Needle Engine

Needle Engine is a web engine for complex and simple 3D applications alike. It is flexible, extensible and has built-in support for collaboration and XR! It is built around the glTF standard for 3D assets.

Features

• WebXR support
• Networkign support
• iOS Quicklook support for interactive AR
• Advanced PBR Rendering
• Animate Everything
• Animation Statemachines
• Timeline Animation
• Lightmaps
• Postprocessing
• Custom Components and scripts
• Running on three.js
• Progressive Texture Loading
• Dynamic Content Loading
• Mutli-Scene support

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Editor Integrations

Powerful integrations for Unity and Blender allow artists and developers to collaborate and manage web applications inside battle-tested 3d editors. Needle Engine integrations allow you to use editor features for exporting models, author materials, animate and sequence animations, bake lightmaps and more.

Needle Engine does run without any Editor too: Try now on Stackblitz

Optimized Assets

Our builtin compression and optimization pipeline for the web makes sure your files are ready, small and load fast!
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Getting Started

Follow the Getting Started Guide to download and install Needle Engine. You can also find a list of sample projects that you can try live in the browser and download to give your project a headstart. For writing custom components read the Scripting Guide.

Try Needle Engine on StackBlitz ⚡

Contact ✒️

🌵 needle — tools for creators • @NeedleTools • @marcel_wiessler • @hybridherbst • Discord