I Made My Voxel Engine Look AMAZING
I added global illumination, shadows, fog and a skybox to my custom voxel engine to make it look better than ever before !
Voxel Engine videos playlist: • Voxel Engine
Feel free to leave suggestions or feedback in the comments, I might use them for a future video like I did in this video ;)
As you know if you follow my channel ( as you should hehe ), I've been working on my OpenGL & c++ voxel engine for a bit. I did the basic rendering of voxels, then added destruction, infinite world generation and more. But even with all the features you can think of, if the games made with this engine look terrible, it won't be fun to play them. That's why I decided to work a bit on the appearance now.
I added a fog using a basic OpenGL shader, a skybox and then dynamic shadow using shadow mapping. However, shadow mapping a whole world to 1 texture leads to very poor quality shadows, so I replaced that with cascaded shadow maps which is way more optimized.
Thanks to all the support and suggestions in the comments !
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0:00 Intro
0:26 Fog
1:16 SkyBox
2:10 Sun
3:15 Ray Tracing
3:35 Shadow Mapping
4:41 Shadow Map Problems
5:39 Cascaded Shadow Maps
7:44 Sun Glare
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