Blender to WebGL exporter

Posted by Dennis on Mar 15, 2010 in 3D, WebGL • 3 comments

A month ago I posted a preview of some Blender to WebGL JavaScript exports. I haven’t had the time to add that many features to it, but I decided to put it on Google Code anyway. At the moment it exports to:

The export options are very basic at the moment. Hopefully I’ll find time to add more features to it :)

  • vertices
  • indices
  • normals
  • UV coordinates
  • vertex colors

If you’d like to contribute then please give me a shout :)

Here’s the Google Code page: http://code.google.com/p/blender-webgl-exporter/

This is an example of a simple Cube primitive with multiple array modifiers. 60 animation frames are exported.

See the live demo here.



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  1. Lindsay Kay on Mar 15, 2010, 1:06 pm:

    Hi Dennis,

    It seems that parsing huge Collada files in the browser is a bit taxing on user experience, so exporters such as this will be a good move for SceneJS (another alternative is SceneJS.asset nodes pulling JavaScript through a parser proxy, but that’s another story).

    It would be great to see this extended to generate SceneJS lighting, material, texture nodes etc. - I don’t know Python or Blender well enough, alas.

    But hold off until SceneJS V0.7.0 is released, because there will be some changes to the API in that release!

    cheers,
    Lindsay

  2. WebGL around the net, 16 March 2010 | Learning WebGL on Mar 16, 2010, 2:27 pm:

    [...] something I’ve been looking forward to seeing: Dennis Ippel’s Blender to WebGL exporter is now available for download. Blender is an powerful (if eccentrically-user-interfaced) open [...]

  3. Christofer on Jul 27, 2010, 9:42 pm:

    Hi.
    Good stuff, but why scaling is not working. All objects have the same size :/

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