x³

Boilerplate for realtime 3D rendering and server-side physics in HTML5 and NodeJS

Mechanics

• Core Engine (WebGL): three.js
• Networking Backend: Pure WebSockets
• Data Mechanics: Various binary datatypes sent and received through ArrayBuffers

Features

• Realtime client construction / deconstruction
• Custom cube coloring and naming
• Realtime interpolated movement
• Realtime chat
• Realtime user list

Releases

• WebSockets - Coming Soon!
• WebSockets (Uint8Array) - Coming Soon!
• Socket.IO - Due to deficiencies in overall performance and stability, we have removed all Socket.IO support.

Authors

• Sean Oberoi
• Stas Darevskiy

Links

• Live Example
• Binary Data (ArrayBuffers) Introduction
• Germs.io
• Mile High Interactive
• Stas' Blog

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