Voxel Plugin

[Phyronnaz]

Videos of recent stuff done by Ideo:

UE4 - Voxel Character deformation

UE4 - Endless 2.5D Space game + Procedural planet generation

[rYuxq]

Wow, these are some really nice use cases… Nice work (y)

[skunkiferous]

@Phyronnaz

Optimization described above added, allowing to go from O(N^3) to O(N^2), O(N) or O(1) in many cases. In my tests the world generation was more than twice as fast.

@skunkiferous

1. Mine is insanely better, even the free version has more features. He doesn’t have LODs, perf sucks etc
2. Voxel farm is using a more precise algorithm, where you can have sharp features. If you don’t need that marching cubes (that I use) are just as good. My plugin is way more basic than VF, but IMO is far enough to achieve awesome stuff What are you trying to do exactly?

I’m just a noob hobyist, but basically, I’d like to do something similar to 7 days to die, but scifi themed. I believe that 7d2d use some different tech for their voxels, but I have to use what is available to me. OTOH, by now, 150 USD won’t make much of a difference in my expenses…

EDIT: I probably made my reply sound “over enthusiastic”. I already bought basically 100% of all assets I need, including characters, sound effect, blueprints, animations, systems, … “All I have to do”, is to glue it all together. :rolleyes: And if it wasn’t clear, I only meant to use a voxel plugin for the procedurally generated terrain; I’ll use something else for the “building” part. In fact, I think the end result will be more like Empyrion than 7D2D (which I didn’t mention, because 7D2D is 10 times more well known than Empyrion).

[Phyronnaz]

Added perf counters to voxel graphs:

That’s with the axis analysis described above. Without:

2.6 millions calls vs 5.6 millions

@skunkiferous For terrain this will work perfectly :). If you want to discuss that a bit more you should join the discord: Voxel Plugin

[VariableArgument]

For those wondering about the strength of the Voxel graphs. These were generated using a quite simple voxelgraph:

[Phyronnaz]

New local variables nodes:

[Phyronnaz]

• Added sync between chunks that are updated at the same time to avoid holes when editing near chunk borders:

voxel plugin™ edits sync

• Added back async crater tools:

voxel plugin™ crater tool

• Added back voxel physics & made them async. They are now a lot faster, allowing for larger search area:

voxel plugin™ voxel physics

• Switched to async linetraces for edits

I’ve also started using latent nodes, which makes all that a lot more BP friendly:

[Maydie]

Hello,

I am really interested in trying out this plugin. I want to be able to generate terrain and my own custom resources at runtime (does this use some sort of perlin?). I am assuming this will work?

Also, your website advertises the plugin being compatible with 4.20, however, the downloads are only compatible with 4.18 / 4.19. I don’t want to install an older version of UE engine. Are the download links outdated?

[VariableArgument]

The plugin uses fastnoise. You can use different noises and comine them for different effects.

https://voxel-plugin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/noisenodes.html

[anonymous_user_e773414c]

hello,why is this strange grid?the material should generate a world all in blue.

Materials[Index] = FVoxelMaterial(FColor(0,0,255,0));

[HorusWM]

“It’s available for UE 4.19 & 4.20.”
It’s not working on 4.20 and get errors while compile.

[Ryusak1]

i have the same problem no download for 4.20

[Ryusak1]

no news ?

[MikeRPG]

@HorusWM

“It’s available for UE 4.19 & 4.20.”
It’s not working on 4.20 and get errors while compile.

I don’t think the free version works in 4.19/4.20. I have the paid version and can verify it works 100% in 4.20

[HorusWM]

@MikeRPG

I don’t think the free version works in 4.19/4.20. I have the paid version and can verify it works 100% in 4.20

But there are no indications of the difference between paid and free versions for latest versions of ue. I think the author just stopped updating the free version.

[mflux]

Hi I just bought your excellent plugin from gumroad and downloaded 1.1.2. However I don’t see many features advertised such as the preview in the graph editor as seen here voxel plugin™ graph workflow example - YouTube or the VectorLength node as seen here https://voxel-plugin.readthedocs.io/…/_images/6.png

Is there a place I should be getting the latest version? Thanks.

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edit Got the latest version DMing phyronnaz thanks!

[spacegojira]

@HorusWM

But there are no indications of the difference between paid and free versions for latest versions of ue. I think the author just stopped updating the free version.

Well he has a life and job outside of the Voxel Plugin, so it’s only fair that he spends the least time on updating the free version. The pro version works in 4.20.

[Phyronnaz]

New fancy pics made possible by the latest voxel graph update!

And here’s the graph behind all that:

[CoquiGames]

• this is amazing! Your plugin keeps getting better and better

[anonymous_user_64a963b9]

Hi there! Is it possible to mine minerals in this like in Minecraft? And allow users to build structures and craft like in Minecraft?