Voxel Water in c# ?

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Hello, I had a few questions and was wondering if anyone had answers. Im trying to create voxel water as seen in this video:

But im not sure how to go about it, i had a few ideas but im not exactly sure my ideas would be very efficient to do such a thing. i did try to get incontact with the creator of the voxel water in the video but i had no luck, If anyone knows how this can be achieved i would love to hear it!

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How familiar are you with voxels? It looks like a standard voxel implementation with a simple flow diffusion model. It also appears to follow the normal voxel physics trick of turning off physics once the interaction is over.

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Vowels? vixen implementation? to be completely honest i have no clue what you mean, ive only been coding for about 1 year so theirs still Alot i dont know could you please Explain :S ?

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Sorry that should have been voxels. Damn autocorrect. It reads better now.

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Ohh i see hahah i thought so but then again just to be sure i thought ide ask :smile:, im fairly familiar with Voxels the last 7 months i have dedicated to my own voxel game, i had an idea to make seperate blocks “voxels” that where just simply different heights with some sort of water shader ofcourse and then instantiate / delete the different blocks as i needed them but that would require me to code every possible outcome when a water block is placed and it didnt seem like a very efficient way to go about it, i then had an idea to create a voxel that had a float value which would be its water value and then just match up the blocks size to its water value and then make a bunch of if() statements to check around the water block and change its water value accordingly but that yet again didnt seem to be a very efficient way of doing it, but idk those where the only two ideas i could come up with that seemed like a viable way to go about making this water… :S

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You want to seperate the flow of water from its representation. I would represent water by making a voxel with an extra float parameter for its height. Then just draw it like a regular voxel.

For flow I would simply compare the height of water at each voxel with the height around it, and adjust accordingly. Once the water is below a minimum height then stop checking for flow.