Babylon Toolkit

Project Description
Babylon Toolkit provides a complete toolbox for Silverlight 5 3D.


It includes:

• A complete Effect class with shaders and parameters support (with an integrate shaders and registers cache system)
• A Model/ModelMesh/ModelMeshPart object model
• A ModelContent/ModelMeshContent/ModelMeshPartContent object model to create Model hierarchy
• An importation system with support for .OBJ files
• Cameras classes:
  • Orbit camera
  • Regular camera
• A BasicEffect for simple rendering modes which supports:
  • Diffuse color & texture
  • Specular color & texture
  • Bump texture
  • Ambient color
  • Point light
• Pre-defined effects:
  • BasicEffect3Lights (3 directionals lights instead of 1 position light)
  • CartoonEffect (work in progress)
  • SkinnedEffect (with normal and specular map support)
  • SplattingEffect (for multi-texturing with smooth and precise transitions)
  • VertexColorEffect (very light for non textured meshes)
• Ray intersections system
  • BoundingSphere
  • Mesh vs Ray
• Particles System
• Primitives creation tools
  • Box
  • Sphere

New features in 1.0.4

• New Effects
  • BasicEffect3Lights (3 directionals lights instead of 1 position light)
  • CartoonEffect (work in progress)
  • SkinnedEffect (with normal and specular map support)
  • SplattingEffect (for multi-texturing with smooth and precise transitions)
  • VertexColorEffect (very light for non textured meshes)
• Improved Effects
  • Effects with normal map support now have an "InvertBinormal" property (some tools generate normal maps with binormal pointing upward and others pointing downward)
• Particle System
  • Basic particle rendering system with basic physics computed on GPU
• Primitives
  • Facility tools for creating cubes and spheres
• Modified model system to allow third party tools to create Model / Mesh / MeshPart without using ModelContent hierarchy.
• Bug fixes

Blog post on Babylon.Toolkit :

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2011/06/06/babylon-toolkit-1-0-4.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2011/05/22/babylon-toolkit-v1-0-3-simplify-3d-development-with-silverlight-5.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2011/05/14/babylon-toolkit-update-1-0-2.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2011/05/09/babylon-toolkit-a-toolbox-for-developing-3d-applications-with-silverlight-5.aspx

You can also get Babylon.Toolkit from Nuget : http://www.nuget.org/List/Packages/Babylon.Toolkit

You can also download the Babylon engine (a full 3D engine for Silverlight) : http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Babylon-3D-engine-f0404ace