Babylon JS Day 2

Today I worked through chapters three and four of the Babylon JS Getting Started guide. After working in Unity for a couple of years, most of these concepts are not new to me, just the way that Babylon JS implements them. Some things that stood out as interesting to me are

• MeshBuilder has a method called ExtrudePolygon that can be used for complex extrusions. I wonder what other methods are available… While I can create some basic models in Blender, I have trouble using tools like that because they require the constant use of a pointing device. I will happily create models via code when I can.
• Lots of information on how Babylon JS handles animations. Animations can be imported along with models and used in a scene, but I can also code some animations directly in Babylon JS. There are a handful of interesting playgrounds with sample code to check out.
• There is a handy method called movePOV that will move an object using it’s forward vector. When using this I don’t have to calculate differences in vectors based on orientation of the object I’m moving. I can just pass a Vector3 that indicates the movement from the perspective of the object.
• Chapter 4 was a brief introduction to collisions. It explained how to test for collision between two objects. I need to learn more about the default bounding boxes and if I can customize these shapes.