What is the crowd's opinion of Blend4Web?

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I've been trying to figure this out as well. I "think" Blend4Web might be the answer but I haven't gotten into it yet. This demo makes it seem possible though.

> blend4web doesn't seem to work anymore...

Hi! Can you post your problem on the blend4web forums so that we could assist you?

> I'm doing my shaders and texturing on Cycles, if that changes anything ?

We in Blend4Web have added Cycles support some months ago.

Hi,

> how do i make camera follow object/character in b4w?

Here is a tutorial that may help https://www.blend4web.com/en/community/article/38/ Requires some coding though

> how do i remove all those buttons in web?

partially you can do this with no_social attribute https://www.blend4web.com/doc/en/web_player.html#attributes You can also create a new app with the Project manager so that it won't have the control button https://www.blend4web.com/doc/en/project_manager.html

Hope this helps!

Honestly, that sort of attitude doesn't merit a response but 10 seconds of googling revealed this is nothing to do with Blender: it's a Blend4Web restriction. https://www.blend4web.com/en/forums/topic/213/

Okay, that unfortunately isn't actually helpful in my specific case. Great for foliage and stuff still, but I needed to offset my normals by a certain amount, which it can't do.

However, I found https://www.blend4web.com/en/article/131/ -it has a normal editor that lets you copy normals from a different mesh, and that worked for me.

Thanks for the help anyway!

In order to setup Blender to operate using a VR headset, there is abit of development to workout. https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/getting_started/configuration/hardware.html#head-mounted-displays-virtual-reality

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/addons/3d_view/vr_scene_inspection.html

If you want to move a 3d scene onto a website with vr capabilities, you can try https://www.blend4web.com/en/

But many just use Unity, Unreal, or other VR engine.

You're likely to get a much better response from the Blend4Web community forums or their (dead-looking) sub: /r/blend4web/

It's a separate product to Blender, made by a different organisation. One of the wonders of open source!

I would say check out blend4web since you are already using blender. It's a web framework for publishing interactive 3d content from blender and supports touch. From there you could load it into a browser or roll it into a electron app. Would probably be relatively simple to map some shape keys or keyframes to hotkeys in B4W and then trigger those with the door switches or check out the api. As for the poly count on your model, optimized would always be better but you would just need to do some trial and error since there are a lot of factors.

btw, here is Blend4Web's website: https://www.blend4web.com/en/

If you have any question for /u/yuri_ko regarding the Blend4Web aspect of the prize, do ask in this thread in case the answer helps others as well.

Good luck and happy Blending!

With blend4web it's just a simple export from blender to create a webgl html file.

"Downside" of blend3Web is the license I guess. The free version of blend4Web is gpl and includes parts of itself in the html code generated..meaning...everything you create with the free version of blend4web must be gpl compatible and can be freely shared by others...I heard artists are not as tolerant as programmers in that topic. A commercial license is available as well though that doesn't have the requirement that your webfiles must be shareable.

Hi kvadd,

Currently you cannot edit text objects after export. However, you can use canvas texture feature to change text in runtime, how it was done in the Xmas greeting card https://www.blend4web.com/en/demo/greetcard_happy_new_year_2015/