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Going the Distance with Babylon.js

By : Josh Elster
Book Image

Going the Distance with Babylon.js

By: Josh Elster

Overview of this book

Babylon.js allows anyone to effortlessly create and render 3D content in a web browser using the power of WebGL and JavaScript. 3D games and apps accessible via the web open numerous opportunities for both entertainment and profit. Developers working with Babylon.js will be able to put their knowledge to work with this guide to building a fully featured 3D game. The book provides a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running, and productive in no time. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and links to fully working self-contained code snippets, you’ll start by learning about Babylon.js and the finished Space-Truckers game. You’ll also explore the development workflows involved in making the game. Focusing on a wide range of features in Babylon.js, you’ll iteratively add pieces of functionality and assets to the application being built. Once you’ve built out the basic game mechanics, you’ll learn how to bring the Space-Truckers environment to life with cut scenes, particle systems, animations, shadows, PBR materials, and more. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to structure your code, organize your workflow processes, and continuously deploy to a static website/PWA a game limited only by bandwidth and your imagination.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Building the Application
7
Part 2: Constructing the Game
13
Part 3: Going the Distance

Incorporating 3D Content into a Website

When it comes to understanding how to make Babylon.js work in real-world, customer-centric business scenarios, there aren’t many people more knowledgeable about the topic than Andrei, who posts to the BJS community forums under the name of “Labris.” As a senior 3D developer at MetaDojo (https://metadojo.io), he satisfies and delights clients with 3D experiences built to spec. Not content with just talking about how to build and create with Babylon.js, Andrei is also the creator of the BabylonPress site (https://babylonpress.org), which serves as a showcase of different examples and patterns that use BJS in conjunction with the WordPress CMS.

Babylon.js and CMS

Babylon.js lets us build very complex JS 3D applications from scratch. At the same time, there are a lot of cases when we need to integrate Babylon.js into an already existing website with CMS – an application that enables users to create, edit, publish...