Newsletter – Issue 006

📆 2023-01-24

🔥 Headlines

🎙 The interview with Dek, creator of JavaScript MMORPG Hordes (opens in a new tab), is out! A truly inspiring journey. 💯

Good news for PlayCanvas (opens in a new tab) users! PlayCanvas now supports importing GLB / gLTF files into the Editor (opens in a new tab), including 100% of ratified glTF extensions (opens in a new tab). It is also possible to directly edit the imported models' materials and hook up their animations with PlayCanvas' animation system. In other news, Steven Yau (opens in a new tab) created a user script to load Editor Plugin scripts (opens in a new tab). It is not an official PlayCanvas feature at the moment.

Not a single JavaScript game won the GitHub Game Off 2022 (opens in a new tab)... But a lot of the winning games are playable online via WebAssembly. You might want to take your chance with the Global Game Jam (opens in a new tab) at your local jam site (opens in a new tab).

R3F v8.10.0 (opens in a new tab) – Adds Canvas shadow prop shortcuts (opens in a new tab) ('basic', 'percentage', 'soft', 'variance').
Drei v9.54 (opens in a new tab) – yomotsu (opens in a new tab)'s camera-controls (opens in a new tab) library is now available via <CameraControls>. It is similar to OrbitControls with added features like smooth animations, camera collisions, or zoom and shake effects.
Babylon.js v5.43.0 (opens in a new tab)

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