Dust3D 1.0
low-poly 3D modeling tool (10 years in the making)
Details
- External ID
- 48015639
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Dust3D 1.0
- Website domain
- dust3d.org
- Launched
- May 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4894991922455573
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Dust3D 1.0 is finally released — about 10 years after the first commit in December 2016.I posted a preview version here in April 2018 and a beta in December 2018. Back then I thought 1.0 was just around the corner, but I kept adding new features that I could barely find time to finish as a weekend side project. I finally got it done with GitHub Copilot, using models including Claude Opus 4.6, Raptor mini (Preview), Claude Haiku 4.5, and Claude Sonnet 4.6.It's a cross-platform low-poly 3D modeling app focused on making it fast to create game-ready characters and objects from scratch.Source and downloads: https://dust3d.org Video overview: https://youtu.be/9KZi9LRs3Iw
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- low-poly 3d modeling tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Dust3D is a full 3D CAD/modeling engine featuring custom mesh generation, rigging, skinning, and OpenGL rendering algorithms that took a graphics engineer a decade to develop.
What it would actually take: The application relies on C++/Qt with custom geometry synthesis algorithms that automatically build 3D manifold meshes, skeletons, and skin weights from 2D node graphs. Developing it requires deep computational geometry expertise (half-edge data structures, Boolean operations, Poisson reconstruction, UV unwrapping), real-time graphics pipeline programming, and years of engine optimization.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #28 of 52 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 167 days after the earliest competitor.
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- dust-horizon-template · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- ModelGenerator · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- blender-astra-texture-guide · github · 2026-09-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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