Tired of watching your frame rate drop after adding too many models to your game?

GPU instancing automatically groups all models by their mesh and material to reduce the number of draw calls rendered to the minimum.

No need to setup batch groups and assign them manually, all models will be automatically instanced on runtime.

Supports both Model and Render components with all of their properties for dynamic lighting (static lightmaps are not supported).

Changing any component property on runtime will update the instancing groups automatically, no need to regenerate batch groups!

Your models can now include easy to use level of details by simple tagging the entity name with a suffix “_LOD2”.

It’s that simple! The instancing script will automatically toggle on/off the corresponding level of detail against the active camera.

You can set both global LOD distance levels, and optional local, per model, levels.

Open world games usually demand large numbers of models drawn e.g. for rocks, grass, trees etc.

Using the PlayCanvas per entity frustum culling solution can lead to massive performance drop for large number of entities.

Instancer can partition your entities in a grid, that you can size, and do frustum culling on each cell instead.

Works great with the Painter to quickly spawn massive amounts of models without hindering performance.

Instancer requires minimum setup and can seamlessly integrate to your PlayCanvas project.

It will identify any model or render component that doesn’t support instancing e.g. skinned models or UI elements and skip them.

At the same time it can work in parallel with PlayCanvas CPU batching so you can get the best of both worlds, if you require it so.

You can easily exclude any entity by using a special tag and also control with layers should be excluded completely.

Together with Editor Scripting, works in the editor, too!

Leveraging WebGL 2.0 hardware queries, a plug-and-play system is provided to easily set up your occluders and occludees for runtime occlusion culling to improve performance.

A powerful system that can work with multiple occluders (batching is supported to minimize draw calls) and occludees manages the visibility state of one or more objects.

Custom events can be fired on each occludee for use in gameplay-specific logic.

Easily add zones inside the PlayCanvas editor using regular box collision shapes.

The GPU Instancer will automatic toggle any referenced objects on/off based on the position of the active camera, to increase performance by controlling when areas of your world render.

A vast number of properties to fully control your terrain look.

You can easily generate mountains, lakes and islands. Control the terrain size and complexity.

Easily find the right settings by playing on real-time with each parameter.

You can easily generate any number of LODs required by your application.

The Terrain Generator uses a special library to reduce the number of triangles rendered (RTIN terrain mesh generation).

All LOD variations will be generated in the web worker. They work seamlessly with the GPU Instancer on runtime.

The terrain can be easily textured by using as many texture channels as supported by your GPU.

Each texture channel can be mapped on the terrain surface based on height and slope.

Support for diffuse & diffuse with tint, normal and optional noise textures is provided.

Three unique noise textures can be used to control various aspects of the terrains presentation, making it look natural and unique.

A noise variation texture can help break the visual pattern that seamless textures generate.

A border noise texture gives you fine control on how texture channels blend with each other.

A diffuse noise texture can provide additional detail on the final channel pixel color.

A powerful object distributor that can procedurally spawn entities and objects on the terrain is provided.

Using a fast BVH raycasting solution it can accurately spawn huge number of objects on your terrain.

You can control their position by using the terrain color, height range, slope angle and even an optional valid surface (objects can spawn on top of other objects).

Using the GPU Instancer you can spawn huge numbers of models to cover your terrain like grass and rocks.

Works in the web worker, too!

Using regular Mesh Colliders for terrains is slow and can easily get your project to run out of memory.

We are generating instead heightfields in the Web Worker allowing us to generate a collision shape, even for large terrains, in a couple of milliseconds.

Easily create navigation zones of your levels on runtime using a WASM build of Recast.

Control which objects are included in the navmesh generation with full control of the process through a multitude of properties.

Create one or more agents and group them in crowds. Agents can navigate solo or in groups, avoid stationary or dynamic obstacles, and of course each other!

Easily issue navigation actions for one or more agents at the same time.

The powerful player controller included in Solar Tools has been updated to seamlessly work with the Pathfinder.

Easily create your own top down player controller. Animations and networking work out of the box. Regular keyboard/mouse/gamepad input too!

Enable editor scripting for any existing or new PlayCanvas script by adding a single attribute.

The Editor browser extension will parse each editor enabled script when the editor loads and execute them.

Write your own tools for the PlayCanvas editor or simple view the result of your runtime scripts in editor.

Click and drag on any surface (including on Terrains) to paint one or more entities in place.

The script will automatically raycast to find a valid point on top of a rigid body surface. The entity will be placed with accuracy and if required aligned to the surface normal.

Easily control the number of entities to spawn, the distance between each brush stroke and if required add randomization for rotation and scale.

Easy to use interface exposed directly on each painter script instance.

You can switch between painting and erasing mode, preview your brush stokes and save them to the data file when you are ready.

Easily drag and drop the Multiplayer scripts in your scene and get networking on any Player Controller.

You can setup a simple Colyseus server using our ready to deploy template and enjoy all the merits of networking.

Stream video to any 3D surface and to all connected players. Multiple sources supported:

– Web camera

– Screen share

– External cloud provider

Add positional voice chat to enable your players to locate each other using positional and directional 3D audio.

Using the powerful Agora SDK and streaming services to get crystal clear performant voice chat between multiple players.

A simple to use text chat system that automatically connects to your multiplayer server and provides app wide chat.

Users can type text messages with emoji support and they are automatically broadcasted to any other connected player.