voxeling

See INSTALL.md for installation instructions.

The Latest News

Refactoring into ES Modules is done. Current branch is "main", check "master" for the old code.

We have a new set of textures that I'm free to distribute. Some were created by a graphic designer (the good ones), others were created by me to finish the job (the not-so-good ones). Previously I recommended some bdcraft textures which I wasn't free to distribute.

If you want to see what I'm working on, I occasionally make videos at Relaxing With Code on YouTube. Specifically in the Voxeling playlist.

Introduction

Inspired by voxel-engine and voxel.js, this is a multiplayer sandbox (like Minecraft creative mode) implemented in WebGL with very few dependencies. Very much a work in progress.

Demo: https://voxeling.greaterscope.com. Use Google Chrome (not Chromium) as it provides the smoothest experience, expecially on Linux.

Project blog: https://blog.alanszlosek.com/tags/voxeling/

Player skins from:

• https://github.com/maxogden/voxel-client
• https://github.com/deathcap/avatar

Gameplay Features

• Multiplayer, with maxogden, substack and viking skins
• Block creation and destruction (batch operations via click-and-drag)
• Jumping and flying
• First-person, third person camera views
• Building materials and material picker dialog
• Gamepad support (90% complete)
• Adjustable draw distance (change it according to your GPU speed and memory)
• World state can be saved to files, mysql or mongodb

What I'm working on

Currently

• Dragon model
• Physics+collision detection re-work in preparation for NPC animals
• Optimizations, always and forever

Perhaps in the Future

• Point light sources and shadow mapping

Technical Features

• Client and Server architecture
• Simple physics engine for player movements
• My own "rectangle merge" meshing algorithm
• Sample world generators
• Websocket connection for chat messages, player positions, world changes
• Chunk data is stored and transferred with gzip compression
• Relatively flat architecture means it's easy to get a WebGL handle and the inverse camera matrix for drawing
• All IO and chunk meshing is done in a web worker, which keeps the framerate very high
• Directional lighting
• Day and night cycle (still needs some love)

See it in action in the demo (Google Chrome or Firefox): https://voxeling.greaterscope.com

Or follow the installation instructions below to run it locally.

Installation

See INSTALL.md.

Contributing

See the CONTRIBUTING file

License

MIT License