Almost 5 months after the previous release the open-source Rust powered cross-platform 2D/3D data driven game engine/framework Bevy just released Bevy 0.15. Key features of this release include:
- Required Components: A rethink of how spawning entities works that significantly improves the Bevy user experience
- Entity Picking / Selection: A modular system for selecting entities across contexts
- Animation Improvements: generalized entity animation, animation masks, additive blending, and animation events
- Curves: a new
Curvetrait, cyclic splines, common easing functions, color gradient curves - Reflection Improvements: Function reflection, unique reflect, remote type reflection
- Bevy Remote Protocol (BRP): A new protocol that allows external clients (such as editors) to interact with running Bevy games
- Visibility Bitmask Ambient Occlusion (VBAO): An improved GTAO algorithm that improves ambient occlusion quality
- Chromatic Aberration: A new post processing effect that simulates lenses that fail to focus light to a single point
- Volumetric Fog Improvements: “Fog volumes” that define where volumetric fog is rendered (and what form it takes), along with Point Lights and Spotlight compatibility
- Order Independent Transparency: A new opt-in transparency algorithm that improves the stability / quality of transparent objects as their distance from the camera changes
- Improved Text Rendering: We’ve switched to Cosmic Text for our text rendering, which significantly improves our ability to render text, especially for non-Latin-based languages that require font shaping and bidirectional text
- Gamepads as Entities: Gamepads are now represented as entities, making them much easier to interact with
- UI Box Shadows: Bevy UI nodes can now render configurable box shadows
Key Links
You can learn more about the Bevy 0.15 release in the video below.