itsflare/voxelite

🕹️ 3D voxel engine prototype written in Java

Voxelite was a student project for professor Dachsbacher's Graphics & Game Development course at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Computer Science M.Sc.). It consists of a proposal document, 4 sets of presentation slides, 8k lines of source code written over 3 months and was awarded the maximum grade.

Goals

• Implement contemporary graphics techniques
  • Volumetric light scattering as post-process
  • Cascaded shadow mapping (+PCSS)
  • Physically-based rendering
  • Screen-space reflections
  • Ambient occlusion
  • Normal mapping
  • Transparency-compatible bloom
• Create an efficient OpenGL deferred voxel renderer
  • Asynchronous chunk meshing
  • Nine total culling methods
  • Texture atlas generation
  • Asynchronous transparency sorting
  • Mixed RGB flood-fill voxel lighting
• Generate procedural terrain
  • Parallel noise-based chunk generator
  • Spline tree for maximum configuration
  • Multiple biomes and structures
  • Practically unlimited world size

If you're thinking of a Minecraft clone - yes, pretty much that. We even stole the textures!
We're no artists, but hopefully made up for that in technical enhancements ;-)

Non-goals

• Add gameplay elements beyond block placement
• Create a well-documented, impeccable codebase
• Cross-platform compatibility (Windows only)

Dependencies

Type	Solution
Native bindings	LWJGL
OpenGL abstraction	BeaconGL
User Interface	ImGui
3D Noise	OpenSimplex2
Logging	Log4j
Data Structures	FastUtil
Testing	JUnit / JMH
Other	Gson / Jansi

Thanks

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carsten Dachsbacher
• Killian Herveau, M.Sc
• Reiner Dolp, M.Sc
• Baldur Karlsson (renderdoc)