3D Texture Filled with Voxel Lighting
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I have successfully transferred lit voxel data into a 3D texture. The texture is now being used to display the lighting at each voxel. Soft edges are appearing due to linear filtering in the texture. To achieve this, I used an OpenGL 4.2 feature which allows you to write values into any arbitrary position in a texture. This could also be used for motion blur or fluid simulations in the future. However, since Mac support for OpenGL only goes up to 4.1, it means we cannot use real-time GI on a Mac, unless a separate workaround is written to handle this, or unless a renderer is written using Vulkan / Metal. At the time I am going to stick with OpenGL, because it would be too hard to implement an experimental new architecture with an API I don't know much about.
Now that we have our lit voxel 3D texture it should be possible to generate mipmaps and begin cone tracing to simulate global illumination.
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