How to Program Voxel Worlds Like Minecraft with C# in Unity

How to Program Voxel Worlds Like Minecraft with C# in Unity, available at $84.99, has an average rating of 4.4, with 135 lectures, 1 quizzes, based on 1722 reviews, and has 10060 subscribers.

You will learn about Build a cube-based geometric world like that generated in Minecraft. Navigate and manipulate discrete values in 3d space. Build and skin meshes from scratch using C#. Save and Retrieve Serialised Data. Build and manage a voxel data structure. This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone interested in how to put together a blocky voxel world like Minecraft. or Anyone interested in building and skinning geometry in a virtual world through code. or Anyone who loves Minecraft and is interested in the complexities that go on behind the scenes. or Anyone interested in expanding their Unity technical skills with respect to manipulating geometry with code. or Anyone interested in optimising the rendering process for large scale data and multiple textures. It is particularly useful for Anyone interested in how to put together a blocky voxel world like Minecraft. or Anyone interested in building and skinning geometry in a virtual world through code. or Anyone who loves Minecraft and is interested in the complexities that go on behind the scenes. or Anyone interested in expanding their Unity technical skills with respect to manipulating geometry with code. or Anyone interested in optimising the rendering process for large scale data and multiple textures.

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Summary

Title: How to Program Voxel Worlds Like Minecraft with C# in Unity

Price: $84.99

Average Rating: 4.4

Number of Lectures: 135

Number of Quizzes: 1

Number of Published Lectures: 128

Number of Published Quizzes: 1

Number of Curriculum Items: 136

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 129

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Build a cube-based geometric world like that generated in Minecraft.

Navigate and manipulate discrete values in 3d space.

Build and skin meshes from scratch using C#.

Save and Retrieve Serialised Data.

Build and manage a voxel data structure.

Who Should Attend

Anyone interested in how to put together a blocky voxel world like Minecraft.

Anyone interested in building and skinning geometry in a virtual world through code.

Anyone who loves Minecraft and is interested in the complexities that go on behind the scenes.

Anyone interested in expanding their Unity technical skills with respect to manipulating geometry with code.

Anyone interested in optimising the rendering process for large scale data and multiple textures.

Target Audiences

Anyone interested in how to put together a blocky voxel world like Minecraft.

Anyone interested in building and skinning geometry in a virtual world through code.

Anyone who loves Minecraft and is interested in the complexities that go on behind the scenes.

Anyone interested in expanding their Unity technical skills with respect to manipulating geometry with code.

Anyone interested in optimising the rendering process for large scale data and multiple textures.

All New Content Added for Unity 2020+

Did you know that there is not one single cube used in Minecraft? Have you ever looked at Minecraft and wondered, “How did they build it?” – a great thing to ponder, it is.  If you haven’t and think that programming a whole bunch of cubes is child’s play, then think again. On the surface Minecraft looks as though it would be a simple world to recreate in Unity. Start placing cubes around a scene and see how far you get before the frame-rate grinds to a mind-numbing halt.  So wonder and fret no longer, as this course reveals the secrets of programming and rendering procedurally-generated voxel worlds, like Minecraft, with C# in Unity.

In this course, Penny teaches all the invaluable skills you will require to build a blocky world from scratch using her internationally acclaimed teaching style and knowledge from over 30 years working with games and graphics.  But hold on tight as you’ll be taken on a journey across the computer graphics realm as it is taught to post-graduate university students. Through detailed descriptions and hands-on workshops examining all you need to know about 3d data structures, building meshes from scratch, using noise algorithms to generate terrain features and caves, and texturing blocks you will be programming your own world in no time.

Learn how to program and work with:

voxels

custom built polygons and meshes

vertices and normals

UV mapping

texture atlases

parallel processing and the Unity Job System

Unity’s MeshAPI for parallel mesh creation

Perlin noise

infinite terrain generation

loading and saving data

Contents and Overview

After getting a little experience in why it’s such a bad idea to build a Minecraft type world using cubes, you’ll start following along with Penny, exercise after exercise, toward the end of building your very own and unique blocky terrain.

You’ll begin by dissecting a cube and examining its fundamental parts from vertices, to normals, to texture mapping.  Armed with this knowledge, you will then begin writing code that redefines the cube and makes it far more efficient to draw as a terrain component.  You’ll then bring these pseudo-cubes together to form chunks, to optimise rendering performance. Once you’ve worked on creating a solid world of chunks you will then learn about smooth noise and a little fractal geometry will be introduced to assist you in carving out realistic landscape features including caves.

With terra-firma to stand on, you’ll next add a player character and start exploring the new world.  To prevent you falling off, you will also start working on the logic to build the world around you in real-time, out to infinite boundaries.

When you are done with exploring, it will be time to start digging and building.  It’s in this part that you will learn how to add and remove blocks at the click of a button to further mould the terrain to your liking. 

Finally, you’ll cover the dynamics of adding flowing water, falling sand and start working on the logic for creating your very own biomes.

What students are saying about this course:

Hi! I wanted to thank you and compliment you for the Minecraft Unity course. I’ve been a (web) programmer for 20 years. After so long creating somewhat boring work I’m excited to make games. My interest is in creating procedurally generated, complex worlds. Learning about Minecraft, therefore, seemed like a good idea.

Love the amount of detail Penny goes into! Not too little, not too much, she manages to hit the sweet spot that gets you a deep understanding of what’s going on, coupled with the ability to jump in with confidence and start doing things yourself. VERY pleased with my course purchase, and look forward to more by her!

Clear, concise, introduction and extension of concepts required to efficiently generate Minecraft style worlds, including Perlin noise and fractal Brownian motion.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome

Lecture 2: Join the H3D Student Community

Lecture 3: Contacting H3D

Lecture 4: FAQs

Lecture 5: Voxels

Lecture 6: 3D Array and Data Management

Lecture 7: Why You Cant Build Minecraft with Cubes

Lecture 8: Cube World Challenge

Chapter 2: How to Build a Block

Lecture 1: The Anatomy of a Cube

Lecture 2: How to Build a Quad Part 1

Lecture 3: How to Build a Quad Part 2

Lecture 4: How to Build a Cube Part 1

Lecture 5: How to Build a Cube Part 2

Lecture 6: Merging Meshes Part 1

Lecture 7: Merging Meshes Part 2

Lecture 8: Texturing Quads and Blocks

Lecture 9: Creating Block Types and Assigning Textures

Chapter 3: How to Build a Chunk

Lecture 1: How to Put a Chunk Together Part 1

Lecture 2: How to Put a Chunk Together Part 2

Lecture 3: How to Put a Chunk Together Part 3

Lecture 4: How to Put a Chunk Together Part 4

Lecture 5: Getting to Know the Block Neighbours

Lecture 6: Drawing only Visible Quads

Lecture 7: Adding Air

Chapter 4: Sculpting a Landscape

Lecture 1: The Theory of Noise

Lecture 2: Graphing Noise

Lecture 3: Fractal Brownian Motion

Lecture 4: Adding Heights to a Chunk

Chapter 5: How to Build a World

Lecture 1: Making Chunk Adjustments for World Use

Lecture 2: The World Class

Lecture 3: Building the World with a Co-routine

Lecture 4: Exploring the World on Foot

Lecture 5: Loading with a Progress Bar

Lecture 6: Switching Camera Control

Chapter 6: Creating Layers

Lecture 1: Graphing More Perlin Noise

Lecture 2: Placing Grass On Top

Lecture 3: Preparing for Multiple Layers

Lecture 4: Adding a Layer with Probability

Lecture 5: Defining a Seam of Minerals

Lecture 6: Three Dimensional Perlin Noise

Lecture 7: Graphing 3D Perlin Noise

Lecture 8: Adding Caves Into the Chunks

Lecture 9: Bedrock

Chapter 7: Player Interaction

Lecture 1: Building by the Column

Lecture 2: Expanding the World with Player Movement Part 1

Lecture 3: Expanding the World with Player Movement Part 2

Lecture 4: Expanding the World with Player Movement Part 3

Lecture 5: Hiding Chunks

Lecture 6: Processing Blocks in Parallel

Lecture 7: Building in the Background

Lecture 8: Something went wrong on the way to the core.

Chapter 8: Mining and Construction

Lecture 1: Digging Holes Part 1

Lecture 2: Digging Holes Part 2

Lecture 3: A Blocking Building Menu

Lecture 4: Building Blocks

Lecture 5: Building Across Chunks

Lecture 6: Decals and Secondary UVs

Lecture 7: Adding Secondary UVs to a Quad

Lecture 8: Parallel Processing of Meshes with Two Sets of UVs

Lecture 9: Breaking Blocks

Lecture 10: Healing Blocks

Chapter 9: Saving and Loading

Lecture 1: Serialising World Data

Lecture 2: Extracting World Data

Lecture 3: Saving to a File

Lecture 4: Reading World Data from File

Lecture 5: Loading World Data into Chunk Data

Lecture 6: Loading From File Loading Bar

Lecture 7: Hiding the Extra World

Chapter 10: Dynamic Block Types

Lecture 1: Block Neighbours and Chunks

Lecture 2: Falling Blocks

Lecture 3: Digging Beneath

Lecture 4: Fluid Blocks

Lecture 5: Controlling Flow

Lecture 6: Planting Trees

Lecture 7: Growing Trees

Lecture 8: A Tree Designer

Lecture 9: The Water Table

Chapter 11: Improvements & Extras

Lecture 1: Blocks with Transparency

Lecture 2: Adjusting for Two Meshes Per Chunk

Lecture 3: UV Scrolling of Water Texture

Lecture 4: Being Underwater

Lecture 5: A Word on Biomes

Lecture 6: Biome Challenge Project

Chapter 12: Final Words

Lecture 1: Some Final Words from Penny

Lecture 2: Where to now?

Chapter 13: LEGACY COURSE

Lecture 1: READ THIS

Chapter 14: Anatomy of a Cube

Instructors

Penny de Byl
International Award Winning Professor & Best Selling Author

Penny Holistic3D
Academic, Author & Game Development Enthusiast

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 19 votes

2 stars: 22 votes

3 stars: 90 votes

4 stars: 484 votes

5 stars: 1107 votes

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