I don’t remember why, but last night I stumbled onto this Wikipedia article about Voxels and decided to try my hand at making an engine in Flash. Voxels apparently draw fast without 3d acceleration, which is great for Flash since it doesn’t have access to any 3d hardware the computer might have. It still doesn’t run as fast as I would like but a few gains could be made with a bit a tweaking. Still, works rather nicely for a proof of concept.

Have a go!

Mouse will move around. Use Z and X keys to zoom, holding C key will show the hightmap that is currently being drawn.

Also, check out: VERSION 1; VERSION 2; VoxLap, the ultimate extension of the voxel idea.

I may release the source for this once I get the code cleaned up and streamlined a bit.

Filed under: 3d, flash by isaac on Dec 30, 20:53