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Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by tokioyoyo »

Twisol wrote: post #75
andrenotgiant wrote: post #31

This got me thinking: Rewind 25 years, I can easily imagine 15 year-old me sinking DOZENS of hours into playing this "game". I remember I put much more time than that into a free game that came in a box of cereal[0]. Today, I loaded the site up and spend about 30 seconds on it before deciding "this is cool!" and moving on, probably never to return. What changed? I guess it's a mix of: (A) How I value my time. (B) The…

> What changed? Personally, I feel too guilty about everything else I'm not doing. (This results in me feeling maximal guilt and doing minimal anything at all.)

Same here. It's a very sad realization, and I'm envious of people who don't feel this way sometimes. Nice to have company in misery at least though.

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by mosselman »

Twisol wrote: post #75
andrenotgiant wrote: post #31

This got me thinking: Rewind 25 years, I can easily imagine 15 year-old me sinking DOZENS of hours into playing this "game". I remember I put much more time than that into a free game that came in a box of cereal[0]. Today, I loaded the site up and spend about 30 seconds on it before deciding "this is cool!" and moving on, probably never to return. What changed? I guess it's a mix of: (A) How I value my time. (B) The…

> What changed? Personally, I feel too guilty about everything else I'm not doing. (This results in me feeling maximal guilt and doing minimal anything at all.)

That doesn’t sound healthy man. Unless that other thing you should’ve been doing is giving CPR or something then stop feeling guilty.

“Productivity” is not the end goal, you are allowed to play games in life. In fact, shouldn’t work be about enabling you to enjoy life?

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by ffsm8 »

animuchan wrote: post #123
jama211 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s a classic issue with these, and often not solvable by the web developer - an issue with mobile browsers themselves that’s hard to get around

It's trivially solvable with CSS though, isn't it? See the beginning of this stylesheet for example: https://github.com/mvasilkov/board2024/blob/master/out/app.c... — this is from my small 2024 game.

You mean the select: none, along with the drag setting?

If so, that's not necessarily followed/applied for accessibility reasons

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by account42 »

onion2k wrote: post #73
gldrk wrote: post #46

This is very impressive as an art project, but terrible as an actual home page. It’s slow as molasses and difficult to navigate. Microsoft Bob failed for a reason.

Bruno Simon sells courses on how to make things with three.js. As a homepage it is an exceptionally good example of what you can do with 3D in a browser, and what buying his course will enable you to build. It's a great home page with that context. It would not work for many other people.

It doesn't show anything for way too long, not exactly a good example of three.js use on the web.

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by ragazzina »

nbadg wrote: post #14

For those that can't get it to load (it takes a minute, and I noticed my desktop's fan kick it up a notch while things were getting initialized, so... YMMV): this is a portfolio site done via a cozy-gaming-style AWSD game where you drive around in a jeep-like thingamabob. There are some cute easter eggs, including a sort of... shrine to each of the socials, which you can run into with your car and knock over (though…

> Though I think the HN title ("handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites") is maybe a bit much.

How many cooler 3D websites do you know? I personally know less than 10, and only https://messenger.abeto.co/ off the top of my head.

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by haritha-j »

teekert wrote: post #23
nbadg wrote: post #14

For those that can't get it to load (it takes a minute, and I noticed my desktop's fan kick it up a notch while things were getting initialized, so... YMMV): this is a portfolio site done via a cozy-gaming-style AWSD game where you drive around in a jeep-like thingamabob. There are some cute easter eggs, including a sort of... shrine to each of the socials, which you can run into with your car and knock over (though…

It worked surprisingly well on ddg browser, iOS, iPhone mini 12. So, impressive!

not so well on chrome on ihpone xr sadly. But perhaps thats asking too much of a tired 7yr old device.

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by mattdesl »

Amazing as always, Bruno is a wizard with ThreeJS.

There’s a surprising amount of stutter and lag on iOS, evident after the loading bar completes and the app freezes for 30 sec. Also during gameplay, quite a bit of stuttering. My guess is GPU texture uploads or shader compilations. Otherwise it was buttery smooth.

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by haritha-j »

Twisol wrote: post #75
andrenotgiant wrote: post #31

This got me thinking: Rewind 25 years, I can easily imagine 15 year-old me sinking DOZENS of hours into playing this "game". I remember I put much more time than that into a free game that came in a box of cereal[0]. Today, I loaded the site up and spend about 30 seconds on it before deciding "this is cool!" and moving on, probably never to return. What changed? I guess it's a mix of: (A) How I value my time. (B) The…

> What changed? Personally, I feel too guilty about everything else I'm not doing. (This results in me feeling maximal guilt and doing minimal anything at all.)

Ditto. its a bit sad. I miss not knowing about all the things i could be doing.

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by sunrunner »

Cadwhisker wrote: post #116
catapart wrote: post #17

Very neat! I and completely respect the skill. I respect the effort even more! That said, it's not 'hands down, one of the coolest 3D websites', at least that I've seen. It's all "technical", very little "design". For example, why is it 'isometric overhead'? There's no particular benefit in the view, and it's specifically harder to control than it would be with a 'chase'/'third-person' camera. It's not like this is a…

I can't see Bruno's site and I assume it's because of the HN hug of death, but an impressive 3D website that always comes to mind is acko.net, with its 3D rendered tubular logo. He even describes how it was done in a blog post. https://acko.net/blog/zero-to-sixty-in-one-second/

acko.net is one I thought of immediately too. The front page for Three.js usually has some nice examples too.

Of course, with WebGL and WebGPU support becoming ever more ubiquitous I'm not sure when 'impressive 3D website' just becomes either 'impressive website' or 'impressive 3D'.

[1] https://threejs.org/

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by ggsp »

ragazzina wrote: post #135
nbadg wrote: post #14

For those that can't get it to load (it takes a minute, and I noticed my desktop's fan kick it up a notch while things were getting initialized, so... YMMV): this is a portfolio site done via a cozy-gaming-style AWSD game where you drive around in a jeep-like thingamabob. There are some cute easter eggs, including a sort of... shrine to each of the socials, which you can run into with your car and knock over (though…

> Though I think the HN title ("handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites") is maybe a bit much. How many cooler 3D websites do you know? I personally know less than 10, and only https://messenger.abeto.co/ off the top of my head.

Wow. Messenger is beautiful!
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