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A Week of A-Frame 10

Mayo dropping shaders, AltspaceVR asking A-Frame for a dance, and SceneVR baking scenes. All vying for the crown of A Week on A-Frame, but winter is coming as Don McCurdy marches the revamped controls API.

Projects

• AltSpaceVR built AltSpaceVR Component —

  A component that makes A-Frame scenes compatible with the social platform AltSpaceVR.

• jon_ibe built Electrocat —

  Groove to Topanga’s music.

• mayognaise built Draw Shader —

  A shader to render from canvas.

• mayognaise built HTML Shader —

  A shader to render HTML using html2canvas.

• mayognaise built Video Shader —

  A shader to render video, primarily for iOS inline playback.

• mayognaise built GIF Shader —

  A shader to display GIFs.

• ericalayton built Sky Islands VR —

  Islands floating over water.

• scenevr built Voxel Castle —

  A castle created with MagicaVoxel, baked in Blender, and hosted on SceneVR.

• scenevr built Monument Valley Castle —

  Another castle created with MagicaVoxel, baked in Blender, and hosted on SceneVR.

• atomicguy built Fence Component —

  A component to set boundaries on an entity’s position.

• andreasplesch built Mesh Line Component —

  A component to draw some nice thick lines.

• ngokevin built Randomizer Components —

  A component that set random values.

• atomicguy built Victorian Exhibit —

  A quaint museum visit.

Contributions

• dmarcos implemented

  a geometry merging API to reduce the number of draw calls.

• enjalot fixed

  canvas size being overwritten when providing a canvas.

• ngokevin organized

  and cleaned up all of the examples.

• ngokevin removed

  unnecessary object comparisons in material and sound component updates.

• andreasplesch enabled

  vanilla HTML templates when loading external templates.

  (for ngokevin/aframe-template-component)
• rangermauve enabled

  vanilla HTML templates when loading templates from a script tag.

  (for ngokevin/aframe-template-component)