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A Week of A-Frame 15

A-Frame intensifies as we pass 2000 GitHub stars and 800 Slack members! Sneak peeks of multi-user, embedded scenes, room-scale, asymmetric gaming, the A-Frame Editor, and link traversal at SFHTML5 WebVR meetup.

Thanks to Matt Simpson for the many contributions this week!

Projects

• Elliot Plant built Celestial Dancers —

  An orbital mechanics simulation of celestial bodies.

• EricaLayton built Dark Lotus —

  Lotus flowers on churning water.

• Inje Yeo built Aquila VR —

  Mapping of the universe using actual collected star data (may take time to load).

• andgokevin built Audio Analyser Node Components —

  Refactoring of the audio visualizer components to use Web Audio AnalyserNodes coming soon.

• Ben Pyrik built Cubemap Component —

  A component for creating cubemap textures.

• drawvr built Plinko —

  Can you make it into the middle slot?

• drawvr built Foosball —

  Everyone’s second favorite table-top game, with physics.

• andgokevin built Firebase Presentation —

  A multi-user demo scene for the SFHTML5 presentation.

• @elliotaplant + @iandeboisblanc + @shane built Poop VR —

  Life-altering possibilities of VR at the San Francisco Stupid Hackathon.

Media

• @andgokevin and @dmarcos

  presented

  A-Frame: VR for Web Developers at SFHTML5 WebVR Meetup.

• Elliot Plant

  wrote

  about creating an orbital mechanics simulation, using React and a custom physics engine.

• rabimba

  held

  a workshop on A-Frame at Innovation High School in New York

• fernandojsg

  teased

  a Beta of the A-Frame Editor.

• arturitu

  prototyped

  link traversal in the Vive by grabbing globes and placing them on your head.

• dmarcos

  prototyped

  embedded room-scale scenes within Wikipedia articles (shown Burj Khalifa).

Contributions

• msimpson added

  the end attribute to animations to stop animations on events.

• msimpson implemented

  a separate delay attribute for animations.

• msimpson added

  dodecahedron, octahedron, and tetrahedron geometries.

• msimpson fixed

  raycaster intersection with models by binding el to object3Ds.

• ngokevin tweaked

  default lighting to make objects look less flat.

• fernandojsg added

  the material.flatShading boolean property.

• fernandojsg updated

  the geometry schemas to be more accurate and complete.

• fernandojsg added

  the oneOf attribute to the geometry.primitive property for the editor.

• fernandojsg fixed

  .play() not being called when active camera changed.

• ngokevin worked around

  a weird error where parentNode was becoming null on entity callbacks.