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Latest — Mar 1, 2023

Building an extension for Owlbear Rodeo 2.0

Third-party extensions are a tried and true method of allowing the general community to add functionality to an existing piece of software. I'm sure I don't need to remind you of the plethora of browser extensions that have become available over the decades since browsers made such available. As of

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Playing Tabletop Role-playing Games Online without a VTT

Virtual Tabletops (VTT) have undoubtedly made tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons more accessible and approachable. VTTs and similar software have also helped other tabletop systems such as Pathfinder and Call of Cthulhu explode in popularity. What is a VTT? A Virtual Tabletop is a piece of software that

3D Dice at Scale

dddice is a simple platform to roll 3D dice with friends. Well ... we say simple but the infrastructure that powers over 60,000 rolls (and growing) has also grew in complexity. Our users depend on us for their game nights and there is nothing worse than something going wrong during

Dice Games to Play in a Tavern

So your party has a night in a tavern. It's been a long journey and now everyone is looking forward to relaxing, having a pint of grog, and tossing some dice around (perhaps winning some copper?) We've compiled a small list of dice games you can play while enjoying your

Using the dddice API to Create Your Own 3D Dice Themes

While we do have an editor for our online dice, one that let's you remix our themes or even create your own, it has its limits. If you want a truly unlimited dice creation experience you need to use the API, and core to that is understanding the dddice manifest

Best Online Dice Rollers for RPGs in 2022

Since the pandemic, more and more tabletop role-playing games have been happening online. This has fueled a huge surge in apps to help mediate the online experience - from Virtual TableTops (i.e. VTTs) to character sheet apps, encounter builders, and world builders. In this article we will be focusing

Pride🏳‍🌈 and Predju(dice)🎲 and Custom UV Coordinates 📈: a Three.js and GLSL story

Thus far in our series we have created custom GLSL shaders that animated numbers, and outlined faces -- one a phong shader and one a toon shader. In this installment we go into more depth on our multi-uv coordinate set models and then even edit them in blender. All to

Adapting Three.js Toon Shader for Cartoon-y 3D Dice

In this installment of our series on shader programming we show you how we modified the toon shader code on Three.js to create cartoony dice that have outlined faces. Last time we explained how we added the fade in effect for hidden rolls, and we will start with something

Customizing Three.js Phong Shader for Animated 3D Dice

One of our core goals for dddice.com is to build a platform to enable the community to create amazing 3d dice that they can share with the world. Computer graphics has always been a passion of mine. A friend and I somehow convinced the high school shop teacher to

Use 3D Dice Anywhere with dddice v0.3.0

dddice (pronounced three-d-dice, i.e. 3D dice) is a platform to roll and customize 3D dice with friends. v0.3.0 is, by far, our biggest yet. This release introduces the first version of the dddice API which can be used to create custom dddice integrations and dice themes. This