Scalar Mine

Scalar Mine is a browser-based terrain mining prototype built with Svelte, Vite, and Three.js. It generates chunked scalar-field terrain, lets you dig smooth holes into the ground, and remeshes edited chunks in the background with a worker pool.

The terrain is SDF-like: solid ground and empty space are represented as a density field, and digging subtracts smooth spherical edits from that field. Chunks are rebuilt from the density == 0 surface, which avoids mesh boolean artifacts and keeps holes clean.

Features

• Infinite-feeling chunked terrain around the player
• Smooth spherical digging with a visible brush preview
• Capsule character movement and terrain collision
• Camera collision that avoids clipping through the ground
• Background chunk meshing with ?pool=false available for sync-mode debugging

Controls

• WASD move
• Space jump
• Shift sprint
• Mouse move to look after pointer lock
• Left click dig
• Mouse wheel changes brush size
• Shift + mouse wheel zooms the camera

Run

npm install
npm run dev

Open the local Vite URL in your browser. Use ?pool=false to disable worker pools for comparison.