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How to make your dice remix friendly using emissive maps

How to make your dice remix friendly using emissive maps

🎲This article is a guest post by NatoPotato, one of our featured community dice creators. He recently updated many of his themes to enhance their remixablity! We asked him to share his process with our community. — ♥ Celeste Bloodreign I'm sure some of you have seen a cool looking dice set,

How To make dice in Blender and import them to dddice using gLTF

How To make dice in Blender and import them to dddice using gLTF

In previous blog posts I have explained how to upload dice set via our API, and even how to use Blender to update the dice models. In this article I will walk you though the process of creating a set of dice completely within Blender and use the dddice API

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

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

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

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

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

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