Eskil Steenberg (creator of Indie MMO “Love” - which is also a Voxel world engine of sorts) has told me that he doesn’t bother with small chunks – he just has a single Vertex Array that represents an entire quadrant of his spherical world, and to get around the massive waste of space he actually has to _defrag_ his graphics memory using his own memory management functions running on his GPU, effectively pushing all the active visible triangles together, and leaving a single large clear area of graphics memory for future triangles to be placed. This is the kind of batshit crazy engine programming I’ve come to expect from Eskil, and is not for the faint of heart.

Eskil Steenberg (creator of Indie MMO “Love” - which is also a Voxel world engine of sorts) has told me that he doesn’t bother with small chunks – he just has a single Vertex Array that represents an entire quadrant of his spherical world, and to get around the massive waste of space he actually has to _defrag_ his graphics memory using his own memory management functions running on his GPU, effectively pushing all the active visible triangles together, and leaving a single large clear area of graphics memory for future triangles to be placed. This is the kind of batshit crazy engine programming I’ve come to expect from Eskil, and is not for the faint of heart.