
In this section, learn all about how to use Babylon.js outside of the browser! The Babylon.js platform offers several ways to use one awesome engine both in the web AND to create native applications. If you want one codebase that deploys across different platforms, look no further!


# Extensions

This section contains some incredible extensions and resources to Babylon.js, contributions from the amazing community surrounding this platform. While not a part of the main engine, and therefore not maintained by the core Babylon.js development team, the contents of this section contain some incredible technology that you can use to extend your Babylon.js experience even further!



## Contributions

You can contribute to either the Babylon.js engine directly or the documentation for it. The documentation is split into two parts, the 'tutorial' section and the API. The documentation for the API is written from comments within the code for Babylon.js so that details of how to contribute to the API fall under this section.


# Babylon.js Features

This section will help you learn all about the breadth and depth of features available with Babylon.js and how to use them. Buckle up! There's a LOT!


A selection of tutorials on games and applications that describe how they are achieved.


## Welcome - Your Journey Starts Here

Hello and welcome to Babylon.js! We know you're eager to start your learning journey, but before you dive any deeper or go clicking around, we'd humbly ask that you take the time to read through the following three very important documents. Reading these docs will set you up for success as you begin your Babylon.js learning journey.

- [Your Very First Step](/journey/theFirstStep)
- [Learning The Docs](/journey/learningTheDocs)
- [The Babylon.js Forum](/journey/forum)


## Legacy Features

Keeping back-compatibility is one of the main tenets of Babylon.js. However, with changes in technology, we sometimes have to make the decision to move older features to "Legacy" status, so that we can develop more modern and efficient approaches to problems. When a legacy feature has a more modern approach, it is advised to move to the modern approach when possible. This section lists all of our legacy features.



Creating assets that are beautiful and engaging while still being optimized for performance rendering at 60 fps can be tricky. This section is here to help you understand some of the basic concepts of creating real-time assets to use in Babylon.js.There are many great resources for learning how to create 3D assets for real-time rendering available online so this section will point to those resources when available. In that sense, this guide won't be a step-by-step guide for creating a specific asset in a specific digital content creation (DCC) tool, but rather a higher level discussion of the concepts that artists will be faced with when creating real-time assets. This section will also explain Babylon.js-specific concepts for asset creation to help you get the most out of your art pipeline.

To start things off, we will link to the [Khronos Group Real-Time Asset Creation Guidelines](https://registry.khronos.org/3DCommerce/AssetCreation/) which does a good job of explaining many of the basics of what real-time artists face when creating an asset. This guide is a good place to start for general concepts, but understand that the guide was written with creating assets for e-commerce in mind. This means that the target use is likely a small scene with a limited number of assets meant to help the purchase decision of the user. This means that any guidelines you see for triangle count, texture size, download size, material count, etc. may not fit with the size of scope of your scene and may need to be adjusted.

This section will also grow as demand dictates and you can help with that. Do you want to learn about a topic? Let us know on the [Babylon.js Forum!](https://forum.babylonjs.com/)



## Getting Your Babylon.js Web Project Set Up
This section provides support about the workflow required to create a 3D web app from getting started, by downloading a complete webpage from a simple playground, to building a large application, using an IDE and other developmental frameworks and packages.


# Tools and Resources

This section contains all sorts of handy information for developing in Babylon.js. From a rich set of tools to make development easier, to several free asset libraries for you to leverage in your scenes, this section is sure to help you make the most beautiful experiences possible, as quickly and effeciently as possible!



## Welcome To The Babylon.js Documentation

Hello and welcome to the Babylon.js Documentation. In these pages you will find everything you could ever want to know about this powerful, beautiful, simple, and completely open-source web rendering engine. Whether you are just starting your Babylon.js journey, or you are a seasoned veteran, it is our sincere hope that the information contained here will help you bring your ideas to life.

We know that each person comes to Babylon.js with their own individual background, experiences, and learning style. We also understand that each one of you has a different goal in mind for your learning journey. We have done our best to organize these doc pages to help the largest number of people achieve their learning goals as efficiently as possible. With two parts to our whole documentation – knowing that many of you want to dive right into Babylon.js, learning about the engine and its features, while others of you prefer to start by understanding how to get Babylon.js set up and integrated into a web application – you'll find paths optimized for each of these learning styles in the coming pages.

However, before you go any further, we strongly encourage (and humbly ask) EVERYONE to [Start Your Babylon.js Journey Here.](journey/theFirstStep)

![Babylon](/img/home/babylonjs_identity_color.png)

Babylon.js Documentation

Welcome To The Babylon.js Documentation

Coming next

Your Journey Starts Here

The very beginning of EVERYONE's Babylon journey.

Babylon.js Features

Learn all about the breadth and depth of features that come with Babylon.js

Workflow

The workflow from simple webpage to complete app with IDE and developmental frameworks.

Tools And Resources

Learn about handy development tools and resources available to you for creating stunning Babylon.js scenes.

Preparing Assets for Babylon.js

Learn all about how to prepare various assets for use in Babylon.js

Babylon.js Cross Platform

Learn how to use Babylon.js to create Native Apps!

Contribute

Describes how you can contibute to the development of Babylon.js

Guided Learning

A selection of tutorials on games and applications that describe how they are achieved

Community Extensions

Learn all about amazing community-led extensions to the core Babylon platform.

Legacy

Babylon.js legacy features

What's New

Documentation page for What's New

API

Documentation page for API

Search

Documentation page for Search

Playground search

Documentation page for Playground search