Headless Three.js WebGPU (rgl) — tool skill for tools & renderers

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Render three.js scenes or GLB files to PNG, MP4, WebM or GIF in Node with Dawn WebGPU: no browser, fixed-step frames.

What it does

An agent skill shipped inside @rendergl/headless-three-webgpu-cli (render.gl). The package is a Node.js renderer that runs three.js's WebGPU backend on Dawn (Metal, Vulkan, or SwiftShader on CPU-only hosts) with no browser or display. rgl video renders a GLB turntable or dolly, or a custom scene module whose update(delta) runs once per frame with delta = 1 / fps, and streams raw RGBA frames to ffmpeg as MP4, MOV, WebM or GIF. rgl render, inspect and bench cover stills, asset checks and benchmarks. Two sibling skills ship in the other packages: rgl-core (programmatic render, readPixels, toBuffer) and rgl-gltf. It is beta: the repo has 8 stars and the package is at v0.2. Frames render in order from zero, so scene modules must derive motion from the fixed delta, never from the wall clock.

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Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/rendergl-headless-three.mp4 — README cover GIF: a wall of GLB objects rendered headlessly with three.js on WebGPU/Dawn, lighting sweeping across the grid. Full 2.5 s loop (hosted on imgur, embedded in the README). (credit: Or Fleisher (headless-three-webgpu), https://github.com/juniorxsound/headless-three-webgpu#readme)

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