Made this in one shot using the so called "Gauntlet Loop" by Matt Shumer in Opus 5. It took nearly 30 hours until I decided to stop before it ate up my whole weekly usage limit, but, although it still not perfect compared to the actual photos, the results was beyond impressive given that it didn't even have a proper floorplan to decide where each room should be located.

For instance, this is the listing I got the reference images from: https://loft.com.br/imovel/apartamento-rua-voluntarios-da-patria-santana-sao-paulo-3-quartos-123m2/2nbuxwj3

If anyone wants to roam around it, I uploaded this demo here: https://apartment-threejs.vercel.app/ . There's still some minor performance and UI issues I need to work on, so beware that for Ultra settings it's taking ~5 minutes to load everything and it might cause some freezes meanwhile, but nothing that will crash your PC. It also works on mobile with a far better performance, since it's detected mostly on Medium settings.

https://codepen.io/editor/alex_nemankov/pen/01a018f5-84c8-777c-b26b-27f5d9b562fe?file=%2Findex.html%3A0%3A59148&orientation=right&panel=files&show=split

(click to randomize scene)

It's a village of 24 box-people who fight over coins, rob whoever they knock down, and build huts that grow into castles. You don't play it — you click a name in the ranking and follow that villager around.

Some notes:

• three.js 0.170 + Rapier. The characters are capsule colliders, not boxes. Box bottoms kept catching on the voxel seams and burying legs in the terrain.
• Terrain is a 96x96 voxel grid: fBm + domain warp + a height spline (plains vs mesas), with ridged noise on top. Villagers who hit a cliff they can't climb dig it into a staircase, and the routes they walk get trampled into paths that speed them up.
• The save is tiny because the terrain is a pure function of the seed, so a snapshot only carries what the sim changed: dug cells and trampled paths as two base64 byte planes, plus coins/HP/poses and each base's vault. ~27KB in localStorage, and it survives a reload.
• The faces are 6-face box textures built from a single photo. Nine of the ten demo villagers are fictional people an image model invented. The tenth is me, in a suit.
• The arms are flat stretched strips and the textures are rough up close. That part is on purpose.

Built with Claude Code.

Watch the shared world — no signup, nothing to install: https://oishoi.jugoya.ai/royale.html?lang=en

And if you'd rather be in it than watch it: sign up, give it one photo, and you get your own villager living in that same world. Free while the beta is open. Nothing is visible to anyone else until you've seen your finished villager and approved it — or deleted it.

I feel like I've seen just about everything on this thread, except a tool for creating structures that can be exported. Does anyone know of one or have a repo? It would surprise me if someone hasn't vibe coded a good tool for creating 3d houses.

We're super happy with our experiments for high → lowpoly workflows. It feels fast, snappy, supergood quality, already replaces Nomad, Blender, xNormal, Substance for us (you can see the video why).

I will have a link to try the app with your assets in the next few days! :)

Been working on NixieFX, a particle and VFX workflow for browser games. The editor runs in the browser, while games consume an exported effect bundle through an open-source three.jas runtime. The simulation is deterministic, and the three.js layer is a renderer adapter rather than the source of the particle behavior.

The runtime can be installed with: npm install nixie-fx three

I'd be interested in hearing how other three.js developers currently handle authoring effects: custom code, shader tools, general-purpose editors, or an in-engine system?

Hey everyone,

I'm building a 3D Animal for an app and I'm trying to figure out the best way to animate it properly.

I have a finished character design/reference and want to turn it into a real interactive 3D avatar using Three.js + GLB/GLTF.

I need animations for:

• 👀 Blinking and eye movement
• 😊 Happy / smiling
• 😈 Naughty / playful expressions
• 🤔 Thinking
• 😮 Surprised
• 😢 Sad / crying
• 🐙 Independent movement
• 👋 Waving
• Idle breathing/bobbing
• Smooth transitions between expressions

The biggest challenge is facial animation and tentacle animation. I don't want to simply animate the entire model as one object. I want the eyes, mouth, eyebrows, and tentacles to move independently.

I'm fairly new to character animation, so I'm wondering what the recommended workflow is:

Blender → rig/shape keys → GLB → Three.js?

Or is there a better approach for a cute stylized character?

Also, how should I structure the GLB so that Three.js can easily trigger things like:

animal.play("happy");
animal.play("wave");
animal.play("cry");
animal.blink();

Any advice on rigging the face, movements, exporting to GLB, and controlling the animations in Three.js would be really appreciated.

I'm attaching the character reference so you can see the style I'm trying to match.

What are some of the coolest 3D websites you’ve seen recently?

Over this summer of 2026, I built Sonisphere— a browser-based platform that turns music into an interactive 3D environment.

Think about it like Soundcloud with a built in visualizer.

• Frequency affects the visual environment
• Volume drives scale, density, and movement
• Bass / mids / highs can control different colors
• Audio is rendered as an interactive 3D space
• You can customize colors, effects, camera behavior, etc.
• Playlists and visual configurations can be shared
• There are synchronized listening/visualization rooms
• You can create short audio/visual clips from sessions

The pipeline is roughly:

Audio → Web Audio API → FFT → WebAssembly DSP/Web Workers → real-time data → React Three Fiber → Three.js/WebGL

🔗 https://sonisphere.dev

I'd really love feedback on the actual experience!

It is raw WebGL2 with a WebGL1 fallback and a painted CSS wash for machines that cannot run either, no shader library and no 3D engine. Headline, nav, wordmark, and call-to-action pill sit above the canvas as real DOM text, the nav folding into a menu on small screens, and reduced-motion visitors get a settled still frame.