Voxel World Generation

An experiment with voxel world generation in the web implemented with HTML5/CSS technologies, javascript and three.js.

Click here to run the current version

Releases

• v 0.1 [Single Threaded, Simplex Noise, Static World Creation]
• v 0.2 [Single Threaded, Improved Noise, Dynamic World Generation]
• v 0.3 [Multi Threaded, Improved Noise, Dynamic World Generation]

How to run / build locally

• Windows: (Requires Google Chrome) Download this repo, unpack it and run .\Tools\runChrome.bat. This solves cross-conflicts (allows multithreading/webWorkers/textures) - Alternatively, use a simple static local http server (like in php, python or node's http-serve)

• Linux or Mac or Windows: Download this repo, unpack it and put it in a local server, then open index.html in any decent web browser.

Dependencies, Credits and Inspiration

1. three.js - Javascript 3D Library - Used to draw the world
2. Procedural Generation - Description of procedurally generating things
3. Fast Simplex Noise in Typescript - by joshforisha - Used to generate perlin noise efficiently
4. Minecraft - by Mojang - Inspiration on world generation