Needle Engine - Your three.js based web engine with integrations for Unity & Blender and build optimization

Needle Engine is a web engine for complex and simple 3D applications alike.

Run on your machine and deploy anywhere. It is flexible, extensible and has built-in support for collaboration and XR! It is built around the glTF standard for 3D assets.

Powerful integrations for Unity and Blender allow artists and developers to collaborate and manage web applications inside battle-tested 3d editors.

Needle Engine Integrations allow you to use Editor features for exporting models, author materials, animate and sequence animations, bake lightmaps and more with ease.

Our powerful compression and optimization pipeline for the web make sure your files are ready, small and load fast!

What our users say:

💬 “My workflow has been optimized 10X ever since i started using needle.”

💬 “Needle Engine is a wonderful showcase of what Needle contributes to 3D via the web. I just love it.”

💬 “Unbelievable Unity editor integration by an order of magnitude, and as straightforward as the docs claim. Wow.”

💬 “This is the best thing I have seen after cinemachine in unity”

💬 “I have already built a few AR/VR apps for web and native platforms myself and am really impressed how much Needle Engine can do”