Newsletter โ Issue 009
๐ฅ Headlines
Solar Games (opens in a new tab) released their Uranus
Tools (opens in a new tab) for PlayCanvas (opens in a new tab), a collection of
drag-and-drop scripts that extend the PlayCanvas editor with features such as automatic GPU
instancing, open-world terrains, advanced material effects, a cross-platform multiplayer-enabled
player controller, 3D spatial audio chat, video and screen sharing, and a lot more. They use Uranus
Tools in the updated demo of
Aritelia (opens in a new tab), which looks better
than ever!
Roman Liutikov (opens in a new tab) open-sourced
ThreeGN (opens in a new tab) (repo (opens in a new tab)), a port of
Blender's geometry nodes system for the browser using React Flow (opens in a new tab) and
Three.js (opens in a new tab). Read his devlog
article (opens in a new tab) for more details. Note that Roman
doesn't intend to evolve the project. It is a proof of concept that others may use as a foundation
to build upon.
Felix Zhang (opens in a new tab) published
LogXR (opens in a new tab), a WebXR console for Three.js
(support for Babylon.js coming soon). Felix also developed the Immersive Web
Emulator (opens in a new tab) mentioned in
last week's issue.
In the native world, Godot 4.0 RC
1 (opens in a new tab) got released, and the Godot
Editor is now available on Google
Play (opens in a new tab).
๐ Tools & Updates
R3F v8.11.0 (opens in a new tab) โ Allow
raycast without user
interaction (opens in a new tab)
via update()by 0xca0a (opens in a new tab).- r3f-form 2.0 (opens in a new tab) by
John Beresford (opens in a new tab). Create inputs and forms in R3F. It relies on
the Troika 3D Text (opens in a new tab) library.
- PlayCanvas v1.61.0 (opens in a new tab) โ Last
week, I didn't mention that v1.61.0 brings UI scroll views in
XR (opens in a new tab), faster clustered lighting shader
compile time, and WebGPU support for texture-based morphing and light
cookies (opens in a new tab).
Phaser Editor 2D v3.60 Beta
1 (opens in a new tab) by Arian
Fornaris (opens in a new tab) with Nine Slice Game Object support.
Babylon.js v5.46.0 (opens in a new tab) โ
TypeScript version update (4.6.2 to 4.9.4).
โ๏ธ Content
- ๐ฌ Three.js reflective grid with energy wave (opens in a new tab) (live stream) by Yuri Artiukh (opens in a new tab)
- ๐ฌ
Getting started with TresJS (opens in a new tab) and Basic animations with TresJS (opens in a new tab) by Alvaro Sabu (opens in a new tab) - ๐ฌ
React.js: The Documentary (opens in a new tab) by Honeypot (opens in a new tab) (there is also a Vue documentary (opens in a new tab))
- ๐ฆ Use Bloom Pass to make some objects act as lights (opens in a new tab) by Anderson Mancini (opens in a new tab)
- ๐ฆ Using custom properties on meshes in Blender (opens in a new tab) by Hugo Wiledal (opens in a new tab)
- ๐ฆ Mini tutorial on making WebGL look good (opens in a new tab) by 0xca0a (opens in a new tab)
- โ๏ธ Camera Fly-through on Scroll Using Theatre.js (opens in a new tab) by Andrew Prifer (opens in a new tab)
- โ๏ธ The Gooey Effects With Shader (opens in a new tab) by Misaki Nakano (opens in a new tab)
- โ๏ธ ECMAScript Embedded Bitmap Encoding proposal (opens in a new tab) (follow-up (opens in a new tab)) by Mark Vasilkov (opens in a new tab)
- โ๏ธ Fundamental Math for Game Developers (opens in a new tab) by Gustavo Pezzi (opens in a new tab).
I also added a ๐ Fundamental Math (opens in a new tab) page referencing Gustavo's article and other video resources.
โจ Games & Demos
- ๐ฎ Ducklings (opens in a new tab) by Pelican
Party (opens in a new tab). Swim around to find your lost ducklings! ๐ฆ
- ๐ฎ Double Dodgers (opens in a new tab) by Pelican
Party (opens in a new tab). Do not play this game while walking on the street. ๐ถ
- ๐ฎ Rago (opens in a new tab) by
mjurczyk (opens in a new tab). The forklift-certified cat is urgently needed! ๐บ
- ๐ฎ T5C (opens in a new tab) โ Work-in-progress multiplayer 3D top-down RPG
(progress (opens in a new tab),
article (opens in a new tab),
source (opens in a new tab)). Uses Colyseus (opens in a new tab). ๐ฆ
- โจ Forest (opens in a new tab)
(demo (opens in a new tab)), a React Three Fiber reproduction of
this scene (opens in a new tab), by Hugo
Wiledal (opens in a new tab). ๐ณ
See more on the โจ Games & Demos (opens in a new tab) page or ๐ฎ WebGamer.io (opens in a new tab).
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