Program Voxel Minecraft Worlds with C# - Unity 6 Compatible

All New Content for Unity 2020+ and Unity 6 Compatible!

Ever wondered how the seemingly simple world of Minecraft is built? It's far more complex than just using cubes! This course unveils the secrets of programming and rendering procedurally-generated voxel worlds, just like Minecraft, using C# in Unity.

Learn from Penny, a renowned instructor with over 30 years of experience in games and graphics, who teaches with an internationally acclaimed style, drawing on knowledge from post-graduate university level computer graphics. You'll gain invaluable skills to build a blocky world from scratch.

This course dives deep into the computer graphics realm, covering:

• Voxels: Understand and work with the fundamental building blocks of voxel-based worlds.
• Custom-Built Polygons & Meshes: Learn to create efficient and optimized 3D shapes.
• Vertices & Normals: Master the essential components of 3D geometry.
• UV Mapping: Control how textures are applied to your models.
• Texture Atlases: Optimize texture usage for performance.
• Parallel Processing & Unity Job System: Leverage the power of multi-threading for faster rendering.
• Unity's MeshAPI: Create meshes in parallel for improved performance.
• Perlin Noise: Generate natural-looking terrain features.
• Infinite Terrain Generation: Create worlds that extend beyond the visible boundaries.
• Loading & Saving Data: Persist your world creations.

Course Highlights:

You'll start by understanding why using cubes for a Minecraft-style world is inefficient. Then, through hands-on exercises, you'll:

• Dissect the Cube: Analyze the components of a cube – vertices, normals, and texture mapping – to understand how to optimize it for terrain.
• Build Efficient Terrain Chunks: Combine pseudo-cubes into chunks for optimized rendering.
• Generate Realistic Landscapes: Utilize smooth noise and fractal geometry to create caves and other natural features.
• Add a Player Character & Real-Time World Generation: Implement logic to build the world around the player in real-time, extending to infinite boundaries.
• Dynamic Terrain Manipulation: Add and remove blocks on demand for interactive world building.
• Implement Fluid Dynamics: Introduce flowing water and falling sand for a more dynamic environment.
• Create Custom Biomes: Develop the logic for diverse and unique world regions.

What Students Are Saying:

"I've been a web programmer for 20 years and am excited to make games. Learning about Minecraft, therefore, seemed like a good idea. Love the amount of detail Penny goes into! Clear, concise, introduction and extension of concepts required to efficiently generate Minecraft style worlds, including Perlin noise and fractal Brownian motion."

This course is perfect for developers looking to create procedurally generated worlds, explore computer graphics concepts, and build engaging game environments in Unity.