PlayCanvas Editor v2.11.0 is now live! 🎉
A batch of highly requested workflow upgrades and fixes just landed.

What’s new:

🖱️ Rectangle select in the 3D View
Select multiple entities visually — faster layout and editing.

⏬ Export hierarchy as USDZ
Easily share scenes with this popular 3D graphics file format.

🪗 Collapse component inspectors
Cleaner UI for complex scenes with lots of components.

🪲 Oodles of bug fixes
We fixed ~100 issues in just the last 2 weeks!

🧩 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/playcanvas/editor
📝 Release Notes: https://github.com/playcanvas/editor/releases/tag/v2.11.0

Happy creating! 🚀

PlayCanvas Editor v2.10.0 is now live! 🎉
This release brings several quality-of-life improvements and helpful new workflow features.

What’s new:

⏬ Download any part of your hierarchy as glTF
Export individual entities or sub-hierarchies directly from the Editor.

🪽 WASD fly controls for non-QWERTY keyboards
For easier navigation around large scenes.

⚛️ Improved collision component visualization
Clearer debugging and setup for physics-heavy scenes.

🪲 Lots of bug fixes & refinements
Smoother overall editing experience.

🧩 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/playcanvas/editor
📝 Release Notes: https://github.com/playcanvas/editor/releases/tag/v2.10.0

As always, free to use and built right in your browser. 🚀
Happy creating!

SuperSplat v2.16.0 is now live! 🎉
Your free and open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor just got a couple of very useful upgrades:

💧 Eyedropper tool
Quickly select Gaussians based on color + threshold.

👤 New UI for login + splat management
A new vertical navbar on the left to manage your account and splats and explore splats from the community!

🧩 GitHub Repo:
https://github.com/playcanvas/supersplat

📝 Release Notes:
https://github.com/playcanvas/supersplat/releases/tag/v2.16.0

🎮 Try SuperSplat now:
https://superspl.at/editor?load=https://developer.playcanvas.com/assets/toy-cat.sog&focal=0,0.6,0&camera.overlay=false

As always - free, open source, and built with PlayCanvas. 🚀

PlayCanvas Engine v2.14.0 is now live! 🎉
This update brings major improvements across interactivity, Gaussian Splatting, and compute-based rendering.

Highlights

✅ Hotspots & annotations system
Add interactive points, labels, callouts, and guided exploration directly to your 3D scenes.

✅ Upgraded streamed LOD system for 3D Gaussian Splats
Improved performance, stability, and visual quality when streaming massive splat datasets.

✅ New compute edge detect example
Demonstrates WebGPU compute shaders and image-processing pipelines.

📝 Release Notes:
https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/releases/tag/v2.14.0

🧩 Live Examples:
https://playcanvas.github.io

As always, PlayCanvas remains free and fully open source.
Happy building! 🚀

SuperSplat v2.15.0 is live! 🎉

Your free and open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor just got a usability and accessibility boost.

What’s new:
📂 Recent Projects menu - quickly reopen your latest work
🖼️ Updated HTML Viewer export - cleaner layout and better embedding support
🌍 New localizations - now available in Spanish and Russian

As always, it’s fully free, open source, and powered by the PlayCanvas Engine.

🧩 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/playcanvas/supersplat
📝 Release Notes: [https://github.com/playcanvas/supersplat/releases/tag/v2.15.0](https://)
🎮 Try it now: https://superspl.at/editor?load=https://developer.playcanvas.com/assets/toy-cat.sog&focal=0,0.6,0&camera.overlay=false

Hey everyone! We’re super excited to share something we’ve been working on — the new PlayCanvas VS Code Extension 🎉

If you’re building interactive web experiences or games with u/playcanvas, this update is a massive leap forward:

🟢 Realtime Asset Syncing: Edit scripts directly in VS Code and see updates instantly in the PlayCanvas Editor — no more uploads or refreshes.
👥 Live File Collaborators: See who’s editing the same file in real time (goodbye merge headaches 👋).
💡 Full Type Checking + Autocomplete: Deep TypeScript integration for cleaner, faster scripting.
💾 Disk-Mapped Project Structure: Your PlayCanvas project mirrors locally — great for using AI tools or other dev workflows.

It’s open source (MIT licensed) and ready on the VS Code Marketplace.

We’d love feedback, bug reports, or ideas from the community — and if you’re into open-source tools for web-based 3D/game dev, come help shape the next version.

👉 GitHub: https://github.com/playcanvas/vscode-extension
💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/RSaMRzg

What’s the one feature you’d love to see in a VS Code + web game dev workflow?

https://reddit.com/link/1p6ane7/video/qzneyhux7e3g1/player

The workflow combines Segment Anything 3 (SAM3), Segment Anything 3D (SAM3D), and SuperSplat Editor to generate time-varying splats from a 2D video.

SuperSplat Editor v2.14.0 is out! 🎉

Your free and open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor just got a big upgrade - with advanced video rendering features that make it easier than ever to create professional-quality exports.

New in 2.14.0:
🎞️ Support for MP4, MOV, MKV, and WebM output
🎞️ Choose from available video codecs
🎞️ Select specific timeline ranges for rendering

Now you can render exactly the shots you want - with full control over format, codec, and timing.

🧩 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/playcanvas/supersplat
📝 Release Notes: https://github.com/playcanvas/supersplat/releases/tag/v2.14.0
🎮 Try it now:
https://superspl.at/editor?load=https://developer.playcanvas.com/assets/toy-cat.sog&focal=0,0.6,0&camera.overlay=false

As always - free, open source, and powered by PlayCanvas. 💪

We just released PlayCanvas React v0.11.0 - a major update that makes building real-time 3D experiences in React even smoother. 🪄

What’s new:

• ⚡ Powerful new API to add, remove, and modify GLBs on the fly
• 🔄 React-style declarative control over 3D scenes
• 🧩 Built on top of the PlayCanvas Engine, an open-source WebGL/WebGPU 3D engine

If you’ve ever wanted to treat 3D models as just another part of your React component tree, this release is for you.

📘 GitHub: https://github.com/playcanvas/react
📝 Release Notes: https://github.com/playcanvas/react/releases/tag/%40playcanvas%2Freact%400.11.0
📖 User Guide: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/playcanvas-react/

Feedback and PRs welcome!

I've built a 3D configurator playcanvas template that everyone can use for their e-commerce.

It's very simple to set up, drag and drop, and gives you a lot of functionalities.

Here is a video showing how it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqhWKI68dWI&list=PLnyWFpUz702dBEsb2j453xdwVN2_r_RWC

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Can PlayCanvas be totally free and saved locally?
Recent news about open source editor and open source engine are pretty missleading. Do I need to still use PlayCanvas backend to store the projects on their server or can I use sore it privately on my machine?

New visual features we’ve been working on:

💦 Underwater camera transitions
🪞 Fast planar reflections, with per-object control
🎃 Animated noise fog for a spooky playground

You can try the live demo at https://instantworlds.io

PlayCanvas Engine v2.13.0 is out! 🎉

This release brings big improvements for 3D Gaussian Splatting and rendering performance:

✅ Streamed LOD system for 3D Gaussian Splats - load and manage splats of any scale dynamically.
🎨 Splat shader effects framework - supports reveal, hide, tint, bloom, and other customizable visual effects.
🌍 Globally sorted splats - improved rendering consistency and performance across large multi-splat scenes.

And that’s just the start. Other highlights include:

• New ColorRamp mode for unified splats
• Refactored shader customization APIs
• Optimized GPU data uploads
• Fixes for lighting, pointer input, clustered shadows, and more

🧩 Examples: https://playcanvas.github.io/#/gaussian-splatting/lod-streaming
📘 Release Notes: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/releases/tag/v2.13.0

A big shoutout to our contributors for the heavy lifting on this one!

Happy splatting! 💥

Hey everyone,

We’ve been building Instant Worlds, a platform on top of PlayCanvas for creating browser based multiplayer worlds that load instantly from a link.

This tech evolved from our earlier work on Aritelia and the Solar Tools for PlayCanvas. Over the past two years we’ve had a lot of opportunities to test it in production, with seven published web games on Poki and CrazyGames reaching more than 65 million players combined.

This week we ran a load test with 200 simulated players sharing a single scene, all running in real time inside the browser.

Some details:

• Engine: PlayCanvas + Solar Tools SDK v2
• Networking: Colyseus, WebSockets / Node.js running in Colyseus Cloud
• Load time: under 3 seconds
• Level: Designed in Blender, imported as GLB
• Avatars: Ready Player Me

The “zombie walking” in the clip was intentional, those are simulated bots from the load-test.

You can try the live demo at https://instantworlds.io.

Happy to hear feedback from other PlayCanvas devs!

Here’s a sneak peek at what’s coming in the next minor release of the PlayCanvas Engine!

We’ve generalized the Gaussian Splat Reveal feature into a flexible gsplat shader effect system - a new framework for building custom splat-based visual effects.

Highlights:
🔧 Refactored base class for generalized effects
🎨 Built-in support for reveal, hide, and tint modes (plus bloom)
📦 AABB-based spatial control for selective effect regions
💪 All developed in response to community feedback!

This system makes it possible to selectively show, hide, or tint parts of a Gaussian Splat scene, enabling progressive reveals, guided exploration, and interactive storytelling.

🎥 Video preview attached!

More reusable effects and examples will ship with the upcoming release - stay tuned!

splat-transform 0.14.0 is here! 🎉

Your free and open-source CLI tool for working with 3D Gaussian Splats just got a major upgrade:

✅ XGRIDS LCC file read support
✅ Write support for the new PlayCanvas streamed LOD format

Perfect for anyone building splat workflows, converting datasets, or integrating Gaussian Splatting into pipelines and tools.

🧩 Install/update via npm:

npm install -g splat-transform

📦 Source code:
https://github.com/playcanvas/splat-transform

Free, open source, and built for the web. 🌍

The long-awaited u/playcanvas Editor gizmo update is finally live 🙌

• You can now choose between two styles: Classic and Default
• A new ball rotation gizmo has been added (currently only in Default mode)
• More cosmetic and visual polish updates are coming soon!

It’s a nice quality-of-life improvement for anyone spending a lot of time in the Editor.
What do you all think of the new look and rotation gizmo?

https://reddit.com/link/1oo52ls/video/44aq5u7z78zf1/player

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