forge3d Developer Platform

forge3d is a Rust-powered terrain and scene viewer with a Python surface built around one primary workflow:

1. Resolve a dataset.

2. Launch the interactive viewer or notebook widget.

3. Send small, explicit scene updates over IPC.

4. Capture snapshots, package scenes, or compose publication output.

The Phase 2 platform work adds the missing developer layer around that runtime: sample datasets, notebook widgets, a clearer docs spine, and higher-level workflows for overlays, point clouds, map plates, buildings, and bundles.

Start Here

• Quickstart
  • Install
  • First terrain
  • Pull a real dataset
  • Notebook workflow
  • Next steps
• Architecture
  • Layers
  • Primary rendering path
  • Notebook path
  • IPC model
  • Data flow
  • Design constraints
• API Reference
  • Stable Workflow Surface
  • Viewer And IPC
  • Datasets
  • Notebook Widgets
  • Cartography And Packaging
  • Buildings And Vector Export
  • Additional Current Modules
  • Related Pages

Tutorials

• Tutorials
  • GIS Track
  • Python Track
• Gallery
  • Mount Rainier
  • Mount Fuji Labels
  • Swiss Land-Cover
  • Luxembourg Rail Network
  • 3D Buildings
  • Point Cloud
  • Camera Flyover
  • Vector Export
  • Shadow Comparison
  • Map Plate

Viewer And Scene Ops

• Interactive Viewer
  • Interactive Viewer
  • Overview
  • Quick Start
  • Topics

Terrain Workflows

• TV1: Terrain Atmosphere Path Parity
• TV2: Terrain Output and Compositing Foundation
• TV3: Terrain Scatter and Population
• TV4: Terrain Material Variation Upgrade
• TV5: Terrain Local Probe Lighting
• TV10: Terrain Subsurface Materials
• Terrain Material Virtual Texturing
• TV21: Terrain Scatter Blend and Contact Shading

Product Notes

• Pro Boundary Notes
• forge3d Launch

Platform Overview

The current public workflow is intentionally small:

• forge3d.open_viewer_async() launches the Rust interactive_viewer binary.

• forge3d.ViewerHandle exposes the live control surface for terrain, overlays, point clouds, camera, lighting, and snapshots.

• forge3d.ViewerWidget wraps that same viewer flow for notebooks and falls back to an inline preview inside the widget when a full viewer process is unavailable.

• forge3d.datasets provides bundled samples and on-demand fetch helpers.

• forge3d.MapPlate, forge3d.bundle, and forge3d.export cover Pro-gated production packaging workflows around the live scene.

If you are new to the project, start with Quickstart, then walk one of the two tracks in Tutorials.