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Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux
- rossant 6mo agoBrings me back! Well done!
- Computer0 6mo agoI had never heard of this piece of software before. I would be very interested in trying it out on Linux.
- wolpoli 6mo agoDoes anyone know why the 3DMMForever project stalled? Was technical or was it just a general lack of interest?
- parlortricks 6mo agoThis one looks to be the active fork, https://github.com/benstone/3DMMEx https://github.com/benstone/3DMMEx i should have read the article first...
- adamsb6 6mo agoI had forgotten how much time I spent with this software until I saw the screenshot. Thanks for the port!
- halflife 6mo agoKid pix was the time sink for me And then there’s this: https://kidpix.app/ https://kidpix.app/
- DParida08 6mo agoThat's peretty cool!!
- pulimento 6mo agowow, such an amazing job! really a gymkhana of libraries to port/change. makes me think in the (unknown future) portability of the software I create today
- matthewhartmans 6mo agoI used 3dmm throughout my high school making movies for school projects and side projects for laughs. This is an absolute gem! Thank you!
- ddtaylor 6mo agoI remember this source was released a while back and some people hacked it together to run on modern Windows. Yay!
- tombert 6mo agoNext logical step would be WASM, I suppose. Then I could easily show everyone in the world 12-year-old-tombert's masterpiece "Fatso Man and Tarzan Baby". ETA: I'm gonna give it a go with Claude tonight. Need to justify my $100 membership somehow.
- Pxtl 6mo agoHonestly there's a huge void online for a new xtranormal
- tombert 6mo agoAgreed. Now that 3DMM is open source, someone should make a video about how Kubernetes is Web Scale.
- aaronbrethorst 6mo agoFor anyone too young to catch the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
- tombert 6mo agoUPDATE: About an hour with Claude gave me this: https://3dmmex.pages.dev/ https://3dmmex.pages.dev/ It actually works reasonably well from what I can tell, though I haven't thoroughly tested it.
- tombert 6mo agoHere's the WASM source to those interested: https://github.com/Tombert/3DMMEx_WASM https://github.com/Tombert/3DMMEx_WASM
- intuxikated 6mo agoDoesn't work on brave on mobile, says fonts are missing Maybe you can bundle the fonts?
- hsbauauvhabzb 6mo agoAwesome! I can now ditch Windows. The year is finally here.
- Joel_Mckay 6mo agoTPM tamper detection and bitlocker disagree. Backup your key first... https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/back-up-your-bitlocker-recovery-key-e63607b4-77fb-4ad3-8022-d6dc428fbd0d https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/back-up-your-bit... Just about any *nix platform is a better experience now, but many Steam games are still windows only. =3
- hsbauauvhabzb 6mo agoAre you suggesting there are games that are not 3D movie maker that are worth playing?
- Joel_Mckay 6mo agoA lot of legacy applications will not work in Wine. 86box is a great option for old programs and games... no herculean porting efforts required. =3 https://github.com/86Box/86Box https://github.com/86Box/86Box
- ChrisRR 6mo agoDo you find you have issues recognising sarcasm?
- Joel_Mckay 6mo agoWho is sarcasm?
- anthk 6mo agoA lot of them will. And 86Box it's a joke compared to the raw performance you can get with DosBOX-X with the dynamic recompiled and some updated W98SE machine in order to RE some old games to run under ScummVM (the Spanish "Touch Games" from Bialplen made for these touch friendly arcade machines with solitaires, Trivia games and such).
- OuterVale 6mo agoThe most fantastic video I've ever seen created in Microsoft 3D Movie Maker is 'Grandpa Found the Car Keys': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGJKeESLBpQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGJKeESLBpQ A very impressive use of the tool to achieve a pretty impressive amount of style within the limitations.
- AndrewOMartin 6mo agoYour point stands, it's very impressive. But Dragon in America was a cut above even that. Just look at the "chase scene" starting at 10:00 (even just 15 seconds should be enough to make my point) https://youtu.be/i5IJCAhiBhw?si=qsTJgv6MsfjXmEXU&t=600 https://youtu.be/i5IJCAhiBhw?si=qsTJgv6MsfjXmEXU&t=600 For anyone not familiar with 3DMM, there was no facility to move "the camera" to any apparent camera movement was just moving each primitive object, as far as I know, one piece at a time.
- The_President 6mo agoThis was probably made by a couple sixth graders with too much caffeine using the parents' computer on a Friday night.
- cindyllm 6mo ago[dead]
- stevebmark 6mo agoRIP Pozin
- ChrisRR 6mo agoHold up. Pozin died? There's a name I haven't heard in a long time
- vintagedave 6mo agoHere is the blog series from the dev working on the Linux side of the port. (It was a group effort - both authors are very clear about the contributions from the other, it's really nice to read a story like this!) https://www.ilande.co.uk/2026/04/06/porting-3dmm-to-linux-part1.html https://www.ilande.co.uk/2026/04/06/porting-3dmm-to-linux-pa...
- lproven 6mo agoMore info from the other chap involved in the port: https://www.ilande.co.uk/2026/04/06/porting-3dmm-to-linux-part1.html https://www.ilande.co.uk/2026/04/06/porting-3dmm-to-linux-pa... https://www.ilande.co.uk/2026/04/17/porting-3dmm-to-linux-part2.html https://www.ilande.co.uk/2026/04/17/porting-3dmm-to-linux-pa... I wrote about it here: https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/13/linux-gains-more-critical-windows-apps-3d-movie-maker-and-space-cadet-pinball/5239455 https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/13/linux-gains-more...
- halflife 6mo agoThat’s excellent. Now do comic chat!
- resonanttoe 6mo agoMan, that client was the bane of any IRC Chan-op's existence when it came out.
- halflife 6mo agoAs a kid without internet, I didn’t even know it was a chat! I liked printing stupid comics