Univerxel/TODO.md

Milestones

Hello world

Released as 0.0.1: Pre alpha 1

• From the ground up cleanup

System

• [~] Dependencies updater
  • Tracy
  • ImGui
• Compile time
  • Warnings
  • Unit build
  • Ninga
  • Clang
• CI build
  • CMake package
  • GitLab CI
• Platforms
  • Linux
  • Windows
    • Mingw: requires picotls, picoquic and FastNoise compatibility
  • MacOS
• Launcher / Updater
• Review documentation
  • Code cleanup
  • Proper wiki
• Yaml config
• I18L

Data

• Element hierarchy
  • Collide
  • Soft part break
  • Relative position
  • Rotate
  • Merge World and Entities
  • Galaxy
    • Orbit system
    • Gravity referential
• Edits
  • More shapes
  • Anchor
• Multi-block system
• Cross chunk structure
• Generation
  • SIMD
    • Dynamic SIMD level libs
    • https://github.com/Auburn/FastNoise2/releases
    • Double precision
  • Surface features
  • Biomes
    • https://imgur.com/kM8b5Zq
    • https://imgur.com/a/bh2iy
    • https://speciesdevblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/biomemap.png
• ECS
• Inventory
• Octree
  • Surface aware LOD
• Level converter
  • Minecraft import
  • Base unit size change
• Local generation prediction
• Modding API

Graphics

• Disable VK for now
• Slash screen
• Proper UI
  • Pause menu
  • Start menu
  • Using texture pack
  • FontAwesome (https://github.com/juliettef/IconFontCppHeaders)
• Define standard unit size
• Visual debug
  • Chunk / Region border
  • Area box
  • Collision overview
• Effective occlusion culling
  • Cast from chunk center
• Curvature
  • CubeSphere
    • Area corrected CubeSphere
    • Corrected Normals
    • Surface curvature
    • Curvature aware frustum
  • Healpix

Raster

• https://www.iquilezles.org/www/index.htm
• [~] 8 for 1 contouring problem
• Merge stochastic and triplanar
  • https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/terrain/microsplat-96478
  • https://www.youtube.com/user/slipster216/videos
• Biplanar
• Distance resampling
• Tesselation
• Planet scale LOD (using chunk level average)
• Hard shadow
• Ambiant occlusion
• World lights
• HDR
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iikdcAA7cww
  • Toon shading
  • Eye adaptation
  • GLSL gamma correction
    • https://github.com/skurmedel/shaders/blob/master/glsl/gamma_correct.glsl
• Post processing
  • https://learnopengl.com/Advanced-OpenGL/Anti-Aliasing
  • Bloom
• Procedural Skybox
• Deferred
• Cascaded shadow maps
• Avoid transparent back-face
• Translucency
  • Back-face depth based
• Contouring service

Ray

• All of it
• Probably v2

Network

• QUIC protocol
• Use in memory protocol
  • replace server_handle
• Private messages
• Commands
• [~] Authentication
• Clean kick