We've just launched "Scripts 2.0", a complete re-design and re-implementation of the scripting system for PlayCanvas applications. Our goals were to fix an array of small irritations that had built up over using the PlayCanvas scripting for the last few years and take the opportunity to clean up the interface and simplify the creation and usage of scripts.
May is drawing to a close and it's starting to feel like summer here in London. Let's celebrate with a PlayCanvas Dev Update! We've been busy bees, so here's a rundown of the main changes.
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!