How should characters work? If we use skeletal animation, we could have a standard skeleton with pre-made animations. In that case the models themselves could be #lowpoly, or they could be #voxel models like in #CloudPunk.

Another option would be to use #MagicaVoxel's per-frame animation. This uses a lot of space for the different meshes, but it would avoid the need to rig the model in #Blender.

#PixelArt animation is an intriguing idea, but especially with unconstrained camera movement I think it's by far the most difficult option. Since you have to create the animation from different camera angles it does allow making shadow masks without extra work beyond drawing from a multitude of camera angles, though.

I like low poly the best. The voxel characters in CloudPunk are one of the least attractive aspects of the game. It appears #IonLands have gone to low-poly characters for #Nivalis. I think low-poly might be better for other models like vehicles as well, but I need to do some experiments to see how they look together. If characters need to be rigged in Blender anyway, it might make the most sense to have those be the only lowpoly models, while everything else is made in MagicaVoxel.

Ok, it turns out that in #Goxel you assign materials to layers, while in #MagicaVoxel they're assigned to the current palette entry.

In addition, in Goxel the color is always the diffuse color, while the emission color is set per material. So if you want a bunch of different colored lights on the same model, you'd have a separate layer per light color. In MagicaVoxel the material type is set to "emit", and the color of that entry in the palette is the emission color.

I think the MagicaVoxel approach is a lot closer to what I want. It doesn't have a Linux version, but it runs fine under WINE.

The existing .vox importer for #Godot doesn't support greedy mesh generation with materials, but I should be able to implement that pretty easily.

#voxel #voxels

I should mention the graphics: it looks like nearly all of the assets were made in #MagicaVoxel or #Goxel or some other #Voxel editor. It feels a bit jarring at first, but overall I think the style works pretty well.

I kind of wish there were more to explore. The city *feels* huge, but most of the buildings are just "cardboard" models. There are just a couple of indoor spaces. It would be really cool to use this style in a collaboratively built virtual city where you could go anywhere you could see. Have a pre-made set of materials and building blocks and let people have at it, similar to #Minecraft or #Minetest or something. #Godot has a 3d tile map editor that would probably work pretty well for something like that.

Hi I'm Achie, a hobby game dev and pixel artist! #PortfolioDay was yesterday but I'm an airhead so later post it is!

I fiddle around with #pico8 and #love2d and do #pixelart inside #Aseprite and #voxelart with #magicavoxel

I also write devlogs for all my games, and run a Review Series called PicoShorts!
https://github.com/Achie72/kofi-articles

#art #artits #pixel #GameDevelopment #gamedev #indiedev

Hey! @ephtracy creator of #MagicaVoxel and #MagicaCSG is on Mastodon!

Two wonderful tools (mostly toys for me) for voxel editing, SDF "modeling", and rendering

#voxel #sdf #render

過去作2

#magicavoxel

And the #pixel_dailies #yoyo for today in the form of Kraken from #terraria

8x8, #aseprite, PICO-8 extended palette
8x8x8, #magicavoxel

#pixelart #voxelart #3d

An apple, an orange and a banana for today's #pixel_dailies #fruitbasket theme!
8x8, #aseprite, #pico8 extended palette

#ovxelart version with same parameters made in #magicavoxel

Shattered Shield, a #debuff idea for today's #pixel_dailies
8x8, #aseprite, #pico8 extended palette.

#voxelart made with #magicavoxel
8x8x8, same palette

#pixelart #3D

For today's #pixel_dailies #tileset remakes of my #pico8 colony management project!

#pixelart #voxelart #3dart #3D #aseprite #magicavoxel

#pixel_dailies #lever submission!
8x8, Aseprite, #pico8 extended palette.

also the #voxelart version of course, sadly I couldn't find how I can add outlines there, so it's much more bare.
8x8x8, #magicavoxel, PICO-8 extended palette

Ko-fi link: https://ko-fi.com/achiegamedev/gallery

For today's #pixel_dailies #hotspring tub, a cute capybara enjoying the warmth!

8x8, Aseprite, #pico8 extended palette.

We have the #voxelart #voxel version as well, with a little transparency on the water.

8x8x8, #magicavoxel, PICO-8 extended palette.

#art #pixelart #3d

For today's #pixel_dailies #ladybug
The pixelart is a tad simple, but it was a nice process figuring it out on stream!
8x8, #aseprite, PICO-8 extended palette

Had a blast building the #voxelart one!
8x8x8, #magicavoxel PICO-8 extended palette

#pixelart #3dart #pico8

And the #voxelart version for this one as well! #magicavoxel #3dart

Made a #3D version as well!
#voxelart #magicavoxel

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/pixel-dailies-toolbox-6e95c5e4e1934647b23cad718abf64a7

10/n
- se lancer dans la #modélisation 3D via l’outil #Magicavoxel
- écrire des #acrostiches sur le projet
- faire un #memory ou apprendre quels #monuments sont déjà présents sur la #frise #immersive

PCB Raspberry mini
#magicavoxel

We released #Avoyd Voxel Editor's export to #MagicaVoxel .vox.

You can use it to convert #heightmaps, #Minecraft .mca and .nbt, Avoyd worlds etc to .vox.

Do feel free to check out our post on r/VoxelGameDev about #Avoyd #Voxel #Editor 0.15.0 release with #MagicaVoxel .vox export, improved #denoiser and fixes.

There are more details no r/Avoyd and you can even join r/Avoyd whilst you are there :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/VoxelGameDev/comments/13k4wy8/we_just_released_version_0150_full_of_our_avoyd/

#Avoyd 0.15.0 Full #Voxel #Editor is out with #MagicaVoxel .vox export, improved #denoiser and fixes.

More details at:
https://www.enkisoftware.com/p/6251138097610752