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Cave generation with Perlin worms

I'm currently trying to generate a Minecraft like voxel terrain with 3D Simplex Noise and also want to implement caves. I found the method of Perlin Worms in this thread, which generates really nice ...
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Voxel terrain engine [closed]

Is there some voxel frameworks or extensions for game engines like Unity? I really need a system to dynamically generate voxel ruinable terrains.
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Smooth Voxel Terrain

As a personal project, I'm trying to make a terrain generator that will create terrain looking something like the Castle Story smooth terrain. If you haven't seen it before, here: So as you can ...
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Octrees and Vertex Buffer Objects

As many others I want to code a game with a voxel based terrain. The data is represented by voxels which are rendered using triangles. I head of two different approaches and want to combine them. ...
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Rendering different materials in a voxel terrain

Each voxel datapoint in my terrain model is made up of two properties: density and material type. Each is stored as an unsigned integer value (but the density is interpreted as a decimal value ...
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Efficient visualization of a large voxelized volume

Lets consider a large voxelized volume stored in an oct-tree or any other convenient structure. This volume represents, for instance, a landscape, where each block is either empty (air), or it has an ...
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C# XNA: Effecient mesh building algorithm for voxel based terrain (“top” outside layer only, non-destructible)

To put this bluntly, for non-destructible/non-constructible voxel style terrain, are generated meshes handled much better than instancing? Is there another method to achieve millions of visible quad ...
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Any ideas on reducing lag in terrain generation?

Ok so here's the deal. I've written an isometric engine that generates terrain based on camera values using 2D perlin noise. I planned on doing 3D but first I need to work out the lag issues I'm ...
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Which data structure should be used to represent voxel terrain?

According to the Wikipedia page about voxels, "[...] the position of a voxel is inferred based upon its position relative to other voxels (i.e., its position in the data structure that makes up a ...
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How to improve Minecraft-esque voxel world performance?

After playing Minecraft I marveled a bit at its large worlds but at the same time I found them extremely slow to navigate, even with a quad core and meaty graphics card. Now I assume Minecraft is ...