Greedy meshing with baked ambient lighting
Greedy mesh generation for a voxel field
I’ve upgraded the greedy mesh generation algorithm I described in August. It now supports ambient lighting prerendered into a texture. The voxel world is made of cubes, so there are only so many ways ambient light can fall on the side of a cube, and I can prerender every combination into a texture. That also answers my worry from August that vertex-based ambient occlusion would be hard to apply to the optimised mesh.
Greedy mesh generation should speed up both rendering and physics updates a lot. Voxels go to physics as a mesh, and it’s the same mesh I use for rendering, passed straight to Bullet physics.
The previous, “dumb” mesh generation:
