pure3d v2.4.3

Pure3D

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: There will be breaking changes and what's there is sometimes purposefully broken too ;)

DEMO

Remaining Features

See Issue Tracker

What it is:

• For DIY renderers - a generic abstraction to make working with WebGL a bit more more fun and simple, without sacrificing any power.
• Or, batteries included - a GLTF renderer with super easy API surface and functional paradigm.

How it works

See Wiki for more details

• Generic layer automatically optimizes and skip unnecessary low-level webgl calls.
• Gltf layer has strong separation of concerns and to make interop with functional frameworks, workers, and wasm a bit more organic.
• Gltf layer also uses an immutable pipeline throughout, with a diffing thing to automagically handle scene changes
• Some pure functional helpers to drive transform updates and animations (not forced into render pipeline)
• Fully exported Typescript definitions

What it probably won't be:

• A full game engine (bring your own physics, sound, input, particle emitters, etc.)
• Bleeding edge / state of the art (e.g. GLTF extensions at the proposal stage are not on the radar)
• An absolute performance beast on the GLTF side (small sacrifices are made to support the immutable approach)

What it hopes to be later:

• WebGL 2 added functionality / speed gains
• Supporting more GLTF extensions, lighting and shadow techniques, post-processing filters, etc.
• Some more simple helpers to make piecing together an engine easier (e.g. get bounding boxes, drawInstanced, etc.)

Story behind it

It's a rite of passage to make your own WebGL renderer while learning it. This is my attempt :D I also wanted something that can work more organically with declarative languages and immutable data

Acknowledgements

• Khronos, Slack ppls, and all the other hackers out there who have made this stuff possible!