New and with a question

[eidas]

Hi everyone,

I'm an avid strategy game fan and have recently decided to pursue game design and programming for my future (planning on shifting majors asap). Having only decided this recently, I'm completely green to programming but have a quick question for you all. I'd like to experiment and play around with the Spring Engine with an idea I've had for a long time. Has any of you created a voxel-based game in the Spring Engine? Is it possible to create a game world like the one in Minecraft where the environment is all voxel?

Not sure if all that made sense, but if any of you respond I'd like to give an early thanks!

[FLOZi]

In short - No. Springs (polygonal) 3d rendering is too closely integrated to truly do something like that currently.

[eidas]

Thanks for the super quick response

[FLOZi]

You can possibly fake the visuals to some extent (c.f. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaRUDEqz ... ature=plcp ) but it really depends what you want to do.

[AF]

Exactly which parts? You could have a voxel map but you'd need to render it yourself, and you could only destroy from the top down due to the heightmap based nature of the map

[gajop]

basically no bridges/caves

[tzaeru]

If you're completely green to programming but wish to become a programmer and a game designer, then as boring and cliche as it sounds, I'd have to suggest starting from the very basics.

For that purpose, processing.js would allow you to quickly see your code do stuff. They've an interactive sketchpad you can use.

Or just start from C++/Java/Python basic tutorials or learn from school.

[Forboding Angel]

You mean like this? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/330858688/dysis

[IceXuick]

You mean like this? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/330858688/dysis

Interesting!