Finally, I finished porting my CuBengine prototype to OpenFL, so the engine now supports more platforms instead of Flash only. Here are some screen shots from the Windows binary, showing the engine rendering the Voxelstein3D's map. Different from the old demo of the original Bengine, which is rendering a scaled Voxelstein3D's map with size 256x256x64, in this new demo, CuBengine is rendering the map with full size (1024x1024x256). This is one advantage of CuBengine over Bengine - Bengine use the raw voxel data format so it only support maximum map size of 256^3, while CuBengine can support very large voxel map with a compressed format, and the maximum size can be 65536^3, subject to hardware limits.
Destructor is the voxel based FPS game power by Bengine I made for the 7DFPS in 2012. Since Mochi Media was down, high score submission doesn't work any more. Recently, I finally updated the game and cleaned up the source code for a new release. This re-release comes with updated control, and on screen joystick for windows/android tablets. I also implemented high score submission using the newgrounds, kongregate and gamersafe API.
CuBengine is the latest derivative of my voxel engine Bengine. The main difference of CuBengine and original Bengine is that CuBengine renders each voxel as a 3D cube while Bengine render each voxel as a 2D pixel square (or 3D billboard). Besides the screen representation of voxels, CuBengine also has many enhanced features over the original Bengine, such as higher resolution, less memory consumption and supporting larger level maps. Actually, CuBengine is a completely rewrite from scratch. Currently CuBengine is written in AS3 with rendering core in HaXe, but it will be soon ported to OpenFL and HaXe.
KeyBoard
WSAD - Move
Arrow Keys - Look
Ctrl - Go Down
Space - Go Up
You can also use the on screen joystick, which is designed for touch enabled devices, to replace all the keyboard controls. To hide/show the joystick, right click and then left click the menu button "◇{On Screen Joystick}".
RealBengine is the candidate of the future version of my voxel render Bengine, it is based on software ray tracing and it has 6 degree of freedom.
However, there is almost no noticeable performance improvement from NME to OpenFL. The Win32 binary still runs at 10~15 FPS, Flash target is about 5 FPS, and HTML5 target is only 0~1 FPS, so lots of optimizations are needed. I'm planning to re-implement to algorithm in LIME/GLSL shaders for a speedup.
A free and open source voxel editor, available on Mac, iOS, Android, Windows and Linux. This one is currently my favorite, very simple to use and has all the basic practical functions. It also supports procedural generation (https://voxeltoy.com/). Compared with another popular software MagicaVoxel, I think this one is more suitable as a pure voxel modeling tool.
An open source FPS game inspired by Wolfenstein 3D using Ken Silverman's VOXLAP engine to render voxels. The game package contains a animator tool for editing voxel animations.
A voxel editor written in C#.
Source Code: https://bitbucket.org/BamYazi/voxeditor/
Note: This tool seems sophisticated, however, not much information can be found about it. You may need to contact the author for more details.
Sproxel (short for "Sprite Voxel Editor") is a 3d interface designed to let the user quickly create and edit voxel-based 3d models. The creation process and resulting geometry can be thought of as an extension to 2d pixel art.
Source Code(New BSD): http://code.google.com/p/sproxel/
VoxelDesc is a voxel editor driven by a command line with 2.5D graphics and powerful scripting.
Source Code (Artistic License version 2): https://github.com/felixplesoianu/voxeldesc
VoxelShop is an extremely intuitive and powerful software for OSX, Windows and Linux to modify and create voxel objects. It was designed from the ground up in close collaboration with artists.
An all-3D 3D terrain editor which enables you to simply interactively draw and manipulate terrains in 3D space. Since this is not based on height fields, you can easily create steep hills, overhangs or even tunnels.
Open source voxel creation and editing tool for Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun and Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 voxel files.
See also http://www.tibed.net/voxel
Small but powerful 3D editor for 3D concept art, fast modeling and sculpting. One great feature is 3D poly brushes, which makes 3D modeling like 2D drawing.
Very easy to use free 3D modeling and animation tool by Autodesk. Starting from stick figures, you can sculpt the details, paint the textures and pose your models. Available for iOS, Android and Windows.
Rocket 3F
A user-friendly 3D modeling tool which supports sculpting and mesh drawing.
This maybe the future version of my voxel based rendering engine Bengine, code name "RealBengine". Different from the current version of Bengine, which use ray-casting and is 2.5D, RealBengine will use ray-tracing and hence you will have 6 degree of freedom instead only 4. That means you can look up and down freely without any limit. The current version of Bengine can simulate look up and down a little bit using the distorted projection trick, but this is very limited - about +/-30 degree rotation around the X-Y plane at most. What's more, in RealBengine, you're working with real 3D, so most of the algorithm has been simplified because now you're using 3D vectors rather than fake 3D trick math.
And because of the essential difference in the rendering core, RealBengine will be a totally different engine and will be written from scratch in the future. However, RealBengine is not my priority for now. A similar example with source code using ray-tracing for voxel rendering can be found at: http://bruce-lab.blogspot.com/2011/08/simple-ray-tracing-voxel-demo.html
This demo was written in HaXe/NME and compiled to the CPP target some time ago. This is just a simple quick proof of the ray-tracing voxel rendering algorithm. The demo needs optimization as it is slow (about 10~15 FPS in my test). A Flash/SWF version exists but too slow now.
Bengine is still under active development. This release is actually a very old version of Bengine. Since there is no schedule for an "official" release, I decided to share this early version first.
MineCraft will be open source someday in the future (http://www.minecraft.net/about.jsp):
"Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source. I'm not very happy with the draconian nature of (L)GPL, nor do I believe the other licenses have much merit other than to boost the egos of the original authors, so I might just possibly release it all as public domain. "
But for now, enjoy this list of open source MineCraft alternatives!
2. Opencraft: http://opencraft.sourceforge.net
OpenCraftis an alternative Minecraft server, providing more advanced features than the official distribution.
Features: Scripting, griefing preventation
License: BSD
Language: Java
Finally, this one is not open source, but you can't miss it! http://ace-spades.com/http://buildandshoot.com/(based on voxlap engine)
"It's the best bits of Minecraft crossed with the fast-paced shooter gameplay of Team Fortress."
Features: Dynamic lighting, 32 players battling, CTF or Territory Control game modes
License: Closed Source
Language: C/C++
Ace of Spades is now a commercial game, but we have
Posts
