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Draw 60,000 cubic with DrawUserPrimitives on xna with only 20 fps-buffer problem?

I'm working on a minecraft style games on xna. I know it is not easy to draw a lot of cube with a good ratio of fps. I use the method "DrawUserPrimitive" with a buffer to draw a floor 250X250 cubes. ...
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Curious Transparent Holes Render Artifact

So I'm trying to implement "smooth" terrain in my block engine by giving each surface block a heightmap. Basically, what I do to generate these "heightmaps" for each block is I generate the heights ...
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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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Voxel terrain rendering with marching cubes

I was working on making procedurally generated terrain using normal cubish voxels (like minecraft) But then I read about marching cubes and decided to convert to using those. I managed to create a ...
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3D Texture Mapping (Atlas)

This is a pretty simple question. If I was to use multiple images in a single texture for a 3D cube, how would I go about re-using each vertex (having 8 total vs 24)? With a single buffer of 8 ...
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Minecraft style XNA game collision?

I've been trying to get this working for ages now, I can detect if there's a solid block at any place on the map and I can check how far something is inside of it, but I don't understand how to fix ...
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How do I clear up artifacts between aligned faces when using AA in XNA 4.0?

I'm working on a graphics engine that lets you walk around a world that is made up of cubes (voxel engine) and I'm having some difficulties getting the results I want. I'm not the best at 3D ...
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How does Minecraft compute lighting for it's non-block objects?

I was wondering how the creator of Minecraft went about lighting the objects (player and pickaxe) based on the lighting level around the player. I have implemented the ability to light the blocks ...
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3D Procedural Planet Generation

I was looking for some inspration for my Voxel based game I am writting and came across this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8zDgTlXso. I would like to know how to go about (or preferably source ...
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Performace problems with Voxel Engine

well, I am creating a voxel engine in C# and XNA and many posts I have posted on this site have been due to performace issues, many people suggested using a profiler to help me out. I have, and ...
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Collision Detection problems in Voxel Engine (XNA)

I am creating a minecraft like terrain engine in XNA and have had some collision problems for quite some time. I have checked and changed my code based on other peoples collision code and I still have ...
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Weird block selector selection (to floor or not to floor)?

Well, I am creating a Minecraft like engine in XNA, and since I first implemented the block selector (the cube that allows you to select blocks in 3D space) it has always been very inaccurate. Here is ...
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How can I implement voxel-based lighting with occlusion in a Minecraft-style game?

I am using C# and XNA. My current algorithm for lighting is a recursive method. However, it is expensive, to the point where one 8x128x8 chunk calculated every 5 seconds. Are there other lighting ...
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Working with lots of cubes. Improving performance?

Edit: To sum the question up, I have a voxel based world (Minecraft style (Thanks Communist Duck)) which is suffering from poor performance. I am not positive on the source but would like any possible ...