It is the third time I have tried to make Minecraft from scratch. This time I want to add a lot of harder-to-implement features like transparent blocks, light shadows, and multi-player!

Go check out the videos on YouTube about it!

Features and todos:

• Rendering system

  • Basic features:
    • Camera
    • Texture atlas
    • Render block faces instanced
  • Advanced features:
    • 3D models
    • Animations
    • Transparency
    • Skybox
  • Shaders:
    • No visual artifacts on textures
    • PBR pipeline
    • Lights
    • Sky Box reflection
    • SSR
    • HBAO / SSAO / or even better SSDO
    • HDR, ACES tone mapping
    • Bloom
    • Automatic exposure
    • Lens flare
    • Color grading
    • Fog
    • Underwater fog -(todo improve)
    • Sun Shadows (cascaded shadow maps)
    • God rays
    • Fake Shadows for all light types (todo improve)
    • Shadiows
    • Depth of field (maybe blur far stuff)
    • world curvature maybe?

• Chunk system

• Multy player

  • Connection to server and handshake
  • Server can validate moves
  • Server knows player position to optimize chunk logic stuff
  • Undo Stuff On client
  • Buffering
  • Rubber banding
  • Entities

todo for shaders:

• Make water more shiny (specular reflection)
• Make water move faster
• Make water wripels a little smaller?
• Make water geometry actually move
• Sepparate underwater color