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Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2013-08-12 · latest 2024-08-05

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  1. We investigated this many years ago: https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/ 1. It works just fine for basic 3D functionality, but has limited support for tricks like fog FX etc. WebGL is actually quite capable when combined with…
    comment by Joel_Mckay · 2024-08-05 · in Show HN: Free e-book about WebGPU Programming
  2. You can see a cross-Browser WebGL Game Engine here: https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js In general, the tradeoffs are: * WebGL is not always available and enabled in all browsers * Spacial Audio effects and formats are inconsistent…
    comment by Joel_Mckay · 2023-02-26 · in WebGL2 Fundamentals
  3. If you want to learn more about 3d engines (game or rendering), I would recommend BabylonJS: https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js It has fairly good docs: http://doc.babylonjs.com/ as well as an active forum for developers and users:…
    comment by Flux159 · 2017-11-09 · in Ask HN: Which TypeScript codebase should I study to get better?
  4. …do it is "gl.TEXTURE0 + channel" instead of creating the string to index in the proper constant). https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/blob/master/src/baby... As for the broken cache, I think it was Engine._activeTexturesCache;…
    comment by jeremiep · 2017-01-03 · in Three.js editor
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    BabylonJS – A JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML 5 and WebGL
    story by fenomas · 2015-04-07 · 15 comments
  6. Its on GitHub https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js
    comment by paultyng · 2013-08-12 · in Babylon.js: JS framework for building 3D games with HTML5 and WebGL
  7. …(full disclosure: I work at MS.) > Not open source Looks like the source code is available at https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js under the "Microsoft Public License" which has been certified by the Open Source Initiative as an open…
    comment by mtinkerhess · 2013-08-12 · in Babylon.js: JS framework for building 3D games with HTML5 and WebGL
  8. It is open sourced under Microsoft Public License: https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js According to the Free Software Foundation, it is a free software license but not compatible with the GNU GPL.
    comment by ks · 2013-08-12 · in Babylon.js: JS framework for building 3D games with HTML5 and WebGL