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TechWebGL1/2 + JavaScript or TypeScript

RenderingPhysically based rendering

Special FXparticles, postprocesses, lens, glow, etc..

Pros

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Small (but helpful) community

Thanks to the increasing popularity of Babylon, it has a growing community of helpful developers. It's easy to find help on their forum.

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A good amount of easy to understand resources to learn from

Babylon provides a playground where you can explore examples and play with the code.

The official documentation offers a wide variety of well-written tutorials on topics from beginner to advanced.

Additionally, there are many tutorials written by the community available that you can find by doing a google search.

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Great base shader material

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Actively developed

Babylon has great project health, with activity on Github daily for bug fixes and new features.

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Young project

Babylon is quite young compared to many of it's competitors (released in 2013). The community is still somewhat small, however growing quickly.

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Still evolving

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