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MagicaVoxel is great! Even though the program is not open source, the file format is documented by the creator [0]. For a small game I'm working on I read in th

MagicaVoxel is great! Even though the program is not open source, the file format is documented by the creator [0]. For a small game I'm working on I read in the vox files and reconstruct the meshes in-game. I can then create procedurally destructed variations by tweaking the vox data and re-generating the meshes in-game [1] [0] https://github.com/ephtracy/voxel-model/blob/master/MagicaVoxel-file-format-vox.txt https://github.com/ephtracy/voxel-model/blob/master/MagicaVo... [1] https://twitter.com/MaxBize/status/1048717357319745538 https://twitter.com/MaxBize/status/1048717357319745538

gardaani 8y ago
This is what every software should do. I don't care if software isn't free or open source, but file formats should be documented so that they can be read later or processed by other tools.
- Cthulhu_ 8y ago
  This is one of the reasons why I went with Arq for backups - it's a thing I tend to forget about, so if five years down the line the software turns out to no longer exist for whatever reason, I can be confident there's an open source unpacker somewhere.
- loudmax 8y ago
  I'd go a little further than "documented". MS Office's .docx and .pptx files are "documented" but creating a compatible reader is a major undertaking. I wish people would hold off until there's an existing open source project that can at least decode the files enough to accurately convert the files to another format. Avoid lock-in before has a chance to take root.