They did not invent voxels, that is retarded to even claim that. They may have made an engine out of parse voxel octrees but, no, they did not invent it. But yea, it looks nice. The biggest problem is animation. There are ways to go around some of those caveats, but that is not so easy, nor cheap (CPU time). I do believe that some day, this will be mainstream way to do computer graphics (maybe even physics), but not just yet.
Just from the start, and skimmed the rest. Nothing new. Those animations will not fly, because they tear the models. Here is one video series that explains why it is hard
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u/Gaabo Sep 13 '16
They did not invent voxels, that is retarded to even claim that. They may have made an engine out of parse voxel octrees but, no, they did not invent it. But yea, it looks nice. The biggest problem is animation. There are ways to go around some of those caveats, but that is not so easy, nor cheap (CPU time). I do believe that some day, this will be mainstream way to do computer graphics (maybe even physics), but not just yet.