Doom Voxel Project

insertwackynamehere said:

i think someone pointed out in another thread: imagine 3d floors with voxels. is this plausible?

Sure is.

But since GZDoom can do real 3D floors, why would you go to that much effort and risk such a significant drop in frame rate?

Linguica said:

What in the world would be the point of that?

Being able to use it in existing source ports!

Stop suggesting that voxel models should be converted to or rendered as polygons. That defeats its entire purpose.

In this thread I've seen some great-looking voxel models. What we need now is someone who can introduce voxel rendering for (pick-up) items only, like Build / Shadow Warrior have. The source for Build is available, so you can glean some insight there. Use a basic Prboom or such port as the code base.

Then we have a working engine with voxel pickup items, and your first milestone. After this we can look into voxel models for actual monsters.

But, so far no coder has come forward who will look into this matter. so no matter how many great voxel models you crank out now, it won't matter. The efforts stops, and dies, right there. My best bet would be to convince / pester / beg / bribe Fraggle to look into this, but I understand he's busy with other stuff.

Actually, if they manage to finish most or all the items and monsters, that would greatly move coders to add them to software engines (expecially the ones with mouselook, like ZDoom and Eternity.)

Yeah...if this is fully completed, then it could be the start of a new Source Port - VZDoom (ZDoom with Voxels).

Very well done. Get some source port developers interested, these look great DooMAD.

I started a small thread to keep track of who's doing what. This is to make sure that no one does the same item twice like I already managed to do with the clip and the shells, which GhostPilot had already finished, heh.

If anyone else wants to help out, feel free to post there and claim an item. Just keep in mind that the program isn't all that great and you'll need a reasonably large amount of memory to work on bigger items. You also have to enter the colour values manually.

On 1/6/2006 at 2:55 PM, DooMAD said:

Latest work:



*spoooge*

looks nice how's the voxel project going so far?

43 minutes ago, Johnny Cruelty said:

looks nice how's the voxel project going so far?

its been since 2006 and the voxel project link is broken so probably dead but I think there is another (newer) voxel thing going on tho

but if you just like the team hell spawn version you can still download it with the way back machine

https://web.archive.org/web/20190807203611/http://www.teamhellspawn.com/voxels.htm

39 minutes ago, gwain said:

its been since 2006 and the voxel project link is broken so probably dead but I think there is another (newer) voxel thing going on tho

 

but if you just like the team hell spawn version you can still download it with the way back machine

https://web.archive.org/web/20190807203611/http://www.teamhellspawn.com/voxels.htm

there's an artist on twitter who is working on a mod that includes extremely faithful recreations of the monsters

they even streamed the process for making the doomguy

2 minutes ago, raymoohawk said:

there's an artist on twitter who is working on a mod that includes extremely faithful recreations of the monsters

they even streamed the process for making the doomguy

 

 

 

I actually thought about using this tutorial in an attempt to possible making a voxel mod for HacX

On 5/4/2022 at 2:10 AM, gwain said:

its been since 2006 and the voxel project link is broken so probably dead but I think there is another (newer) voxel thing going on tho

 

but if you just like the team hell spawn version you can still download it with the way back machine

https://web.archive.org/web/20190807203611/http://www.teamhellspawn.com/voxels.htm

The link in the first post was outdated.  Fixed now.  But yeah, I've been pretty lazy and I doubt there will be any further progress unless someone else offers to take the lead. 

GRAU's work is now the more complete project: 

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/111016-rdvox-voxelgraphics-pack-oriented-to-use-in-software-renderers-qlgzdoom-delphidoom/

And this shows great potential as well:  

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/127050-these-voxelized-doom-sprites-are-incredible/