Dust3D 1.0
low-poly 3D modeling tool (10 years in the making)
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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
HN · launched May 4, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 51%) · 0 views
Niche: 3d modeling and rendering software · 145 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -13% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 147 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #73 of 148 (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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- I built a browser-based 3D modeler because I'm scared of Blender · hn · 2026-03-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- I built a browser-based 3D editor since I didn't want to learn Blender · hn · 2026-03-01 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- jumpstart3d · github · 2026-10-19 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- dust-horizon-template · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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