oceanmaster:

rooshoes:

this video is cool and all i guess but how do you animate dots

this has been a thing since voxels were introduced in the early 2000s, getting them to animate convincingly is apparently a pain in the ass

perhaps some combination of both polygons for animation and, uhh, “atoms” for the environment would be a reasonable next step for a published game

There’s also the possibility of going for the hybrid method - Voxel environment with polygon characters/elements, something that other voxel engines have taken on.

I think half the problem is that so many people treat voxels as “pixels in 3D *uses cubes*”, so when you have these cube-covered structures everywhere it starts becoming difficult to really treat the environments or characters in an appealing fashion.

Not to mention the whole “they are made of free-form dots and not a series of polygons that are connected edge-by-edge” thing.

Basically this shit is hard and I hope Euclideon has thought further than “let’s make shit really detailed”

Oh, what the hell, to contrast it with something actually decent: Fairlight / CNDC - Agenda Circling Forth. The technique isn’t the same (similar, but not the same), but this is an actual thing that exists. Also, over a year old now. There’s newer releases that look a lot better, technically, but I like this one the best for it’s design and music. You can always look them up.

Now, lets please stop with this unimited detail crap.