Next 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.

• tombert

  05/15/2026

  UPDATE: About an hour with Claude gave me this: https://3dmmex.pages.dev/

  It actually works reasonably well from what I can tell, though I haven't thoroughly tested it.

  • tombert

    05/15/2026

    Here's the WASM source to those interested: https://github.com/Tombert/3DMMEx_WASM

    • intuxikated

      05/15/2026

      Doesn't work on brave on mobile, says fonts are missing Maybe you can bundle the fonts?

      • tombert

        05/15/2026

        You can actually click "ok" and just continue anyway.

        That said, yeah, I'll see if i can bundle the fonts tonight.

        • tombert

          05/16/2026

          Just an update, fixed this by using the Comic Relief font and placing that in there.

• replete

  05/15/2026

  My 12 year old 3DMM masterpiece was "Super Poo in the Super Loo". I was surprised this wasn't more popular, so much fun

• Pxtl

  05/15/2026

  Honestly there's a huge void online for a new xtranormal

  • tombert

    05/15/2026

    Agreed. Now that 3DMM is open source, someone should make a video about how Kubernetes is Web Scale.

    • aaronbrethorst

      05/15/2026

      For anyone too young to catch the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

• ksi23

  05/15/2026

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The 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

A very impressive use of the tool to achieve a pretty impressive amount of style within the limitations.

• AndrewOMartin

  05/15/2026

  Your 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

  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

  05/16/2026

  This was probably made by a couple sixth graders with too much caffeine using the parents' computer on a Friday night.

  • cindyllm

    05/16/2026

    [dead]

Awesome! I can now ditch Windows. The year is finally here.

• resonanttoe

  05/15/2026

  Nice for you, but as a not-so-creative - I can't function without Fine Artist and at least creative writer 1.

• Joel_Mckay

  05/15/2026

  TPM tamper detection and bitlocker disagree. Backup your key first...

  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

    05/15/2026

    Are you suggesting there are games that are not 3D movie maker that are worth playing?

    • Joel_Mckay

      05/15/2026

      A 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

      • anthk

        05/15/2026

        A 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).

        • hsbauauvhabzb

          05/15/2026

          I don’t care about products, I just want my 3D movie maker at a silky smooth 120fps as it was intended

      • ChrisRR

        05/15/2026

        Do you find you have issues recognising sarcasm?

        • Joel_Mckay

          05/15/2026

          Who is sarcasm?

More info from the other chap involved in the port:

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-pa...

I wrote about it here:

https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/13/linux-gains-more...

I had forgotten how much time I spent with this software until I saw the screenshot. Thanks for the port!

• halflife

  05/15/2026

  Kid pix was the time sink for me

  And then there’s this: https://kidpix.app/

Here 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-pa...

I used 3dmm throughout my high school making movies for school projects and side projects for laughs.

This is an absolute gem! Thank you!

Does anyone know why the 3DMMForever project stalled? Was technical or was it just a general lack of interest?

• parlortricks

  05/14/2026

  This one looks to be the active fork, https://github.com/benstone/3DMMEx

  i should have read the article first...

I remember this source was released a while back and some people hacked it together to run on modern Windows.

Yay!

wow, 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

That’s excellent. Now do comic chat!

• resonanttoe

  05/15/2026

  Man, that client was the bane of any IRC Chan-op's existence when it came out.

  • halflife

    05/15/2026

    As a kid without internet, I didn’t even know it was a chat! I liked printing stupid comics

I had never heard of this piece of software before. I would be very interested in trying it out on Linux.

RIP Pozin

• ChrisRR

  05/15/2026

  Hold up. Pozin died? There's a name I haven't heard in a long time

Brings me back! Well done!

That's peretty cool!!