Is it possible to archive something similar to this in Game Studio:
Let's Play: Voxatron Part 1
I guess, engine should support it, to be able to work with it, or am I wrong?

I don't get your point?

Using voxels is just a form to save/arrange your level. That means, you have (usually) a grid where your things are aligned.

You can show these "voxels" by putting models on their position. (Or Sprites)


Superku and MasterQ32 showed ways to achieve that (MeinCraft/CubeX).

So, CubeX uses voxels? I've read a little bit in Wiki about Voxels, but I'm still not sure, if I got it right.

Thermite3D Voxel Game Engine

Actually I think it does.

You should note though, that CubeX does not use the fastest way to show voxels, because it is using sprites.

Minecraft always creates a mesh from one chunk, which makes minecraft quite fast.

(I think Superkus Minecraft clone did that too, but I am not sure).

But for that, you need to create meshes in runtime.

Any links to that minecraft clone made by Superku? Does he use voxels for sure? Thanks.

No, its not. A voxel is a volumetric object in the game space, its not a polygon or something similar.
And no, its not possible to integrate Voxels into Gamestudio with simple methods since they require a different way of rendering and data storing. Also, Voxel worlds take up a huge amount of disk space and they need more sophisticated culling methods if you want good speed. Thats one of the reasons early games used Voxels mainly for terrains because its easier to cull and draw than a whole game world and it was way faster than polygons back then. Now most GPUs are optimized for huge amounts of Polygons.

Author of the second video I've posted above, says: That isn't that much, or am I wrong?
And thanks for making things clear about the "Voxel", I was expecting same answer for my question.

Well, 256x256x64 isn't much, if you want a comparison its like having a cube with a 256x256 pixel texture. And while its easy to load a texture once and then use it to render every object that uses this texture, this becomes a bit harder with Voxels if you still want to maintain speed.
With Voxels its easy to interchange speed with memory usage, so if you have a few terrabytes free you can create stunning scenes with lots of details which renders blazing fast, but I guess your customers will hate you for it ^^

OK, I got it now, thank you. But will I need few terrabytes for small indie project (Voxatron for example, I've posted above)?

No, as the creator already mentioned, you only see 4mb worth of Voxels at any given time, thats probably the reason why he did use only 256x256x64. You can have the visible world entirely in the RAM with great performance and a compressed version of the world on disk.

But, you won't have many details, for example, here is an NVIDIA demo which uses Voxels and has medium details, but this small "world" alone already eats 2.7 Gb of data!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi-mNGz0YMk