Babylon 7.0 Is Out

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Post by deltakosh » Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 8:43 PM UTC

Babylon 7.0 Is Out
babylonjs.medium.com

Re: Babylon 7.0 Is Out

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Post by deltakosh » Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 8:43 PM UTC

Discover the new features we added for Babylon.js (including global illumination, gerometry nodes and far more!)

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Post by ertucetin » Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 9:00 PM UTC

Congrats, team! Thank you for your hard work. I've used all the well-known libraries, and Babylon.js has the best performance for the web.

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Post by RafelMri » Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 9:55 PM UTC

Fantastic! Now, with Gaussian splat rendering!

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Post by silverlight » Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 10:10 PM UTC

At Roll20 we just released a beta version of our new VTT engine which is powered by Babylon. The devs on the team have really enjoyed getting to use the modern workflow compared to the legacy decade-old stuff we were using before. Thanks Babylon devs!

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Post by billti » Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 11:48 PM UTC

Last time I tried Babylon even for something minimal my bundles (with esbuild) were just too big compared to alternatives.

I don’t see any mention of size optimizations in the blog post. Anyone have any knowledge on this they can share (else guess I’ll just try again with the new release).

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Post by FarhadG » Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 11:50 PM UTC

ertucetin wrote: post #3

Congrats, team! Thank you for your hard work. I've used all the well-known libraries, and Babylon.js has the best performance for the web.

I'd love to learn more if you have any benchmarks or takeaways.

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Post by Guillaume86 » Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 12:07 AM UTC

The bing AI reference in the promo video is a bit misleading with the "3D rendered..." prompt while Babylon.js is I guess only used for the subtle waiting animations.

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Post by qiller » Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 12:10 AM UTC

billti wrote: post #6

Last time I tried Babylon even for something minimal my bundles (with esbuild) were just too big compared to alternatives. I don’t see any mention of size optimizations in the blog post. Anyone have any knowledge on this they can share (else guess I’ll just try again with the new release).

It’s still quite monolithic. The issue is that it is a more complete engine than, let’s say Three, so the scene graph makes use of pretty much everything. Even you don’t use them, things like audio, webxr, node materials would get pulled in, despite tree shaking.

For our purposes, we filter out unused modules using webpack build. Things would crash badly if something would get used by accident, but we have a pretty controlled environment

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Post by willcipriano » Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 2:40 AM UTC

I was a big fan of Babylon 5 so this is great news.