• Port voxel terrain pipeline to bevy's material system.
• Add emissive materials (using bloom post processing effect)
• Add support for directionnal shadows.
• Add FXAA

I’m also somewhat working on a Voxel engine at the moment based on block-mesh as well and perhaps wanted to make some pull request but before I were to do that I’m curious what exactly you see this repo being used for. Do you see it as like a general purpose voxel engine for people using rust maybe something like the Godot-Voxel plugin for Godot. Or do you see it more as of something like Minetest? Just curious as to what the goal of the project is exactly.

For anyone trying to get the world generation to work on a non-x86-target, you need to patch the 3.1.6 version of simdnoise with this commit verpeteren/rust-simd-noise@23c6905 .

I made a fork of simdnoise which does the trick for me:

simdnoise = { git = "https://github.com/merlinfuchs/rust-simd-noise", branch = "3.1.6-patch" }

Feel free to close this, just leaving this here if anyone runs into the same problem.

https://bevyengine.org/learn/migration-guides/0.9-0.10/

Cargo outdated -R shows:

Name             Project  Compat  Latest  Kind    Platform
----             -------  ------  ------  ----    --------
bevy             0.9.1    ---     0.10.0  Normal  ---
bevy_atmosphere  0.5.0    ---     0.6.0   Normal  ---
bevy_egui        0.17.1   ---     0.20.2  Normal  ---
bitflags         1.3.2    ---     2.0.2   Normal  ---
once_cell        1.16.0   1.17.1  1.17.1  Normal  ---
thread_local     1.1.4    1.1.7   1.1.7   Normal  ---

The following crates can be updated without any problems:

thread_local = "1.1.7"
once_cell = "1.17.1"
simdnoise = "3.1.6"
bitflags = "2.0.2"

Hello, have a look here
https://github.com/grunnt/falling-rust

is it possible to have something similar for 3d , example lava springs from volcanoe ? water cascade ?

Raymarching chunk bounding boxes with raymarching and instanced rendering should hopefully yield better results than mesh based rendering of voxels at the cost of more GPU memory usage but that's a fair tradeoff I guess.

I am not able to move around using the mouse on Windows 10. The camera keeps facing downwards.
It can be fixed by uncommenting this line: https://github.com/Game4all/vx_bevy/blob/master/src/voxel/world/player.rs#L23

Do you plan to turn this project into a bevy plugin, or do you intend to keep it more or less separate like a derivative engine?

I should clean my stupids hacks and use bevy's storage buffer abstraction

There is no possibility yet to make a custom meshes, only default voxels?

There's a few roadblocks preventing this from being released as a plugin in its current state:

• Expose a better resource API for managing loaded chunks.
• Add events / a way to plug in custom world generation.
• Rework the material system to be extendable by the user.

And more that I may have missed.