babylonjs-viewer README

This is a viewer for several of the asset file types used for game development with the Babylon.js engine. Typically such files are formatted for parsing by software rather than humans, so opening them in VS Code isn't very helpful.

With this extension, opening one of these files presents a digest that summarizes the file content and metadata. With a button click, the asset renders in a dedicated viewer panel powered by the Babylon.js engine. The viewer supports the same functionality as the Babylon.js Sandbox, including full Inspector support.

Features

• Support for multiple asset file types: .babylon, .gltf, .glb, and .obj.

• Rendering support via the Babylon.js engine.

  

• Filetype-specific digest summaries of asset file contents.

• Full JSON schema for .babylon files (used for syntax highlighting and intellisense in text-edit mode).

  

Requirements

None.

Extension Settings

No custom settings. However, by default this extension opens asset files in a digest summary view instead of the text editor. This can be changed on a per-file-extension basis through any of:

• Checking the Open <extension> files as text by default box on the digest summary.
• Right-clicking on an asset file and selecting Open With...
• Modifying workbench.editorAssociations

Known Issues

• The contents of the summary digests are a work in progress. Suggestions and requests are welcome on the project Issues Page.
• The file analysis to produce summary digests is re-executed every time a file is opened. In the future, an LRU cache will prevent re-processing of recently accessed files.
• Changes to a file do not automatically update any opened digest or viewer windows for that file.

Release Notes