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. Along this journey, I’ve…3d18 min read3d18 min read
Feb 16How to Take Control of Color Space in Babylon.jsThe topic of color space can initially seem intimidating because it is very broad and represents many different approaches to organizing color both in analog and digital representations. …Babylonjs19 min readBabylonjs19 min read
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. …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! …3d4 min read3d4 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. …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?) …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
