MagicaVoxel VS Avoyd

MagicaVoxel

A free lightweight GPU-based voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer.

Avoyd

Avoyd is a voxel editor and path traced renderer able to handle large models, and a six degrees of freedom movement Game with editable terrain

Landing page //
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Avoyd Voxel Editor UI with path traced procedural landscape //
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Avoyd Render - Minecraft map Greenfield City imported, edited to add fog, and rendered in Avoyd //
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Avoyd Render - Minecraft map Panteão by Kintsukuroi //
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Avoyd Render - Minecraft map Panteão by Kintsukuroi //
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Avoyd Isometric Render - Minecraft Skyrim by fonta59 //
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Avoyd Voxel Art Render - 'The Garden' by Niklas Mäckle knosvoxel, created in MagicaVoxel and rendered in Avoyd //
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Avoyd Render - Minecraft map Drehmal: PRIMORDIAL imported and rendered in Avoyd //
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Avoyd Voxel Editor - Copy/Pasting in imported Minecraft world Greenfield City //
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Avoyd Voxel Editor - using the edit tool with symmetry //
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AVOYD VOXEL EDITOR

Avoyd voxel editor is an art tool. It is able to create and work with large voxel worlds and display them in their entirety, explore, edit, render, export to polygon mesh, and use them to make custom worlds to play in.

Features include:

Extremely long view distance
World size up to 262144 voxels in any direction
Create, explore and render voxel art
Import Minecraft
Cameras:
- First person and arcball
- Orthographic
- Saved cameras for quick navigation
Edit Tool:
- Add/remove voxels or shapes (sphere, box etc.), paint etc.
- Masks
- Reference grids, constraints and symmetry
- Randomise size and materials
- Cut/Copy/Paste
- Undo/Redo
Materials:
- Up to 65536 materials
- Physically based properties: diffuse, metallic, emissive, and transparency with refraction, absorption and scattering
- Presets: metals, glass, water, ice, cloud, smoke, fire etc.
- Custom Materials
Light and Atmosphere:
- Physically based
- Procedural generation
Render:
- High quality images path tracing with OIDN denoising.
- High Dynamic Range hdr and OpenEXR exr, jpg and png
- Custom image size and aspect ratio up to 16k x 16k pixels
- DoF
Import
- vox from voxel editors like MagicaVoxel
- mca, nbt from Minecraft
- jpg, png, tga as heightmaps and materials (colour palettes)
- Raw 3D Bin Arrays
Export:
- vox
- obj for 3D modelling tools like Blender, and game engines like Unreal, Godot and Unity
- hdr, exr, jpg, png
Repair some corrupted vox files
Online documentation and Tutorials
Free permissively licensed voxel models

AVOYD GAME

Avoyd is a voxel game with six degrees of freedom movement. The entire terrain is editable. Development is in progress.

MagicaVoxel

Website: ephtracy.github.io
Pricing URL: -
$ Details: -
Platforms: -
Release Date: 2015 May
Categories: #3D #Game Development #Digital Drawing And Painting #Game Engine

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Avoyd

Website: avoyd.com
Pricing URL: Official Avoyd Pricing
$ Details: freemium $14.5 / One-off (Commercial Use - Full Feature - Free Updates - Beta Access)
Platforms: Windows
Release Date: 2017 February
Categories: #3D #Game Development #Digital Drawing And Painting #Game Engine

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MagicaVoxel features and specs

No features have been listed yet.

Avoyd features and specs

Voxel Editor: Yes
Voxel Renderer: Yes

MagicaVoxel videos

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MagicaVoxel Overview

Avoyd videos

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Avoyd Voxel Editor - Import Minecraft Maps, Export to Blender

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to MagicaVoxel and Avoyd)

MagicaVoxel

Avoyd

3D

85 85%

3D

15% 15

Game Development

81 81%

Game Development

19% 19

Digital Drawing And Painting

77 77%

Digital Drawing And Painting

23% 23

Photos & Graphics

100 100%

Photos & Graphics

0% 0

Questions and Answers

As answered by people managing MagicaVoxel and Avoyd.

What's the story behind your product?

Avoyd's answer:

Avoyd started out in 1999 as a multiplayer first person shooter with a fully modifiable voxel world, arguably the first such type of game. Many of our early players were mainly interested in building structures with our game, and so when we came back to making a modern version of Avoyd we decided to put a strong focus on the Voxel Editor.

What makes your product unique?

Avoyd's answer:

Avoyd Voxel Editor supports extremely large voxel worlds. It can import and renders entire Minecraft worlds as voxels.

How would you describe your primary audience?

Avoyd's answer:

Minecraft map makers and modders, along with voxel artists who want to assemble and render large scenes or export to mesh for use in Games or 3D content tools with physically based materials.

Which are the primary technologies used for building your product?

Avoyd's answer:

Avoyd runs on our in-house voxel game engine written in C++ using:

OpenGL (and soon Vulkan).
GLFW for the platform windowing layer.
Dear ImGui for the graphical user interface.
enkiTS our open source multithreaded task system.
Runtime Compiled C++ a C++ programming technique we developed for iterative development.

For a full list of technologies used in Avoyd see our FAQ.

Voxels in Avoyd are compressed with our proprietary enkiOT voxel octree technology, which is also used for ray casting. The enkiOT library is used in the Mercuna AI 3D Pathfinding middleware and has been shipped in a number of AAA titles over the years.

Who are some of the biggest customers of your product?

Avoyd's answer:

Mercuna - AI navigation for games
kintsukuroi - Minecraft terrain creator
Meowbeard - Minecraft maps creator

User comments

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Reviews

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MagicaVoxel Reviews

FAQ: What are the differences between Avoyd and MagicaVoxel?

Some things you can do in Avoyd that you can't do in MagicaVoxel: World size up to 26k voxels a side. No limit on the number of voxels other than memory. 64k materials (vs. 255 in .vox). Compressed .avwr voxel files, ~10 times smaller than .vox for large files. Import Minecraft maps .mca and .nbt schematics. Export to .hdr and .exr with image sizes up to 16k a side. Export...

Source: www.avoyd.com

Avoyd Reviews

FAQ: What are the differences between Avoyd and MagicaVoxel?

Avoyd is only available on Windows. We do not plan to port Avoyd to Mac OS, Linux nor consoles for the foreseeable future.

Source: www.avoyd.com

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, MagicaVoxel seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 57 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

MagicaVoxel mentions (57)

I spent 4 months building Kharkiv in Minecraft
You should check out this software: https://ephtracy.github.io/ You can build 3d models with blocks and even export them to minecraft. Source: 10 months ago
Update on Vox Uristi: A voxels export tool to make 3D rendering of fortresses
Hey there, I posted about Vox Uristi a while ago at the beginning of the development, and it's close to be feature complete - so here is an update. Vox Uristi is a tool to export fortresses in 3D models that can be opened in Magica Voxel to make renders. Blind made a nice video explaining the process. It relies on DFHack, and it's free and open source. Source: 11 months ago
is magicavoxel safe?
Also want to confirm that you're downloading it from the official website https://ephtracy.github.io/ and not anywhere else. Source: 11 months ago
Avoyd 0.15.0 Full Release: MagicaVoxel .vox Export, Improved Denoiser and Fixes
You can use the new export to MagicalVoxel .vox feature to export Avoyd worlds to the .vox format for use in MagicaVoxel along with other programs which support .vox such as Qubicle, IOLITE voxel game engine, RPG in a Box, Idu, Teardown and more. Source: 12 months ago
Build | Tank | Mod: Chisels and Bits - Small Blocks
So use multiple blocks. Or even better, use a different tool that integrates with MagicaVoxel. Source: about 1 year ago