RAPTOR

Realtime Abstracted Path Tree Observer

A dangerously cool 3D filesystem explorer inspired by Jurassic Park’s iconic FNS scene.

It's a Unix system

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What Is This?

RAPTOR is a 3D filesystem navigator built with Rust + macroquad, designed to make browsing your folders feel like hacking the mainframe inside Jurassic Park.

Remember that overly dramatic scene where a kid exclaims

“It’s a UNIX system… I know this!”

and then flies through a cheesy 3D filesystem?

Yeah. That. But modern. Smooth. Glowy, because of course.

RAPTOR turns your directories and files into a neon-green cyber-grid of chunky blocks you can rotate around, scan, click on, and explore as if your PC security was being compromised by velociraptors.

Things

• 3D Blocks for every file and directory
• Orbiting Camera (right-click drag + scroll zoom)
• Navigation: h j k l to move, o/Enter to open, u/- to go up
• Automatic Directory Grid Layout
• Selection, Hover, and Glow Effects
• Raycast Block Picking
• Dynamic Block Heights (file size / children count)
• Scanning Intro Line (because retro sci-fi vibes)
• Breadcrumb Navigation
• Labels Toggle (Tab)
• Interactive UI Panels with live stats
• Smooth camera tweening
• Cool glowing wireframes because aesthetics

Navigation

Camera

• Right-mouse drag → Rotate
• Scroll wheel → Zoom

Navigation

• h → Left
• j → Down
• k → Up
• l → Right
• o or Enter → Enter directory
• u or - → Go to parent
• / → Go to root
• Home → Go to home directory
• Backspace/Esc → Back in history

Mouse

• Hover → Highlight block
• Click → Select
• Double click → Enter directory

UI

• . → Toggle hidden files
• Tab → Toggle labels

Why Jurassic Park?

Because FNS from Jurassic Park is legendary. It’s campy. It’s 90s CGI nonsense. It’s a cultural artifact.

And I thought:

“What if I recreate that… but actually make it FUN and SMOOTH and more 60 FPS… and with keybinds?”

And boom — RAPTOR hatched.

No dinosaurs were harmed in the making of this filesystem explorer. (Except maybe your CPU when opening a directory with 30k files.)

Running

cargo run --release

RAPTOR will open in all its neon glory.

Dependencies

RAPTOR is built using macroquad, a Rust game framework that works on Linux, macOS and Windows with minimal setup.

Macroquad repo (installation notes & troubleshooting): https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad

Future Ideas (aka InGen Phase 2)

• File previews
• Drag-and-drop
• Jurassic-Park-style “Access Denied” red windows
• Terminal overlay
• Dinosaur noises when selecting something
• VR version?? (life… finds a way)