Archive for the ‘Animation’ Tag

Babylon JS

Can’t say I was impressed. I understand it is in JS and WebGL what Flash is to the browser. Not bad though for smaller, simpler animated projects.

Of the 3 examples on their site (http://www.babylonjs.com), Mansion did not run, Dino hunt was OK, but poorly designed (not Babylon’s fault!), Retail, lagged and would not work at times. I accessed them using Safari Version 8.0 (10600.1.25) on Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10, Intel Graphics Iris 1536 MB.

Looks like it still needs some work.

I believe the potential here is great as an alternative to Flash for new developers. However, when one considers the large established base of Flash developers, IMHO, it will be on the scale of years before we see wide-scale use. At best, for smaller animated projects, it’s not bad (like the Dino Hunt).

I’ll have to re-visit in a year and compare what I see then, with what I’ve written here. Reminder set.