[@Mel_Amber]

your voxel engine is super impressive looking!
I daw some trees and flowers in your other videos, imagine if trees would start off tiny and actually grow and branch depending on the light they’re getting..?
a grow update could happen only once a minute per tree that way you should be able to have many gradually growing trees.?
another thing, I was scrolling though this video (to watch it again) and I noticed that youtube blurred the image and in its blurry state it looked ver realistic? idk why but it gave me an idea:
• render the scene to an image at 1/4 size then resize the image and somewhat sharpen it..(or even ai upscale it??) I wonder what that would do to the look..

[@GabeRundlett]

I really want to do this tree idea!

[@dalton-at-work]

the "van gogh-esque" quality really is so appealling

[@rosbly]

It's crunchy

[@miguelemos8808]

You will have to rethink the ambient occlusion and consider placing more emphasis on translucency

[@GabeRundlett]

Yes, the lighting model does not consider translucency at all right now. I really want sub-surface scattering for foliage!

[@joelrichardson624]

bro that's siq