alt.hn

5/11/2026 at 5:17:20 PM

Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux

 https://benstoneonline.com/posts/porting-3d-movie-maker-to-linux/

by speckx

5/15/2026 at 9:46:41 AM

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...

by vintagedave

5/14/2026 at 10:09:10 PM

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.

by tombert

5/15/2026 at 1:19:40 AM

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.

by tombert

5/15/2026 at 4:23:16 AM

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

by tombert

5/15/2026 at 6:08:02 AM

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

by intuxikated

5/15/2026 at 12:38:14 AM

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

by Pxtl

5/15/2026 at 3:12:09 AM

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

by tombert

5/15/2026 at 4:06:38 AM

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by ksi23

5/15/2026 at 4:14:11 AM

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.

by OuterVale

5/15/2026 at 8:58:14 AM

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.

by AndrewOMartin

5/14/2026 at 9:12:07 PM

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

by adamsb6

5/14/2026 at 10:30:05 PM

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

by hsbauauvhabzb

5/15/2026 at 4:16:17 AM

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

by Joel_Mckay

5/15/2026 at 5:41:14 AM

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

by hsbauauvhabzb

5/15/2026 at 6:09:45 AM

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

by Joel_Mckay

5/15/2026 at 9:57:40 AM

Do you find you have issues recognising sarcasm?

by ChrisRR

5/14/2026 at 9:44:57 PM

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

This is an absolute gem! Thank you!

by matthewhartmans

5/14/2026 at 8:58:06 PM

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

by wolpoli

5/15/2026 at 6:17:46 AM

RIP Pozin

by stevebmark

5/15/2026 at 9:59:57 AM

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

by ChrisRR

5/14/2026 at 9:51:10 PM

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

Yay!

by ddtaylor

5/14/2026 at 9:24:55 PM

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

by pulimento

5/14/2026 at 10:17:57 PM

Brings me back! Well done!

by rossant

5/14/2026 at 9:15:03 PM

That's peretty cool!!

by DParida08

5/14/2026 at 8:52:28 PM

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

by Computer0