About Bamboo

Game by Nico Müller, built with Three.js. Six original zen compositions accompany the garden. The garden monk announcer is generated speech; the effort sounds use credited human recordings. Some material textures are AI-generated artwork. Thanks to the artists and open asset libraries below.

• Three.js r180 and HDRLoader: Three.js, MIT. Full license: vendor/THREE-LICENSE.txt. Downloaded from the pinned three@0.180.0 package on jsDelivr.
• Forest Ground 04 diffuse and OpenGL normal maps, 1K: Poly Haven asset, by Rob Tuytel (photography/processing), Rico Cilliers (minor adjustment). CC0. Files renamed to ground-color.jpg and ground-normal.jpg.
• Brown Mud diffuse and bump maps, 2K: Poly Haven asset, by Rob Tuytel, CC0. Stored as soil-color.jpg and soil-height.jpg. Used for freshly exposed earth and loose soil with world-space projection.
• Bamboo surface photograph: Close-up texture of weathered bamboo poles, by A S M Jobaer, CC BY-SA 4.0. The 3840 px photograph is stored unmodified as bamboo-photo.jpg. The game samples a strip of one culm using UV coordinates, rotates its grain along the stems, derives subtle bump/roughness from it, and applies green or brown material tints. The photograph and these photo-derived material adaptations remain under CC BY-SA 4.0; attribution does not imply endorsement.
• Bark Brown 02 diffuse, OpenGL normal and roughness maps, 2K: Poly Haven asset, by Rob Tuytel, CC0. Stored as root-color.jpg, root-normal.jpg, and root-roughness.jpg. Used as fine woody surface detail on curved rhizomes, crowns, and feeder roots; this is bark photography, not a scan of a bamboo root system.
• Spruit Sunrise HDRI, 1K: Poly Haven asset, CC0. Stored as sunrise.hdr.
• Panda fur texture: panda-fur.png, an AI-generated ivory fur material created for this game with OpenAI image generation, not animal photography. Used with black/white vertex coloration and subtle relief on the procedural panda models.
• Equipment material atlas: tool-materials.png, an AI-generated four-surface atlas made with the built-in OpenAI image generation tool. Hickory wood grain, brushed steel, pebbled rubber and powder coating are cropped at load time into shared albedo and relief maps. Neutral surfaces are exposure-normalized before tinting. This is generated material artwork, not a photographic scan. Exact prompt: assets/tool-materials-prompt.txt.
• Bamboo leaf atlas: bamboo-leaves.png, four photorealistic leaf variants generated for this game with OpenAI image generation. This is an AI-generated botanical texture, not a photograph or a scan. Original transparent atlas retained; used on curved leaf meshes with material-based dry-leaf coloration.
• Bamboo, roots, foliage geometry, tools, grass, props, particles, textures not listed above, interface icons, were generated in code for this game.
• Zen music: six original compositions and procedural Web Audio instruments created for this game: Bamboo at Dawn, Rain on Stone, Lantern Pond, Moss Temple, Cloud Terrace, and Moonlit Rill. No external music recordings or streaming services.
• Machine textures: Metal Plate 02 and Rubber Tiles, Poly Haven CC0, 1K albedo, OpenGL normal, and roughness maps in machine-metal-* / machine-rubber-*. The metal photograph is cropped and exposure-normalized at load time for painted surfaces. These photographs provide surface detail; the vehicle models are original procedural geometry.
• Impact and footstep Foley: Kenney Impact Sounds, CC0. Eighteen unmodified OGG variations of wood, plank, mining, metal and grass sounds. License: assets/sfx/KENNEY-LICENSE.txt.
• Human exertion voice: EFFORT SOUNDS (Male), recorded by VoiceBosch, CC BY-SA 4.0. Clips 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 14, 15 have been high-pass filtered, loudness normalized and converted to mono MP3; the adapted recordings remain CC BY-SA 4.0. Files: assets/sfx/effort-*.mp3. Attribution does not imply endorsement.
• Chainsaw: Chainsaw.wav by esperri, CC0. Uses seconds 3–8 of the public high-quality preview, normalized and encoded as chainsaw.mp3.
• Diesel motor: Marine diesel engine by AugustSandberg, CC0. Uses seconds 5–13, normalized and encoded as diesel.mp3; the original is a marine engine recording used here for the tracked vehicles.
• Vacuum: Vacuum Cleaner 02 - short by Huminaatio, CC0. Uses seconds 6–12, normalized and encoded as vacuum.mp3.
• Fire: Fire Crackling by AntumDeluge, CC0, flame.ogg. Decoded loop seams are crossfaded in the browser.
• Additional whooshes, lasers, explosion layers, whistle, birds and feedback tones are original procedural effects.
• Garden monk announcer: 36 original English lines synthesized offline with Qwen3-TTS VoiceDesign, using the MLX 4-bit model (Apache 2.0) through MLX Audio. The fictional character is a warm, elderly Chinese garden monk speaking clear English with a gentle accent. This is AI-generated speech from a written character description, not a recording or imitation of a real person. The 24 kHz mono MP3 files retain their generated pitch and timing. Catalog: announcer-lines.js; prompt and generation metadata: assets/voice/monk/render-manifest.json; reproducible build script: scripts/render-announcer.py. Previous announcer recordings remain in the source archive but are excluded from the public game.

Full asset attribution · Three.js license · Kenney license