Minecraft-Style Voxel Engine

A custom voxel rendering engine inspired by Minecraft, built from scratch in C++ using OpenGL

Features

• Infinite procedural terrain with chunk-based loading/unloading
• Placing and breaking blocks
• Transparent glass and water rendering
• Ambient occlusion lighting
• Custom water shader with vertex wave displacement
• Debug overlay

Tech Used

• C++20
• OpenGL (GLFW, GLEW)
• GLSL for shaders
• GLM for math
• ImGui for debugging tools

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/0tomdev/voxel-engine.git
cd voxel-engine

2. Compile and run

make run

Development Screenshots

Initial Terrain Prototype

Improved Graphics and Terrain

References

1. Ambient occlusion: https://0fps.net/2013/07/03/ambient-occlusion-for-minecraft-like-worlds/
2. Meshing: https://0fps.net/2012/06/30/meshing-in-a-minecraft-game/
3. OpenGL YouTube series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrATfBNZ98foTJPJ_Ev03o2oq3-GGOS2