Voxel Plugin

[HeadClot]

Ok, so someone mentioned World Composition that wont be of much use with an infinite voxel world.

However offsetting or shifting the player origin would be useful to prevent floating point issues.

[Phyronnaz]

HeadClot Isn't SetWorldOriginLocation enough?

[HeadClot]

HeadClot Isn't SetWorldOriginLocation enough?

I was not aware of this. Let me do some research with this function

[Phyronnaz]

HeadClot It's directly changing location of all actors in the scene.

[frostic]

I don't know if it is just my pc but ill throw my specs up and hope one of you guys will know why I lag really bad when i try to run the project or when i try to edit terrain.

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[Phyronnaz]

Your GPU (Intel HD Graphics 530) is an integrated GPU: it won't run any recent game.

What you could try is to set the Depth property of the VoxelWorld actor to 1.

Anyway if you consider seriously Game Dev I'll suggest buying a real GPU, as you config is quite good apart from that.

[Kris]

I don't know if it is just my pc but ill throw my specs up and hope one of you guys will know why I lag really bad when i try to run the project or when i try to edit terrain.

Definitely your PC

Check out wiki entry on Recommended Hardware : https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Recommended_Hardware

Phyronnaz Impressive stuff!
Thought of trying your hand at animated voxels?
i.e. Convert skeletal mesh to voxels and still have it animate.
Just curious.

[Emrehan]

I have an idea. When you dig a cave and it was too thin, you could get the surface to collapse. With column or that kind of actor's help, you can stop it. But it mustn't be standart option. If you don't want to use it, you could keep this option close.

[Phyronnaz]

Kris I first need to finish static mesh import , but I don't really see the point of this, as it would be quite costly and won't look great.

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[Emrehan]

Thank you so much!

[HeadClot]

Hey Phyronnaz,
Got a few Requests for this plugin,

I have a bunch of height maps that I would like to stamp into the voxel terrain similar to how Gaia handles things.

Here are the requests -
1. Would it be possible to add height map stamping into the Voxel terrain?
2. Would it be possible to add a biome spawning tool similar to GeNa? Maybe Extend this tool into your plugin

Question -

Is it possible to save out the the Voxel Terrain? If so how do I do this?

[Phyronnaz]

@HeadClot

1: I've already done landscape import, all I need to do is VoxelModifiers: actors that you can place into the scene to modify the terrain.
2: Definitively want to add that.

For now only runtime save is supported, see the wiki page

[Phyronnaz]

Grass:

[Morgrhim]

In the wiki for using this, it states "Content is required to use materials". I know how to migrate between projects, but exactly which content is required? I'd rather not bloat my project with things I'm not going to use, like the ThirdPerson stuff or VehicleAdv.

[Phyronnaz]

Morgrhim All you should need is the VoxelMaterial folder and eventually the VoxelPlayerController.