8 posts tagged with "graphics"

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.

It's here! 🥳 Today, we're excited to announce that WebGPU support has officially arrived in the PlayCanvas Editor.

PlayCanvas Bytes is where we talk about upcoming work with PlayCanvas and related topics.

Today we have our tech lead, Donovan and our graphics engineer, Gustav who are here to talk about work they've done and planning to do with the Shader Chunk system.

Our team has been working on a new lighting system for a while now, and it has reached the stage where we're excited to share it with the community!

Pool Demo from Solar Games using Clustered Lighting

Way back in 2014, PlayCanvas was the first WebGL Engine to integrate PBR (Physically Based Rendering). To mark the event, we built the Star-Lord tech demo:

The PlayCanvas team is super excited to announce the Editor support of glTF GLB conversion with model and animation imports.

This gives developers an order of magnitude reduction in load times compared to the JSON format while keeping similar gzipped download size.

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.