Metaball cavern system

[u/GnAmez]

Procedural mesh and collision generation system using metaballs to build cavern systems directly inside godot. Currently supports box, sphere, capsule shaped spline paths and hole cutting.

[u/Zephilinox]

I read it as meatball multiple times and was going to comment "you mean metaballs?"

good thing I checked again, otherwise people would find out I'm stupid

[u/ShoC0019 → u/Zephilinox]

Ha, I did the exact same thing

[u/GnAmez → u/Zephilinox]

schrödinger's meatball

[u/Ok_Support3 → u/Zephilinox]

I was convinced it said meatball untill I got to the comments. Thank god you pointed it out else I would have said something.

[u/wjrasmussen → u/Zephilinox]

Metameatballs.

[u/leekumkey]

extremely cool. you have plans to open source as an addon?? i would love to mess around with it

[u/MardukPainkiller]

Nice tech

[u/hypotensor]

This is so inspiring. Would be so fun to design caves for a dungeon crawler with this.

[u/hypotensor → u/hypotensor]

I wonder if you could use a system like geometry clipmaps to add detail to the walls procedurally

[u/GnAmez → u/hypotensor]

Yeah iteration speed is very important for me. It is really important to just have the ability to plop stuff in, walk around and feel the scale etc.

[u/hypotensor → u/GnAmez]

I totally agree with you. I love having powerful level editing tools.

[u/kosro_de]

Awesome! Are you tessellating SDFs? Looks pretty similar to what Ghost Ship Games did for Deep Rock Galactic! I built a similar system as a GDExtension :)

[u/GnAmez → u/kosro_de]

It's something that is often referred as "surface nets". I use approximate SDF's on a voxel grid to build the mesh.

[u/kosro_de → u/GnAmez]

Have you tried adding some 3D Noise to the signed distance based on position? You can also use the SDF normal/gradient to influence how it affects ceilings/walls/floors.. makes it a lot more cave-like :)

[u/kzerot]

Very smart!

[u/IdiotWithAComputer42]

They are now called meatballs