Jan 18Creating Variations in Instances Using Node MaterialsOne of the main challenges for creating scenes in Babylon.js is managing the trade-off between scene complexity and draw calls which has a direct effect on the frame rate you can maintain in your scene. Too many draw calls can become a drag on the rendering performance of the scene…Instances5 min readInstances5 min read
Dec 12, 2022Canvas Accessibility and GUI Animations with Babylon.jsHello! Today, I’m writing about two very interesting new additions to the Babylon.js framework — GUI Animations and the Accessibility Twin Renderer. I built a little demo to test them out: an educational quiz! …3 D4 min read3 D4 min read
Dec 6, 2022Babylon Native in a Headless EnvironmentWhen we say rendering, we are often talking about rendering at 60fps for an application, whether it be a game or other application that utilize the GPU. There are, however, other scenarios where we might want to use the GPU to run processes that never display anything at all, such…Babylon Native5 min readBabylon Native5 min read
Nov 10, 2022Another take at decalsBefore talking about the real subject of this post, let me introduce myself in a few words because it is the custom when a new team member publishes his first post on medium! So, I’m Evgeni Popov and I’m a new (proud!) member of Babylon.js team for 3 weeks now……Webgl9 min readWebgl9 min read
Oct 28, 2022Creating thousands of animated entities in Babylon.jsRTS games were one of my favorite types of games growing up, I really enjoyed been able to control large amounts of units and thinking about strategies in real time with my friends. The idea of being able to control and entire fantasy army on an epic battle like the…Babylonjs5 min readBabylonjs5 min read
Sep 15, 2022Meet Andy, the newest member of the Babylon team!Hey all! My name is Andy and I’m the newest member of the Babylon team. This is my first blog post as a Babylon-ian (is that what we call ourselves?) so I’d like introduce myself, talk about how I got here, and give you an idea of what I’ll be…Webgl5 min readWebgl5 min read
Sep 1, 2022Space Pirates post mortemSpace pirates has been released publicly just weeks ago. It’s been a fun journey. As usual, when I ship software, I only see the bugs, what we should have done, the failures … and it’s a bit more difficult to objectively appreciate what we have done. Let’s take a minute, be…6 min read6 min read
Aug 18, 2022Node Graph SystemToday I wanted to talk about something a little different than usual. For once, I will not focus on the engine but on the underlying platform behind our Node Material Editor. Up until recently, the Node Material Editor was developed using a homemade node rendering system (built on top of…Babylonjs3 min readBabylonjs3 min read
Aug 12, 2022Getting cross platform rendering with Babylon Native and GLFWBabylon.js is a powerful web-based graphics engine that allows its users to have a fully featured engine that can run on the browser. It provides lots of useful features, from rendering to physics, GUI, input, geometry, loading and so one. The goal for the Babylon Native project is to allow…Babylonjs6 min readBabylonjs6 min read
Jun 20, 2022Performance improvement is a never-ending projectRight before shipping Babylon.js v5, we did a pass with Seb on our overall performance to make sure nothing regressed compared to 4.2. This is an exercice we are trying to do as often as possible (Raanan is even working on an automatic tool to make sure PRs are not…Babylonjs4 min readBabylonjs4 min read
