Voxel 3d “grid”

Question

What in your opinions, would be the best language to create a large (massive..) 3d voxel based grid in?

i.e. like Minecraft (http://www.minecraft.net/)

I note that Minecraft was created in Java, this obviously has it's disadvantages. Help me make a decision! :)

p.s. This is community wiki, so no points gained, just after opinions :)

Answer 1

The data structures you pick are going to be a lot more important than the language you choose. A language that lets you achieve locality of reference will likely have speed advantages in collisdion detection and visiblity calculations, but you can get this even with managed languages.

Minecraft is a pretty decent POC that Java can handle huge voxels worlds as long as you don't write your code retardedly :)

Answer 2

You may want to have a look at Field3D, which is a C++ library for storage of voxels (both in memory and on disk).

http://github.com/imageworks/Field3D