Posts related to application and web development.
I don’t use ExecuteSQL as much as I used to, but this template comes in handy when I do. I use this in the Data View to jumpstart my query. If I end up using the calculation in production, I’ll replace the table and field strings with references.
I’m working on a VR side project that can be summed up as a narrative experience. The app will consist of approximately ten minutes of an audio discussion, with scene entities giving the appearance of reacting to the dialog. I needed a timeline to keep it all coordinated, so I built one. I made a…
These are my notes from a deep dive into the PlayCanvas VR Starter Kit. I spent some time going through this project template to learn how it works and to see if I can learn how to expand on it to build some VR features for my projects. TL; DR: Most of this post is…
This was supposed to be the “A week of PlayCanvas” post, but I kept putting it off. I’ve had a chance to familiarize myself with PlayCanvas and wanted to take a few minutes to capture my thoughts. When I decided to check out PlayCanvas I wanted to learn just enough about it to be able…
I’m setting aside some time this weekend to learn the basics about PlayCanvas. It’s one of the only tools available to WebXR developers that I haven’t used at all, so I’m going to change that. This is a working list of things I want to learn and try this weekend. I’ll update this list as…
It’s been over a month since my last recap post, but I’ve continued making progress. Canvatorium is starting to serve its secondary function well: being the place where I try out ideas for other projects. Lab 027 This lab was a place where I learned a bit about Clones, Instances, and Thin Instances in Babylon…
Poking around with Clones, Instances, and Thin Instances while testing out an idea. I never got around to working on the idea that caused me to investigate these features, I went to work on the Stoa labs instead. At some point I’ll come back to that… Still, rendering 5,200 box meshes using thin instances is…
Adding water materials to the Stoa project resulted in an unacceptable degradation in performance. This is one of those times when I am a bit jealous of 3D graphics outside of the context of virtual reality. The Babylon JS Water Material looks fantastic in traditional 3D scenes but doesn’t look great in VR and leads…
I’m spending some time this weekend thinking about blogging in the context of WebXR and WebGL scenes. What would it look like for a blog post to contain a 3D scene? How about writing a series of posts with different versions of the same scene over time? How about working with assets that appear in…
Expanding on the Stoa from Lab 028 with a focus on Sky, Lighting, and Materials.
Building a Greek Stoa while exploring some 3D modeling workflows in Babylon JS.
Continuing to improve the structure of the Extended Collection.
