Ray Marching, Blender Workflows, and Node Graphs

Mijocraft is a 2d Minecraft clone that recently gained a new main, world selection, and pause menus as well as player customization and other features.

A proof of concept for a vampire survivors style game where player upgrades are nodes in a graph, with the goal of large amounts of player freedom.

This demo shows off ray marched and rasterized mesh graphics playing together nicely. Any object with a reflection is raymarched and without reflections are meshes.

A second Quartz visual programming and dsp playground demo: targets go spinny. This one, as usual, is audio-heavy and best viewed at the link on YouTube.

This is scripting where all the nodes are fully automatically generated. It compiles to a VM and then runs in rust, using reflect, and reflect on functions!

Publishing this work would require function reflection and currently relies on a number of forks, but is on GitHub for those that are interested.

Gunbug is a 2D online co-op horde survival shoot'em up. It focuses shooting lots of enemies with lots of guns. About a year's worth of work has gone into the project so far and it is available to wishlist on steam.

Blender-inspired transform controls that can constrain to global or local axes

Brackeys recently started posting videos on YouTube again, shifting from Unity to Godot-based videos. With that, they've posted a beginner-level 2d-platformer tutorial.

This showcase is an attempt to port the end result of that tutorial to Bevy. The implementation uses a few crates that are, in my opinion, well established and common choices:

• bevy_ecs_ldtk powers level creation
• bevy_xpbd_2d powers colliders and sensors
• leafwing-input-manager additionally powers input management

It also uses bevy_collider_gen which is a lesser-known crate that creates xpbd colliders from images with transparency, and bevy_editor_pls as an in-app editor.

The implementation uses Bevy 0.13.2.

An MS Paint style editor, entirely in Bevy without external crates.

This demo shows off the first working version of bevy_ecs_tilemap combined with a 2d depth texture to allow a player character to walk through the middle of a tile image. In this case its the player walking through the middle of an arch tile. More work needs to be done to get the math for the depth values working well.

A new crate for making terminal games in Bevy! It is not yet published, but supports a number of features including:

• alpha blending
• raw terminal input
• sprites from images
• text overlay

Blender_bevy_components_workflow is a project that pushes Blender/Bevy integration forward using Blender addons and Bevy crates. This showcase shows off a number of features in the upcoming release, including full-level hot-reloading, blueprints, and more.

The project is going to be renamed to blenvy and we'll cover it again then. Until then there's plenty of extra videos and information in the Discord thread.

Quartz is a visual programming and dsp playground and now has a deployed wasm build as well, which you can learn to use in the README.

This is a piece done using Quartz, which you'll want to listen to using the YouTube link or the Discord thread.

Did you know Bevy supports lightmaps? lightmapping workflows were unlocked with 0.13's release using tools like The Lightmapper and Blender.

this is a demo of Bevy's lightmap support and uses The Lightmapper and Blender to bake the lightmaps. The scene is a glTF and the lightmaps are inserted on each model individually.

Initial work on a HUD and worldspace diagetic UI using bevy_lunex in the bevypunk example.

These spore-ish creatures we've seen in past issues got cone-marched fractal worlds to explore. Cone marching is a progression from raymarching that expands rays to have thickness.

The first triangle rendered using Bevy and custom directx rendering, demo is available on GitHub. This is an extremely interesting example if you're interested in low-level rendering implementation but will not apply to the vast majority of Bevy users and isn't planned to be upstreamed.

In the vein of super monkey ball or marble it up this is a marble/sphere controller in a level. It is the first steps towards recreating this style of game.