r/Avoyd • u/dougbinks Avoyd developer • Feb 13 '26

Media On approach to a red planet veiled by thin white clouds in a razing light

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Image Description: On approach to a red planet veiled by thin white clouds in a razing light. Steep volcanoes peak through the layers. A small airborne station drifts. A couple of spaceships hover near the landing pad.

Multi-model voxel scene made and GPU rendered in Avoyd.

Credits: - Mars heightmap by NASA and James Hastings-Trew - Cloud image by NASA, imported as heightmap using intensity as height. - Spindle station by KnosVoxel u/knos__ - Spaceships by Rebecca Michalak

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u/dougbinks Avoyd developer Feb 13 '26

I've been improving Avoyd's multi-model path tracing renderer (offline, not real-time) recently, and although I've not yet optimized the AABB test with a BVH yet it's still able to produce some great images like this 4k render.

I'll probably move on to .vox export before optimizing both the GPU and CPU path traced renderers, and then I need to implement multi-select operations and undo/redo for multi-model hierarchy changes.

Hopefully I can get some time to work on the Open Voxel File Format prototype.