Y’all need to see this:
This is absolutely wild.
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Haha, awesome!
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Wow. That is also impressive. So between being able to ask very specific questions with GPTChat and prototyping various scenes and objects with Codex, I can move really quickly! Love this!
Ooh i was playing with codex today. It was a really good alternative to googling for babylonjs code snippets (and general javascript help). Their sandbox didn’t work for generating babyon scenes like in that video b/c it doesn’t load the libraries. Wonder if he created a custom setup there with libs preloaded and then using the codex api.
I wanted to try it out b/c when i asked “Create a snowstorm” … it generated some really interesting particle stuff. Was wondering how far i could take it…
I also did feel like a sucker for spending so much time doing things by hand. Like when you’re a kid and you realize that there’s a calculator for that.
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I feel that; I will never use long division, ever. But just think how much more use you got out of the calculator by already having the basics down yourself!
I used ChatGPT to generate some animation code combining GSAP + babylon.js… it created novel working examples that I was able to tweak. Pretty mind blowing!
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It’s really nice to have in your back pocket. When I’m feeling lazy I just ask it how to do stuff I don’t wanna look up such as “how to include GLTFFileLoader in your project” since I wasn’t sure what the npm package was called.
Not to hijack this thread, but if you could an AI feature to the Babylon platform, what would it be and why?
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Integrate Codex into Playground.
I was about to write a chrome plugin to do that actually… would make experimentation SO much faster.
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Looking up random packages such as:
"how to include GLTFFileLoader in your project”
“how to include fur material in your babylon.js project” -
Generating conceptual explanations such as the difference between an objects center / bounding box center, its position, and its pivot point.
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A general sense for what the side effects are when you recenter a model using code like this:
export const recenterMesh = (mesh: Mesh | AbstractMesh, center?: Vector3, offset?: Vector3) => {
center = center || mesh.getBoundingInfo().boundingBox.center
const offsetX = offset ? offset.x : 0
const offsetY = offset ? offset.y : 0
const offsetZ = offset ? offset.z : 0
const pos = mesh.getVerticesData("position") || []
for (let i = 0; i < pos.length / 3; ++i) {
const x = pos[i * 3 + 0]
const y = pos[i * 3 + 1]
const z = pos[i * 3 + 2]
pos[i * 3 + 0] = x - center.x + offsetX
pos[i * 3 + 1] = y - center.y + offsetY
pos[i * 3 + 2] = z - center.z + offsetZ
}
mesh.setVerticesData("position", pos)
return center
}
And then ofc the things you already get from Codex are also definitely useful for fast prototyping. Imo I definitely see the case for two separate AI that help you with different things; it would be like Clippy and his pal Sticky Note.
In general babylon.js is a powerful and large framework. There’s just so many things to keep track of and remember, having a tool to quickly help you jump around from one domain such as animations to another, say thin instances in a quick and easy way would be awesome.
I have been playing with this plenty myself. It’s had some amazing insights. The only rough part is its knowledge is from 2021 and often the babylon code/approaches are way out of date now. Can’t wait until a version of this exists that has up to date information from the internet too… kinda scary also though once it can 
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While I love AI and think it is cool there have been so many scenarios on Stack Overflow where completely incorrect response to a SO question by ChatGPT has been copy and pasted as an answer that they had to ban usage of GPT generated answers on the site. Hopefully Babylon answers are better?
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As I’m trying out more questions I am learning that GPT Chat is definitely not perfect; it made up a few non-existent method calls in response to some of my babylon.js questions
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