Vocksel

Vocksel is a learning project exploring OpenGL and modern C++20.
It is a small voxel-style engine prototype with custom rendering, terrain, and debugging tools.

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Features

• Written in C++20
• Rendering with OpenGL 4.3
• Custom shader + texture management
• Entity & world system (chunks, density fields, marching cubes)
• Compute Shaders
• Integration of Dear ImGui for debug UI
• Debugging support with Tracy profiler

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Dependencies

All dependencies are automatically fetched with CMake FetchContent.
No manual setup is required.

• OpenGL v4.3
• GLAD v2.0.8
• GLM v1.0.1
• GLFW v3.3.8
• FastNoiseLite v1.1.1
• STB Image
• Dear ImGui v1.92.0

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Build Instructions (Windows, Visual Studio 2022)

Requirements

• CMake 3.31+
• Visual Studio 2022 with Desktop Development with C++ installed

Build

git clone https://github.com/EllMoorby/Vocksel
cd Vocksel
cmake -B build -S . -G "Visual Studio 17 2022"
cmake --build build --config Release

Running

# Navigate to the built executable
cd build/bin/Release

# Run the application
.\Vocksel.exe

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Screenshots

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Controls

• WASD: Move camera
• Mouse: Look around
• Space: Move Up
• CTRL: Move Down
• R: Regenerate World
• Enter: Unlock Mouse
• ESC: Exit

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Roadmap / Future Work

• Expanding entities
• Improve marching cubes performance
• World Texturing
• Physics

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License

This project is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.