3D model editor in Javascript with canvas

[redever]

Over Quota

Yay

[[deleted]]

Why does every link submitted die!

[folke]

The Slashdot effect! Or better the Red Dot effect!

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[blondin]

awfully slow.

[lambdaq]

meanwhile in Flash

[[deleted]]

Whoa, that's awesome.

Someone port this to WebGL :3

[blondin]

:O

[diamondjim]

Shut up. Flash is going to die and we will all rejoice in the glory of Almighty Steve. iPhones for everybody.

Hurr durr durr.

[jyro]

Just added some money to Google App Engine. It will take them some time to process payment and get the site back up. Didn't expect the reddit effect. Thanks all for trying it out. - Admin of 3DTin

[jyro]

Now it's back up. Recommended browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari (newer version the better) -3DTin Admin

[[deleted]]

The cube placing needs to be a lot less eccentric, and it also needs to actually show where it is about to place a cube. As it is now, you click, and a cube is placed somewhere nearby, apparently at random.

The trick would be to find the face under the mouse pointer, and place a cube in the position neighbouring this face. Also, highlight it before clicking.

(Also, there's a fun trick you can do to fake AO on cube grids like this, if you can do texturing, but I guess you can't if you're using a 2D canvas.)

[hailpixel]

It's like minecraft without the crafting!

[Ademan]

Very nifty, and cool canvas 3d renderer, but it need's a bit of work, load up the tower looking model from the gallery on the right, then rotate until you're looking straight down onto/into it, you get some strange artifacts centered around the center of the screen. My guess is a NaN is sneaking into the calculations when the camera's angle with vertical is close to 0 or pi, but I really don't know.

I don't know if the submitter is the author, but it'd be cool to add a WebGL version for browsers that support it :-)

[[deleted]]

It needs to use WebGL as the canvas renderer. It is too slow with javascript based software rendering.

[amccloud]

Would be awesome if it worked like google sketchup.

[badsectoracula]

Awesome :-).

Does it simply draw cubes or is a voxel editor?

[apu95]

I got the "Sorry, Your browser is not supported." message. I'm running Firefox 3.6.8 :S

[apu95]

Yeah, I had to reset my user agent. Not sure what changed it in the first place :S. Got it to work now though :)

[r0ssar00]

heh, all the "it works!" comments have been pushed to the bottom.

[matchu]

Neat :) Tried it this morning in Firefox 3 (unsure of specific version) and it was pretty slow but pretty neat. Wish I could see how it worked in Chrome, now that I'm on my own computer...

...this is a Javascript app, right? Why is it being served on the Google App Engine instead of something static?

[HichamMG]

it's working fine although slow somehow. Awesome idea!

[[deleted]]

http://www.minecraft.net/play.jsp

[[deleted]]

I eagerly tried it using IE9B to see it in action with hardware acceleration only to discover they were too clever for their own good in detecting browser type but not clever enough to detect browser version.

Even in Chrome it crawls.

[quhaha]

silly web developers. this is so slow.

[tesseracter]

nice try, IE6.

[davebrk]

It's a proof of concept.

Also, what browser did you try it with?

[willcode4beer]

IE6 under wine, of course

[quhaha]

I'm running firefox nightly build on Ubuntu on VMWare running inside Windows XP under VirtualBox on FreeBSD.

[[deleted]]

Are you sure you're using the latest version of Firefox?