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Contributions => Offtopic => Topic started by: xcomv on April 04, 2020, 12:32:07 pm

Title: This engine should be a xcom sequel
Post by: xcomv on April 04, 2020, 12:32:07 pm

youtube.com/watch?v=YyEKgvF3PwU
imagine the possibilities. Don't you think this engine would be absolutely perfect for an x-com style game?

Title: Re: This engine should be a xcom sequel
Post by: Nikita_Sadkov on April 04, 2020, 11:12:28 pm

There were countless of such voxel engines already. Most made by single-man team. Starting with the voxlap engine by Ken Silverman (programmer behind Duke Nukem engine). That "unlimited detail" engine was also similar to voxels, but with nearest neighoubr/point cloud instead (a far smarter approach without nasty blockiness).  Unfortunately as of yet nothing really came out of them without large funding, beside the unlimited detail engine, which was used for theme parks attractions. There was a nice open source isometric voxel engine actually suitable for an XCOM somewhere at github (it even had character animation system), but its author apparently got overwhelmed with real life problems and too ceased working on it.


For example...

11 years ago (engine is much older):

5 years ago:

Unlimited Details now:

Title: Re: This engine should be a xcom sequel
Post by: Nikita_Sadkov on April 04, 2020, 11:26:00 pm

Found it! His engine has far nicer landscape:

Title: Re: This engine should be a xcom sequel
Post by: imaus on April 29, 2020, 10:36:38 am

An 'x-com' style game? Not particularly? It'll be good for fps's, but eh, x-com's tile based nature already included loads of destructible environments.... I guess going underwater might be of interest for TFTD? I'm not really seeing it.