Voxel Plugin

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Voxel Plugin is available for Unreal 4.23, 4.24 and 4.25.

It brings everything you’d expect from a nice voxel plugin:

  • ultra fast infinite volumetric worlds
  • real time editing of the terrain
  • infinite colors, or up to 256 different materials
  • 2 modes: smooth (marching cubes with transvoxel for LODs) or cubic (with LODs too)
  • full blueprint interface (except world generation which is C++ only or custom graph as blueprint are way too slow, see pro version below)
    and lots of other stuff like save/load, undo/redo…
  • powerful editor (and runtime) tools

All that is available in a free version, which you can grab here: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/product/voxel-plugin-free

A pro version is also available, with more features:

  • multiplayer support
  • (procedural) foliage support
  • ultra advanced graph system to generate custom worlds in a few clicks: the graph system supports C++ translation, macros, local variables, textures, curves…
  • multiple importers to import voxels from magica vox, 3D coat, meshes, heightmap, UE landscapes…
  • voxel physics
    and plenty more!

For more details you can check the official website: https://voxelplugin.com
You can also discuss with me and the other users on discord (mainly text): https://discord.voxelplugin.com
You can also follow me on twitter and youtube:
https://twitter.com/phyronnaz
https://twitter.com/voxelplugin
https://youtube.com/voxelplugin

The plugin also has official wiki and forums:

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#2

Neat stuff!! And, thanks for the source… Great learning tool.

teak

#3

Most kind of you to share such a wonderful resource.

Thanks!

#4

great job !

#5

I was thinking in a personal game with something like this for a while, and this is a majestic resource for marching cubes dude, excellent community as usual, thank you very much sir

#6

Added basic multiplayer and load/save

#7

This looks great - nice work!

#8

Super-cool stuff, thanks for sharing!

#9

Is it possible to use an existing terrain as input for a voxel terrain?

#10

Should be easy to do, as long as you know how to recover the heightmap from the terrain.

#11

nice work!
thank you really much for sharing it

is there a way to generate a procedural terrain via BP? maybe using noise? right now i’m only able to generate a flat landscape

ps: i’m not able to get the save system working using UE 4.17.1
i tried it with master branch and Voxel.zip (VoxelContent.zip)

#12

I’m not only talking about the heightmap, but the terrain material as well
So there is no procedure implemented to transfering an existing terrain to a voxel terrain?

#13

This looks like nice job, one question in your video seems like have problem of performance with the LOD system at go away ?

Ty for this.

#14

yeah, save system works!
i messed something up in the rebuild process, works perfect now

#15

Not yet, but transferring heightmap should be doable. For the materials however, it would require some work as terrains are using UVs while I’m using triplanar projection.

I just modified the VoxelWorldGenerator to inherit from UInterface, so that blueprint can be used (see Implementing Blueprint Interfaces | Unreal Engine Documentation). But using blueprints affects performance and limits terrain size (blueprints loop limit).

This is because camera is going too fast. There is no lag when going at a normal speed. Various parameters can also be tuned to decrease quality and improve performance.

:slight_smile:

#16

WIP: Mesh importer

Performance test: 8 chunks updating every frame

#17

Getting some errors when trying to compile.
Error C4800 ‘int’: forcing value to bool ‘true’ or ‘false’ (performance warning) Project E:\Unreal Projects\Project\Plugins\Voxel\Source\Voxel\Private\TransvoxelTools.cpp 342
Error C4800 ‘int’: forcing value to bool ‘true’ or ‘false’ (performance warning) Project E:\Unreal Projects\Project\Plugins\Voxel\Source\Voxel\Private\VoxelChunkStruct.cpp 326
Error Failed to produce item: E:\Unreal Projects\Project\Plugins\Voxel\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4Editor\Development\UE4Editor-Voxel.lib Project E:\Unreal Projects\Project\Intermediate\ProjectFiles\ERROR 1

#18

I don’t have this error. Did you set any custom build arguments?

#19

No, I downloaded the voxel.zip put it in plugins folder of my project and it said it couldn’t be compiled for this version (4.17.1) and to rebuild from source manually

#20

Try with this one: https://github.com/Phyronnaz/MarchingCubes/files/1265244/Voxel.zip
If it doesn’t work download the entire project and compile it with visual studio.