Our mission is to create one of the most powerful, beautiful, and simple web rendering engines in the world. Our passion is to make it completely open and free for everyone. Today is an important milestone for the Babylon.js platform. Babylon.js was named with a deep love and admiration of…

I am not sure if you noticed, but Babylon.js 5 was (quietly!) released. I’m also not sure if you noticed that we are already in version 5.4.0! Let’s talk about why :-) For those who knows Babylon for a long time it might be a little strange to see a…

Nice to meet you Babylon.js community! I’m Sergio, I’m joining the Babylon team to work as a Software engineer on the Babylon Native project. I’ve graduated as a Biomedical Engineer in 2017 (I know, not what you would expect from a 3D graphics developer, right?), but during my undergrad I…

Almost exactly two years ago, to the day, I wrote an article about my plans for an upcoming change to device input in Babylon.js. This change would take the underlying system and replace it with one that could accept both Web-based and Native input. So, I’m happy to say that…

Capturing movement so it can play back later can take many forms. From the first zoopraxiscope (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoopraxiscope) to the latest, state of the art, full body motion capture of the Avengers. Motion capture also took different form in Video game and real-time 3D. One of most known is for…

Among all the code I poured inside Babylon, I have to admit that the Node Material and its editor are among my favorites. For v5.0, we are continuing our investment and added new features that I want to detail a bit here. ConditionalBlock This was an ask from the community since…

Over the last couple years, we’ve been writing a new version of the Babylon.js engine for WebGPU. The excitement is growing as next gen Web 3D first steps in the open are just around the corner, with a WebGPU 1.0 release aimed around Chrome 102~103. In this blog post, I’ll…

Like many who are in this line of work today, my fascination with computer graphics started on this fascinating little machine called a “computer”. My parents thought this weird new tool seemed like a good thing to learn, and brought a Windows 98 machine to the guest room in our…

Let me start by wishing you all an amazing year!!! For my first 2022 post, I wanted to share how much I enjoy being a part of the Babylon community. We sometimes have ideas, actually, let me rephrase that… We most of the times have tons of ideas but…