Voxl

A procedural voxel engine written from scratch in Python. Screenshots!

TODOs

• Update the directory structure.
• Engine: provide an "update"/"tick" listener that runs on another thread.
• Read about ECS. Then implement a basic/minimal ECS inspired by bevy. Thread-local, non-parallel for now.
• All docstrings what -> why
• Renderer: Implement as ECS-based, using wgpu.
• Documentation of the ECS system.
• Rewrite the ECS system to Cython and wrap in engine.ecs
• Add decorator support for registering event listeners and ECS systems.
• Engine: integrate the compute manager with the update tick event. handled by window instead of computemanager in case of headless use.
• Separate the engine into a separate repo, package the engine under that name and put it up on PyPI. Test on a win vm too (eek).
• Chunk generation with octree impl.
• Client-side rendering of these^ chunks.

Roadmap

• Generate interesting terrain.
• Implement structure generation.
• Implement true voxel lighting, on the client using compute shaders.

Usage

Install the Nix Package Manager:

$ sh <(curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon

Clone this repo and cd into it:

git clone https://n3rdium/Voxl.git voxl
cd voxl

Enter nix shell (this will "install" all deps for you):

nix-shell

Now, to start Voxl, run:

python -m src.client.main