As cool as Unity is as a platform, it just doesn’t feel right for this project.\u00a0 That’s tough because it’s obviously a professional tool and some really cool things have been made with it.\u00a0 After several days of thinking about it I decided to take a look at BabylonJS again.\u00a0 I’ve used that library before and it was quite cool, I just remember I got frustrated with the built-in collision detection system.\u00a0 After spending months with various collision detection algorithms and never having much luck getting anything implemented, minor annoyances with the way Babylon operates seem less significant now.\u00a0 I’ve been messing around with Babylon the last few days and I already have a heightmap-based terrain with a box character walking around on it, complete with collision detection and gravity.\u00a0 I’ve been beating my head against the wall trying to keep the character from being able to walk up a very steep slope, but screw it.\u00a0 I’ll figure that out later.\u00a0 You also can’t jump, but screw that, too.\u00a0 I know that can be implemented correctly but if I fight with it too much right now I’m going to give up on Babylon too and then I’ll be back to square one trying to use THREE.js and as much as I love THREE.js, the tools to create assets in Blender and import and use them in THREE.js simply aren’t ready yet and there’s no indication when they will be ready, whereas the Babylon exporter for Blender seems to work just fine right now.\u00a0 So, for now, we’re moving ahead with Babylon.\u00a0 It’s open source and it has many nice features, plus I can reuse my existing Node.js server side code with it, so there’s that.\u00a0 I’ll try to post more frequently now that I’ve decided (again) on a tool to use, and hopefully get back to a regular release schedule as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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