Aug 10There and Back Again: A Tale of Backwards Compatibility in Babylon.jsBabylon.js is almost 10 years old. Throughout this time, there have been a few guidelines that have guided each contributor when implementing new features for the framework or fixing and improving existing ones — it needs to be simple, it needs to be performant, and it most certainly needs to…Backwards Compatibility10 min readBackwards Compatibility10 min read
Jul 27Drawing points with Babylon.js……What an exciting topic, isn’t it? Just use a Point Cloud System or a Solid Particle System and you’re done, end of story, next topic! Of course, there’s more to it than that (otherwise this post wouldn’t exist), when you add specific constraints that make the task a little more…9 min read9 min read
Jun 29Building Babylon Native for the Apple Vision ProHaving a new platform to develop for is always exciting. The last one from Apple I remember is the introduction of arm64 for macOS. With the Apple Vision Pro, we have a new OS, a new SDK, a new simulator, a new input and a totally new UX.Webdev4 min readWebdev4 min read
Jun 12Creating a Product Customization Experience with Babylon.jsMost of us have likely seen an e-commerce experience that incorporates 3D representations of products to let the user explore them from different angles or even renders a product in mixed reality to give a sense of scale in the user’s space. One aspect of the shopping experience that is…Webgl11 min readWebgl11 min read
May 30Mixing Neural Style Transfers post processing Effects with Babylon Native renderingBabylon Native is a technology that allows native applications (usually developed in C++) to perform rendering using Babylon.js scripts. This allows not only for native applications to have access to the powerful rendering techniques available in the web, but also for some really cool interactions between Babylon.js and native APIs. …Babylonjs4 min readBabylonjs4 min read
May 1How to simulate out-of-bounds viewports when using WebGPU or BabylonNativeSince joining the Babylon team last year I’ve been learning a lot about 3D graphics and a couple of months ago I got introduced to the concept of viewports. I’ve never worked with viewports before, so this new knowledge was a revelation to me, even though viewports have been around…6 min read6 min read
Apr 20Announcing Babylon.js 6.0Our mission is to build one of the most powerful, beautiful, simple, and open web rendering engines in the world, and we are excited to announce the next step forward in that journey: the release of Babylon.js 6.0. Babylon.js 6.0 brings a smorgasbord of performance improvements, rendering enhancements, and…3d8 min read3d8 min read
Apr 4Physics V2 overviewBabylon.js 6.0 is set to be released soon. Among its many groundbreaking features, the new Physics plugin is expected to be a standout addition. Today, I would like to share with you the key pillars that helped shape the architecture of this exciting new feature. Easy transition One of the fundamental principles…Webdev5 min readWebdev5 min read
Mar 9POC: The Potato Optimized CarverThis weekend, while cooking for my daughter, we decided to whip up some delicious french fries (or, as they should rightly be called, Belgium fries!). As we were cutting them up, I showed her how to carve a face into a potato — and that’s when it hit me. Why…Babylonjs4 min readBabylonjs4 min read
Feb 28Unlocking the Power of UV ManipulationHey there! Over the past couple years, I’ve been on a journey to understand how (and why) a person might want to write a shader. You know, one of those crazy programs that you pass to the GPU to have it do bonkers calculations for you. …3d18 min read3d18 min read
