Kris Bamrah

Editor 2.35 is out, and it changes the first page you see. playcanvas.com/editor is now a projects home of its own, and the project management you used to do on the playcanvas.com projects page has moved into it: search, stars, forks, transfers, project settings, dev logs, teams, organizations and new projects.

The same page is also where an AI agent can now connect over MCP, before any project is open. From there it can list, create, rename and open your projects.

Editor 2.34 is out, two weeks after 2.32, and it is built around Engine 2.23. The headline is a new Inspector launch option: tick one box and your launched app comes up with a full debug panel docked beside it, where you can pause it, step it a frame at a time, pick entities straight out of the viewport and draw the physics world.

Alongside it: rigidbodies get a per-body Gravity Scale, Gaussian splats get a new Splat Budget Mode and their LOD distances back, particles can opt out of fog and tonemapping, and, from 2.33, you can throw away everything since your last checkpoint with Discard All.

Editor 2.32 is out, and it leads with something that has been a long time coming: the Joint component. Hinges, sliders, ball joints, springs and breakable welds are now things you configure in the inspector rather than assemble from a script.

There is more to it than that. Materials get ray-marched parallax occlusion, the render component gets per-cascade shadow control, text elements can finally justify, and the Gaussian splat LOD controls have been reworked.

This is also the first of what we intend to make a regular thing. Plenty has shipped in the Editor over the past year without ever being written up, so from here on we will be posting about Editor releases far more often — shorter posts, closer to the release, instead of waiting for one big enough to justify the effort.

Today we are unveiling our new PlayCanvas VSCode Extension!

The PlayCanvas VS Code Extension is a realtime editing environment for text-based assets from the PlayCanvas Editor platform.

Today, we are thrilled to announce the open sourcing of the PlayCanvas Editor Frontend!

The PlayCanvas Editor is a powerful visual editing environment for building WebGL, WebGPU, and WebXR applications. It has been the cornerstone of countless incredible projects, many of which you can explore on the PlayCanvas website. While the PlayCanvas Engine has always been open source, the Editor Frontend, a key component of the PlayCanvas ecosystem, has not. That changes today!