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Nova3DVisualiser Wiki

Nova3DVisualiser is a real-time 3D engine that renders to the terminal as ASCII art, written in C# / .NET 10. It is a raytracer — CPU by default, with an optional GPU path (ILGPU / CUDA) at full parity — that ships with a multiplayer sample app: a full in-scene editor, a JSON world system, a rich colored-lighting pipeline, PNG textures, a real rigid-body physics layer, a multi-view camera system, and TCP networking with chat. Its whole UI — including the setup wizard — runs on the engine's own console renderer, with no external UI toolkit.

This wiki holds the full documentation. The README is a short landing page; everything deep lives here.

Documentation

Page	What it covers
Getting Started	Requirements, build & run, and the setup-wizard walkthrough
Controls	The full key reference: movement, F-keys, HUD modes, editor, chat
Rendering & Lighting	The raytracer, truecolor, transparency, tone mapping, BVH, and the multi-light system
Physics	The impulse-based rigid-body solver: gravity, collision, friction, stacking, tumbling, joints, dynamic convex-hull meshes, and the capsule player
Cameras & HUD	Body views, placeable cameras, split-screen, and the three HUD modes
World Format	The world JSON: objects, types, per-object fields, platform, lights, cameras, physics
Textures	PNG loading, UV mapping, per-primitive unwrapping, filtering, network sync
Multiplayer	Server/client setup, world sync, physics sync, and chat
GPU Renderer	The ILGPU/CUDA renderer, requirements, CPU↔GPU parity, and the BVH toggle
Self-Tests	The headless self-test suite and how to run it
Project Structure	The three projects and the key source folders

Quick links

• Repository: https://github.com/Jareltis/Nova3DVisualiser
• Issues (bug reports, ideas): https://github.com/Jareltis/Nova3DVisualiser/issues
• License: GPL-3.0 (derived from Neo3dEngine by Ivan Sobolev)