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A curated list of awesome things related to Babylon.js

Awesome Babylon.js

A curated list of awesome things related to the Babylon.js game engine.

Babylon.js is an open-source game and rendering engine written in TypeScript designed to be powerful, beautiful, simple, and open. It supports cross-platform game development through WebGL, WebGPU, and the Babylon Native runtime.

Your contributions are always welcome! Please read the contributing guidelines to get started.

Contents

• Official links
• Books
• Playground
• Demos
• Scenes
• Games
• Projects
• Examples
• Links
• Forum

Official links

Official Babylon.js links.

• Babylon.js Documentation
• Babylon.js Editor
• Babylon.js Features
• Babylon.js Playground
• Babylon.js Sandbox
• Babylon Native
• Babylon React Native
• Changelog
• Community Demos
• Forum
• Node Material Editor
• Partners Using Babylon.js
• Specifications
• Social Media
  • GitHub
  • Medium
  • Twitter
  • YouTube Channel
• SpectorJS - Explore and Troubleshoot your WebGL scenes with ease
• Start Contributing to Babylon.js

Books

Books about or for Babylon.js developers.

• Babylon.js Essentials
• Going the Distance with Babylon.js: Building extensible, maintainable, and attractive browser-based interactive applications using JavaScript

Playground

Noteworthy examples of community-contributed content on the Babylon.js playground.

• 360 portal
• 3D UI
• Ammo.js Heightmap
• Antigravity racing game demo
• Augmented Reality Drum
• Basic Swimming Fish
• Basketball
• Bowling and grabbing in XR
• Bowling
• Bowling lane
• Buttons always face user
• Camera positioning on event
• Captain Dude Fishing
• Car following path
• Change color on collide
• Chessboard Demo
• Circle menu
• Collectible health packs
• Colliding and deforming cubes
• Coronavirus
• Custom button mesh
• Custom WebXR controller mesh
• Dock the boat
• Dynamic snow demo
• Dynamic text in UI
• Exploding Lofi Sphere
• Exploding Lofi Torus
• Exploding Object with Solid Particles
• Explosion on keydown
• Explosions + City burning
• Fenerator 3D with explosion
• Flight Simulator Experiment
• Fruit Ninja VR Game
• Furball Shader
• Glowing marbles falling
• Glow World
• Grab and move a ball in WebXR
• God of War NME Weapons FX Demo
• Great White Shark
• GUI follows viewpoint in WebXR
• Gun firing
• Happy Holidays 2020 VR
• Happy holidays custom font
• HERO X
• Hit the cube
• Holographic keyboard
• Hopping game
• Joint Impulse Example
• Laser Saber
• Lego Buggy Mesh
• Light Paddle
• Mallot and Nail VR
• Marble slide
• Marble Tower
• Mesh Speech Synthesis API
• Music Visualizer
• Newton cradle
• Open url by clicking object
• Pac-Man Arcade Machine in WebXR
• physicsImposter parenting
• Ping pong in 3D
• Point Cloud Morphing
• portal + gravity mechanics
• Portal
• Progressive loading of glTF with LOD
• Pulsars / Imps
• Rollercoaster
• Screen Capture and Composition
• Shattered mesh with baked physics demo
• Simple XmlLoader GUI
• Slice mesh
• Soft body physics - wrecking ball + blocks
• Solid Particle System collisions
• Space Invader
• Space Ship Battle
• Spheres change color only when looked at
• Sphere Spiral
• SPS change color on click
• StakeShooter
• Submarine
• Table billards
• Tank playground with sound
• Tap to Bounce
• Targeting System
• TensorFlow.js + Webcam Demo
• TestTowerDef2
• The Pirate Fort
• Tic-Tac-Toe
• Track with Carriage Following It (First Person)
• Track with Carriage Following It (Third Person)
• Trailing mesh
• Under Water Demo
• Velocity test on soccer balls
• Virtual Joystick GUI
• Virtual Tour Booth
• VR Rythym Game
• Watch out for swords
• Water Refraction with RTT
• Wave Racer
• WebXR Catching Game
• WebXR Physics playground
• WebXR Tennis game
• XR Goal Keeper Trainer
• XR Throw Lab
• Yellow sphere volumetric light mini-game
• Yoshi Falling Balls

Demos

Official Babylon.js demos that really showcase what it is capable of.

• ActionBuilder - Turn the lights on/off using flip switches. [source]
• Actions - A torus that goes around in a circle and changes shape when it hovers over another shape. [source]
• Amp360Video - Explore a video in 360°. [source]
• AssetsManager - A human skull. [source]
• AudioAnalyser - Babylon isn't just graphics; it's a full game engine. [source]
• Bones - A walking soldier + animated bunnies. [source]
• Boom - Make things explode with a touch. [source]
• Bump - Render a ball using bump mapping. [source]
• CellShading - Use cell-shading to reproduce a cartoon-like effect. [source]
• Charting - 3D charts. [source]
• ChibiRex - An animated baby T-Rex. What more do you need? [source]
• Dancers - Animated 3D dancers. warning: takes a long time to load. [source]
• Dancing CSG - Constructive Solid Geometry using lights and a sparkly texture. [source]
• Decals - Touch the cat to splatter it with black ink. [source]
• DiStraction - A JavaScript driving game demo. Works with a DS3. [source]
• DragNDrop - Drag and rearrange different shapes. [source]
• Espilit - Explore an entire (barebones) house. [source]
• ExtrudePolygon - Destroy your own house. [source]
• Facets - A fountain of countless balls falling onto a complex shape, showcasing physics. [source]
• Flat 2009 - Explore an extremely detailed apartment, including a fishtank and bathroom. [source]
• FlightHelmet - A realistic aviator's helmet. [source]
• Fur - A disturbingly furred bunny. [source]
• GLTF - A GLTF Alien model featuring facial animations. [source]
• GUI - An interactive 3D UI. [source]
• GlowLayer - Make a neon pipe glow like plasma. [source]
• GlowingEspilit - Espilit but with glowing effects. [source]
• Heightmap - Generate terrain using a heightmap. [source]
• HillValley - Explore a town isolated from the outside world, like in The Twilight Zone. [source]
• HillValleyVR - HillValley but creepier in VR. [source]
• Ink - Quick Demo of using Babylon.js to simulate inking. [source]
• InstancedBones - A group of soldiers marching in sync. [source]
• Instances2 - A complex, moving space engine. [source]
• LookAt - Stare at a colored ball moving around in a box of shapes. [source]
• Mansion - Explore a haunted mansion. [source]
• MansionVR - Explore a haunted mansion in virtual reality. [source]
• MotionBlur - Blur things like if you were moving like The Flash. [source]
• PBRGlossy - Physically based rendering of a battle-damaged sci-fi helmet. [source]
• PBRGlossyBloom - Similar to PBRGlossy, but with an extra bloom filter. [source]
• PPBloom - Simple post-processing. [source]
• PPConvolution - A more advanced post-processing demo. [source]
• Particles - Colorful particles erupting. [source]
• Physics - Spheres and blocks with gravity added. [source]
• Polygon - It's a bird, but how did it get so flat? [source]
• Procedural - Don't hard-code content; generate it procedurally. [source]
• Retail - Explore a small store (no stealing). [source]
• SPS - Simulate asteroids around a planet using a solid particle system. [source]
• SPSCollisions - Solid particles as confetti being raining down on a ball. [source]
• SpaceDeK - Pretty darn close to a space-shooter. [source]
• Sponza - The most famous Babylon.js demo. [source]
• SponzaDynamicShadows - A simpler version of Sponza, but with dynamic lights. [source]
• TheCar - A futuristic car parked all by itself in a garage. Too bad there's no key. [source]
• Train - An incredibly realistic train. [source]
• Tunnel - Travel inside an endless rust-filled tunnel. [source]
• V8 - A complex, moving replica of a V8 engine. [source]
• Video Processing Sample - Quick Demo for setting up a Babylon.js real-time video processing using a webcam. [source]
• WCafe - Windows Cafe is a great place to unwind and have a relaxing look around. [source]
• Yeti - A non-threatening Yeti, complete with snow. [source]

Scenes

Extra demonstrations of Babylon.js

• Minority Race - A racing game made in 2016 for a film school. [source]
• Robot Presentation - A robot gives a timed presentation, with an interactive slider to control animation status. [source]
• Sandbox - A sandbox for playing with Babylon files. [source]
• World Monger - Become a God and shape the world around you. [source]

Games

Open source games built with Babylon.js

• Alien Cargo - A WebGL 3D game inspired by the classic puzzle game Sokoban. [demo]
• Attack of the Killer Bunnies - Where bunnies go to die. [demo]
• Block - A puzzle game made with Babylon.js [demo]
• Cube Endless Runner - Cube Endless Runner is a 3D game built with BabylonJS engine on top of WebGL and HTML5 technologies. [demo]
• Defend - Procedural Cross-Platform 3D Tower Defense Web Game with Physics and AI and Procedural Sound. [demo]
• F18 Fighter Simulation - Simulation driving of F18 Fighter. Based on babylonjs + ammojs. [demo]
• Hide and Seek Demo - Multiplayer Hide-and-Seek made with BabylonJS and Colyseus. [demo]
• Light Speed Ready! - A spaceship game of gathering resources and leveling your ship. [demo]
• NeoTrap - Music-based game built with Babylon.js [demo]
• Raucous Running and Rampaging Robot Racer Rally (R6) - A fast-paced many-explosion robot racer game. [demo]
• Roll A Ball - 3D Game to illustrate getting started with the BabylonJS game engine. [demo]
• Simple 3D FPS - A simple FPS game with BabylonJS engine following Clean Code principles. [demo]
• Space Invaders - Space Invaders in your browser with 3D WebGL. Built with BabylonJS. [demo]
• Summer's Festival - Source code for the game tutorial written by capucat. [demo]
• Theasis - FPS game using the BabylonJS framework. [demo]
• VoxelSrv - Voxel browser game inspired by Minecraft. [demo]

Projects

Open source projects using Babylon.js

• 3D Tetris - 3D Tetris using the Babylon.js engine. [demo]
• BABYDOOM - Doom clone using the JavaScript Babylon.js engine. [demo]
• babylon-demo - Babylon.js demo for academic purposes. [demo]
• BabylonFpsDemo - A first-person shooter with BabylonJS. [demo]
• BabylonJS-CharacterController - A CharacterController for Babylon.js [demo]
• BabylonJS-Doom-Clone - Doom-style game crafted with love using BabylonJS. [demo]
• BabylonJSFirstSteps - You will find here my first steps on Babylon.js [demo]
• Babylon.js "magic" piano portal - An augmented-reality WebXR animation of Chopin's "Winter Wind" Étude to hang on your wall! Works on flat-screen, too. [demo]
• BabylonJS Typescript Logic Examples - A collection of small projects that show possible ways of handling game logic with BabylonJS.
• babylonjs-typescript-webpack-starter - A starter template for those who want to use the famous JavaScript 3D game engine Babylon.js with TypeScript and Webpack.
• babylonjs-webpack-es6 - Babylon.js basic scene with typescript, webpack, es6 modules, editorconfig, eslint, hot loading and more. Will even make coffee if you ask nicely.
• babylonjs-webxr-template - Babylon.js + TypeScript WebXR template project. [demo]
• babylon-mtoon-material - Unity MToon Shader WebGL porting to Babylon.js. [demo]
• Babylon PostEffect Designer - Full control of post effects adjustments in Babylon.js. Support real-time post-effect adjustments, mesh import, and post-effect data sharing. [demo]
• babylon_ragdoll_robi - Babylon.js ragdoll robot. [demo]
• babylon-steering - Steering behaviors library for Babylon.js for moving entities in the x/z plane.
• Bomberman 3D - Experimental game dev with Babylon.js and Angular 5. [demo]
• cannon-es-debugger-babylonjs - This is a debugger for use with cannon-es and BabylonJS. [demo]
• Christmas runner - A Babylon.js game made for Christmas. [demo]
• ecsy-babylon - Experimental Babylon.js implementation of ECSY.
• Epic Guide - A game about going for a walk in a friendly world :) [demo]
• fps-babylon-js - Online Multiplayer First Person Shooter with Babylon.js & SocketIO. [demo]
• HTML5 FPS - Demo of an HTML5 first-person rig built on Babylon.js and React. [demo]
• Kicker - A soccer ball game made for Babylon.js February Challenge. [demo]
• KZ Climbing - A 3D platformer browser game prototype made with the Babylon.js framework written in TypeScript. [demo]
• Molvwr - WebGL molecule viewer made with Babylon.js [demo]
• Multiplayer Babylon JS "Game" with Client & Server-Side Physics Engine - Multiplayer Babylon.js game with server and client-side physics engine synchronization. [demo]
• Multiplayer FPS-Game - A Multiplayer FPS built with Babylon.js [demo]
• nengi + Babylon 3D shooter template - A template game for multiplayer 3D shooters made in Babylon.js + nengi.js with client-side prediction and lag compensation.
• OceanDemo - Ocean demo in WebGPU with Babylon.js [demo]
• Oculus Quest Remote Desktop - Remote desktop for Oculus Quest. Using Babylon.js, React and WebRTC. [demo]
• Playlist Browser XR - Browse Spotify playlists in Virtual Reality. [demo]
• react-babylonjs - React for Babylon.js [demo]
• react-babylon-spring - Build spring-physics based 3D animation with the power of react-babylonjs and react-spring. [demo]
• Roblox meets film noir - A 3D platform game demo using Babylon.js and React. [demo]
• Space Jam: A New Legacy BabylonJS Mixed Reality Experience - This repository pairs with the BabylonJS Mixed Reality module that is part of the Microsoft Learn learning path inspired by the Space Jam: A New Legacy film.
• Swarm - A Babylon.js scene made for the screensaver jam. [demo]
• TanksBattle_WebGL_Using_Babylonjs - 3D Tanks Battle WebGL game using Babylon.js game engine. [demo]
• Tomb Raider Nostalgia - View levels and play cut scenes for old Tomb Raider games 1/2/3/4. [demo]
• VR Office Throwing Game - A VR throwing game. [demo]
• Vue-BabylonJS - A ready-to-go 3D environment for Vue.js using Babylon.js [demo]
• WebXR Depth Testbed Babylon.js - testbed for WebXR Depth Feature. [demo]
• WebXR Measuring Tape - ⚡ An Augmented Reality real-world length measuring web application built by the modification of the example being provided by babylonjs - concept of using WebXR HitTarget feature. [demo]
• yuka-babylonjs-examples - Yuka Game AI + 3D rendering with Babylon.js [demo]

Examples

Demos of Babylon.js on the web.

• Roller coaster [JS]
• Star Fighter [JS]
• Blowing Wall [JS]
• Trailing Particles [JS]
• SPS AssemblyScript Demo [JS] [AS]
• Yuka Corridor Algorithm [source]
• Yuka First-Person Shooter [source]
• Yuka Hide And Seek Shooter [source]
• Yuka Navigation Mesh [source]
• Yuka Navmesh Performance [source]
• Yuka Savegames [source]
• Yuka Tic-Tac-Toe [source]

Links

Information by developers, for developers.

• Babylon JS Day 10: Terrarium - Final in a series of lessons that explains how to use assetsManager.
• Babylon JS Day 19: Golf Club - Shows how to leverage AssetsManager to load a custom model as a VR controller.
• Babylon Native in a Headless Environment - A guide to some of the internals of the new Babylon Native engine.
• Babylon on Quest - Tips on how to develop WebXR games using a Quest headset.
• Building the Web-Based 3d Digital Experience for the Mayflower Autonomous Ship - A behind-the-scenes look at a production-quality Babylon.js project.
• Canvas Accessibility and GUI Animations with Babylon.js - The Babylon.js team introduces two interesting new features in Babylon.js 5: GUI Animations and the Accessibility Twin Renderer.
• Challenges of a web VR throwing game - DEV Community - Developer Wilco Schoneveld shares his experiences developing a VR game using a Quest 2, including the source code.
• Frame at Microsoft Build: Speaking the World Into Existence - FrameVR explains their web-based metaverse platform they demoed at Microsoft Build.
• Getting cross-platform rendering with Babylon Native and GLFW - A guide to the low-level rendering architecture using in Babylon Native.
• How to Setup Babylon + Next.js Production Build Optimized for SEO & Speed - 3Designer explains how to use Next.js to improve any Babylon.js project with faster loading and search engine visibility.
• How we published a new Babylon.js recipe book Vol. 1 - CrossRoad explains their road to creating the first book for the Japanese Babylon.js community. [playground]
• Journey Beyond The Docs - Introduction by the Babylon.js team to the officially-endorsed book.
• Mesh shattering with baked physics - Besides explaining how to use precompute physics for mesh shattering, this official blog post from the Babylon.js team shows how to integrate it with Node Material Editor.
• MR and the Web with Babylon.js 5.0 - Microsoft Learn session introducing Babylon.js 5.0 and the new Babylon Native. [youtube]
• Optimizing a Large-Scale Babylon.js Scene - Gives tips on how to render a large number of meshes and vertices without impacting performance.
• Using WebXR With Babylon.js — Smashing Magazine - Provides a comprehensive introduction to WebXR and how to use it to develop immersive experiences.
• Yuka + Babylon.js Examples - Game AI Examples with Babylon.js - A first-rate collection of Babylon.js demos, each using Yuka for AI.

Forum

Valuable and informative links from the Babylon.js forum.

• Demo Ammo Physics Scene - Explains the Mustang Demo developed with the Babylon.js Unity Exporter.
• Observablehq.com + BabylonJS StarterKit - Explains how to use Babylon.js on ObservableHQ, the JavaScript equivalent Jupyter Notebooks.
• Yuka Game AI + Babylon.js Examples - A complete list of all the Yuka Babylon.js links.