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FRAK (engine)

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Written in
  
JavaScript

Type
  
JavaScript library

Available in
  
English

Website
  
www.frakengine.com

Developer(s)
  
3D Technologies R&D Ltd

Repository
  
github.com/3dtech/frak/

FRAK engine is a JavaScript library/API for creating interactive 3D applications using WebGL. The purpose of the library is to provide an API for making easier developing 3D content for the web, games and other interactive applications. FRAK engine is developed by 3D Technologies R&D. It was originally free for personnal use, but required a license from 3D Technologies for commercial usage; it is now licensed under the BSD license and hosted on GitHub.

Contents

Rendering

The rendering engine uses industry standard WebGL API what ensure cross-platform deployability.

  • Real-time shadows
  • Dynamic textures
  • Transparency
  • Octree generation
  • Occlusion culling

    • Resource Management

  • Automatic caching and loading
  • Textures: types supported by browsers (jpg, png etc.)
  • Shaders: glsl
  • Materials: json based
  • Fonts: support for bitmap fonts generated with BMFont

    • Many supported 3D file formats

    Currently, the following 3D file formats are supported using our converter see the list below:

    FRAK and javascript

    FRAK engine is a javascript library and submitting the content also takes place in javascript. Subsequently we have an example about uploading a 3D model.

    Example code can be downloaded here.

    References

    FRAK (engine) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA