@luma.gl/gltf
Standards-first glTF assets with physically based materials, animated skeletons, morph deformation,
native animation pointers, and source-faithful .gltf / .glb interchange on WebGPU and WebGL.
import {load} from '@loaders.gl/core';
import {GLTFLoader, postProcessGLTF} from '@loaders.gl/gltf';
import {createScenegraphsFromGLTF, exportGLTF} from '@luma.gl/gltf';
const asset = await load('/models/model.glb', GLTFLoader);
const gltf = postProcessGLTF(asset);
const {scenes, animator, lights, modelBounds} = createScenegraphsFromGLTF(device, gltf, {
useTangents: true,
useByteColors: false
});
animator.setTime(performance.now());
const exportScene = {name: 'Exported scene', nodes: [{name: 'Root'}]};
const gltfDocument = exportGLTF(exportScene);
const binaryAsset = exportGLTF(exportScene, {binary: true});The module preserves all 21 supported core/PBR-extension texture slots, sampler filters and
mipmaps, independent UV transforms and TEXCOORD_1, authored punctual lights, node transforms,
material/texture animation pointers, skin attributes, and animated morph targets. Generic
exportGLTF() descriptors also preserve hierarchy, skins, inverse bind matrices, morph targets,
animation clips, variants, GPU instancing, cameras, lights, and source-faithful accessors.
@loaders.gl/gltf owns .gltf / .glb parsing, linked buffers and images, Draco and
EXT_meshopt_compression decoding, Basis/KTX2 and supported WebP texture selection, typed
accessor postprocessing, feature/structural metadata decoding, and GLB container encoding.
KHR_meshopt_compression and automatic EXT_texture_avif source selection are not implemented
by the installed loader. Generic animation, scenegraph, and morph primitives remain in
@luma.gl/engine; shared PBR, lighting, and skinning shaders remain in @luma.gl/shadertools.