VoxaEngine - C++ SDL2 Voxel Engine

Added impact and particles to the gun. It has a little bit more action to it but didnt really have time to play around with any sounds or anything so its not totally 100% 😭. Still, its a lot better than the previous version in my humble opinion

Added a gun thats tied with the laser! Only shoots a single voxel in a direction with not much of an effect but the next update will be adding particles to its flight path and to the impact zone !

Added GameObjects that can be spawned anywhere in the world. They are kinda barebones but eventually I could make them interact with the world, roll around and do other stuff. I also remade the player so that it is now a GameObject itself and not a different uninheriting class specific to the player

So many fixes for ghost crashes and bugfixes 😭🙏. I also added Box2D simulation library thats compiled with the project but so far it only starts up but doesnt do anything yet. Next update which I wanna do today is a Player rework where I make it a gameobject and enable creating of another game objects that will play nice with the Box2D when I integrate it. After that I wanna give the player a gun 🥹. Hopefully I can make it today but if not I will work on it tomorrow

Reworked my openGL compute shaders to be actually expandable and good. Not only should the simulation run faster, but it can easily support more shaders than just one for heat and pressure propagation. I am amazed that it worked almost immediately 😭

Some more of bugfixing and finding errors. To at least give yall a small feature to look at, the player has been given a laser pointer !! :D. (some might even say it may look like a laser pointer for a gun ?? 👀). AND YES THE NOITA SPRITE IS TEMPORARY 😭😭

A bit late update I know 😭. Life kinda got in the way but I promise that there will be at least 10 updates total until the end of Journey 🥹. I bring you the laser :O The main thing I added is the particle generator prototype, it can be used to generate any type of particles in any way (picture a laser, a shield barrier or a hologram). the laser is just a specific type of particle generator. As I mentioned before, the particles can actually manipulate and read everything around them and to show that I made the laser stop if it sees an obstacle and dim in liquids. The laser can be easily tweaked by changing its color etc. I just kinda slapped a nice color and made it flicker a little bit but it can be more advanced than that.

I cant promise when will the next update release or how big will it be. School and work piled up a little bit and I have to sort it all out 🥲. There will definitely be a lot more and bigger updates at the start of next month.

Setting up the slightly newer particle system was quicker than I thought lol ! Similar particles (the flying sand) were already in the engine but this is them working in the new particle implementation. Interesting fact: that these particles exist entirely outside the sand falling simulation. I can make them interact with the simulation but not make the simulation interact with them. The next update is probably gonna be some laser or fire particle implementation but that probably wont happen today :D

Just mainly playtesting and finding some problems/bugs to fix. OpenGL computational shaders should run a bit better and the spreading of gasses in a vacuum should be somewhat faster

Fixed and somewhat improved gasses filling in a space filled with vacuum. When the pressure of gasses becomes too low (1*10-7) they become a vacuum.
With larger distances and tighter passages the gas spreads more and more slowly (somewhat intended)

Updated voxel registry to better support custom voxel constructors, added vacuum as a voxel type. made fire slightly better