For many years, lightmapping has been the mainstay of achieving low cost yet realistic lighting. However, it's rarely seen in WebGL applications because generating lightmaps requires third-party modelling applications with complex workflows in order to bake out textures.
All that changes today as we introduce Runtime Lightmap Generation into the PlayCanvas Engine.
Here's a link to full demo.
Time for an update from the PlayCanvas development team! Throughout March, you may have noticed some updates to the PlayCanvas Editor. In case, you've missed any of them, here's a run down of what's new.
It's been a long running issue that our Audio Source component wasn't quite feature-complete enough to do some of the more advanced features of an audio heavy game or interactive experience. Today, we're blowing those issues out of the water with a sonic boom!
Today's new features are part of our on-going process of making your PlayCanvas experience easier and easier. And despite the title, we've released some awesome changes today.
Time to take the wraps off the latest awesome feature in PlayCanvas. We're super-excited to unveil the PlayCanvas Profiler.
Forget about Twitter changing stars to hearts. PlayCanvas introduces Asset Folders!
Hi everyone! It's time for another Development Update. So without further ado...
Have you noticed that everybody seems to go on vacation in August? Not PlayCanvas! We've been burning the midnight oil to bring you a raft of new features and improvements to your favorite browser-based 3D engine. Want the deets? Read on!
It's been a busy few weeks at PlayCanvas towers. We've launched a bunch of new features today and over the last few weeks. So here's a quick summary!
PlayCanvas scripters rejoice! The Code Editor has just received a major upgrade. We have just deployed two new related features: