Voxels In Space - Godot Engine Smooth Voxel Terrain Generation

This is the third of three videos showcasing Voxels in Godot. This time we look at smooth voxels using a 3D noise algorithm with different shaders for interesting effects.
To play with my demo or to use voxels in your own projects, you need to build Godot from source with the Voxel Tools module built-in.
There are many steps, but it’s not too difficult and doesn’t require any coding. Just follow my instruction guide here:
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[@CodeWithTom]

This is fantastic. Nice work!

[@BrianRogers3D]

wha? this is great news! Been looking for a fast outdoor world for a FPS VR game using Godot. Well done! Thanks for all the shaders too!

[@gingerageousgames613]

Great work. I think I will love any tutorial that you choose.

[@FrancoisSchnell]

Love it! Looking forward to your future videos :)

[@KaletheQuick]

Here we go, this calms the shakes.

[@TokisanGames]

Glad you got your voxel fix. 😂

[@KaletheQuick]

@@TokisanGames I can quit any time I want!

[@mambe4349]

This dude needs more recognition

[@Reneator]

Impressive as always! keep it up!

[@nico8941]

Tutorials would be great!

[@BastiaanOlij]

But but but but, Godot can't do 3D! Well done man, Zylanns done some awesome work, its great to see people like you doing cool stuff with it! And yes on the shader tutorials. I think you'll make a lot of people happy with that.

[@TokisanGames]

Lol, funny how that reputation persists after years.

[@BastiaanOlij]

Indeed, same with ‘Godot can’t even do terrain’, while Zylann has had a working terrain system for ages. People just like to complain i guess, i just turn it into a joke:) Again great work man, looking forward to seeing more

[@vickylance]

@@BastiaanOlij But godot has many many basic fundamental bugs that needs to be fixed before anything else. If you look at the github issues there are over 5000+ bugs reported and you may think they maybe some rare or not to be frequently encoutnered bugs but guess what I have ran into a couple of issues just as I start in godot and when I raise it as an issue in that repo its indeed an issue in Godot. I really wish the lead maintainers first fix these breaking bugs instead of writing the vulcan. Graphics fidelity comes next. First the core engine should be bug free atleast of the basic ones.

[@maxwellclarke1862]

I would really love a shader tutorial video!

[@H3llBaron]

Very similar to Novalogic's Voxel Space 32 engine. It looks very good

[@haterdesaint]

Oh man I want those tutorials

[@Red_Fox_Miro]

Very nice thx!

[@endangbachtiar3731]

Amazing.. Never see that space

[@TokisanGames]

Join my discord for updates on my current game, Out of the Ashes: tokisan.com/discord See pics and details here: tokisan.com/out-of-the-ashes/

[@TOnySchAnneL9000]

So open source NMS? Lit.

[@KellenChase]

Wow. Have a like and a subscribe. This is awesome. I’m about to go binge the rest of your godot videos. I’d be very curious to know about procedural generation of... random voxels... ie. Voxel1 and Voxel2. Get the random terrain generation, but within the generated voxel1 terrain is randomly placed voxel2 terrain?... rocks or gold or other random stuff within the terrain... and I’m going to play with this stuff when I get a chance. Thank you so much for sharing your work and your journey thus far.

[@TokisanGames]

Sorry missed this comment. Currently it's only practical to use one voxel node at a time. Later there might be an independent, movable voxel node. As for generating gold and items on or within the terrain, that's fairly easy to do. Just pick random locations around the player, detect if that location is within the terrain or not, and spawn it if the latter. That means it might remain unspawned until the player digs in to the location. Once they open up that section, the object gets spawned.

[@searuxianstudios9200]

Imagine a space engineers like game in godot Probarly won’t happen but still, Keen Software House uses a custom in house engine, an engine that SERIOUSLY needs Vulkan support

[@classicguy7813]

Does this have physics collisions, for instance if destroying the button of a large building will physically activate the whole building collision?

[@hidemat5141]

Shaders would be greatly appreciated.

[@jameswashington4704]

Do a shader video for godot!

[@mirceabotez]

That sandstone shader looks awesome on this kind of terrain! Did you do it from scratch or had some starting point? :)

[@TokisanGames]

Thanks. I made it from scratch and kind of accidentally. I wanted to make a sand dune type and ended up with this. In the coming weeks I'll start making tutorials on shaders in Godot (applicable to all GLSL platforms) and will show how this and the others were developed.

[@tux_the_astronaut]

Can the voxels be generated in a sphere

[@Thkaal]

Can the voxelterrain node be used as an actor? Like a space ship that gets parts blown off?

[@TokisanGames]

No. Currently it builds as an infinite, paged mesh that builds around 0,0,0 and is not movable. A separate, movable node is on the wishlist.

[@ValaAssistant]

is the Voxel Tools module free to use in commercial products?

[@TokisanGames]

Yes, Zylann released it under the MIT license, as I did with my code.

[@huahuapro]

hi, can you make a planet useing this voxel tool?

[@TokisanGames]

You'd need to write your own voxel generator that is spherical. It would only take a little code. Multiple materials is not yet supported, but you can address that with shaders, which will take a lot more than a little code.

[@huahuapro]

@@TokisanGames thanks!

[@Chevifier]

Im gonna try and repurpose this for an asteroid system🤔

[@krisrego3535]

Can anyone tell me how to get that space sky I am new in godot

[@TokisanGames]

Look in the description. Advanced shaders are not a beginner topic. Much easier to just get a static star map and set it up as a panoramic sky in your environment.

[@krisrego3535]

@@TokisanGames I still don't understand how to apply shaders in godot ???

[@krisrego3535]

@@TokisanGames Can you tell me how to get the static star map and set it up as a panoramic sky in my environment

[@TokisanGames]

@@krisrego3535 Look online for a free hdri star map. Then add it as a panoramic sky to your environment. Under sky select panoramic sky instead of procedural. docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/tutorials/3d/environment_and_post_processing.html

[@lizardrain]

The only issue is that the "pop in" is a little too obvious.

[@TokisanGames]

Pop in? I don't understand.

[@lizardrain]

The LOD. As you move forward the terrain up ahead changes suddenly.

[@TokisanGames]

@@lizardrain ah, yes.

[@Reneator]

But isnt this a standard problem for voxel based games? Do you know examples, where the lod is handled well in a voxel game? (honest question)

[@TokisanGames]

@@Reneator All long view distance games need LOD, voxel or no since voxels get polygonised. The difference between each LOD here could be more fine grained. But consider this all alpha software.

[@calmarley1957]

Horrible, is Minecraft... Lol