How do make this mining effect

Hello, I’m looking forward to start a new mining game project, and I would like to know if anyone knows how does this mining effect works.

The mining part starts at 2:00 in the video bellow

I believe this could be achieved by mesh deformation, but I’m very new to that.

I appreciate any ideas and/or semi-ready assets recommendations. Thanks!

This is probably marching cubes… check out some tutorials on that.

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Right, I’m with Kurt here. It’s just yet another voxel terrain engine which could be based on any of those common techniques. It’s not an effect but the actual terrain rendering / mesh generation. There are countless of games out there. Minecraft is just the one which has the most blocky look ^^. However under the hood almost all those games work on an ordinary 3d voxel grid. Another common example would be SpaceEngineers.

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Thank you for the answers!!! I’m looking forward to learn that technique :slight_smile: