Voxel Raytracing Test [GameMaker Studio 2]

Just a quick experiment in voxel raytracing. The entire scene and ambient occlusion are raytraced. This uses a heightmap instead of volume data so that it can render much larger maps faster.
The song is "My Liege" by Commodo.
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Shader Tutorials: gmshaders.com

[@yuxanne.]

your stuff is genuinely making me smile wtf, this stuff is amazing, also, is this running in real time by chance?

[@yuxanne.]

this is really making me want to make a voxel game now lol

[@XorDev]

Thanks! I'm honored. It does run in real-time, 60 FPS on my RTX 2060. There's plenty of room for optimizations and I'm using a very lazy denoiser to make this work. I would love to spend more time on this!

[@dXXPacmanXXb]

incredible, but video compression isnt doing it any favor.
Maybe increase the contrast on those colors a bit for your video captures.
Also, is that motion blur? maybe disable that as well

[@XorDev]

I threw together a lazy denoiser which is causing the motion blur and noise artifacts. With a little more development it will be much more presentable, but the current version is more of a proof of concept

[@BokehDev]

Amazing!

[@arsenbabaev1022]

Is this pathtracing? and also how to reduce noise? is it possible to shoot not random rays to achive noiseless look ?

[@XorDev]

Yes. At the moment, I'm just blending the last few frames in to accumulate light. I'm still exploring this concept, but I haven't found a good solution yet.
Voxel cone tracing sounds interesting, but not very practical here

[@BrentLoaf]

hey dude, so rn I'm in the middle of making my first 3D game in GM 1.4 (dont ask why I use 1.4 I just do) and I the biggest challenge I've ever faced with game dev is shaders, I have no idea where to start, tried to learn GLSL at least 5 different times and every time I got so confussed that I just stopped, so TL;DR no idea where to start, and I was hoping you can point me in the right direction and give me some tips on this kinda stuff, if you can help at all thank you so much

[@XorDev]

You came to the right guy. I'm writing for GMshaders.com. It has exactly what you're looking for. Good luck on your shader journey!

[@loli42]

not open source

[@XorDev]

Source is currently a mess. I may release it later

[@andrewc3294]

I just learnt to do x+=hspd so I suspect this is outside of my coding range for at least another lifetime or two.

[@XorDev]

If you're crazy enough about code, you can get here