This Week in Bevy

What happened this week in the Bevy Engine ecosystem

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Bevy 0.15 Released, vaporwave shaders, and bottle flipping

2024-12-02

Bevy 0.15 is out now! Check out the release notes and the migration guide. If you want an audiovisual tour of the release, here's a YouTube video as well.

The release candidate process seems to be working well as many crates have already updated to support 0.15 although be sure to save some space to those that haven't, many ecosystem crates are maintained by people in their free time. We won't be listing all of the crates that updated so check in with your dependencies if you're looking to upgrade.

With that we've got some exciting showcases this week, including a vaporwave demo, a throwback to water bottle flipping, and exciting upcoming features for Avian physics.

Showcase

Bevy work from the #showcase channel in Discord and around the internet. Use hashtag #bevyengine.

tiled loading

Tiled Loading

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Loading a single, really big Tiled file, and spawning/droping tiles based on a quad tree system.

varg steam page

VARG

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VARG is a love letter to the classic MS-DOS “boomer shooter” genre, with a modern investigative twist. Set in the distant year of 1996, the game is loosely inspired by Brazil's most iconic UFO case.

Varg now has a Steam page.

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vaporwave

Vaporwave

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Vaporwave aesthetics in Bevy using shaders. It parses custom gltf attributes generated in Blender to mark visible edges for a more customizable wireframe look, and allows for "solid" wireframe. Check out the YouTube video or the wasm demo.

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murmuration

murmuration simulation

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a murmuration simulation, using Bevy 0.15-rc.3, bevy_spatial, and a low-poly model of a roasted turkey

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avian transform interpolation

built-in Transform interpolation for Avian

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Built-in Transform interpolation and extrapolation support for Avian physics, powered by the new bevy_transform_interpolation.

2d visibility

2d visibility

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2d raycasting powered visibility mechanics. The new mesh is generated every frame.

dark omen engine

Dark Omen "engine"

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Progress on a Warhammer: Dark Omen engine that now includes mini map, magic points systems, particle effects, and more.

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Cozy Pixel Art

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New pixel art details for this cozy game.

minions

Minions!

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The player leads around his minions, who destroy incoming enemies with their fireball spell

sliding menu

Mercator Menu

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bevy_cobweb_ui powers Mercator's menu system. The implementation includes hot-reloadable UI elements and animation.

space simspace sim orbits

Lens Flare Space Sim

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This is the result of the big_space plugin with a Keplerian orbit physics system and a custom multi-node post-processing pass to enable lens flares.

game of life

Game of Life

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Game of Life was the choice for this first-time Bevy user.

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Spaceflight Simulation

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A spaceflight simulation game featuring a vast star system and realistic orbital physics.

bottle flip dreams

Bottle Flip Dreams

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Bottle Flip Dreams is a throwback to the golden days of bottle flipping. Its a phsyics-based bottle-flipping platformer built with Avian physics. The game has a demo on Itch but the control scheme is meant for mobile devices so I'm looking forward to seeing this one ship on app stores.

torp

Torp

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Torp is a laid-back colony simulator set in the Viking Age that has been in development for a year and a half. The game is still under heavy development and this is the first reveal.

pathfinding and combat

Pathfinding and Combat

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More work on enemy pathfinding and basic combat.

skillbar

Skillbar

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A skillbar made with bevy_mod_actuate

jarl z-ordering

Jarl z-ordering

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Jarl rewrote one of its oldest components: the z-ordering system. The new system is based on layers, static/dynamic sorting groups and pivot point components.

jigsaw puzzle

Jigsaw Puzzle

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A bevy 0.15-rc.3-based jigsaw puzzle, open source on github.

GitHub

Crates

New releases to crates.io and substantial updates to existing projects

Actuate 0.11

crate_release

Actuate is a framework for declarative programming in Rust (with support for Bevy UI and scenes). 0.11 brings more concise syntax, borrowed observers, and more.

GitHub

bevy-glxf-loader

crate_release

glXF (https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-External-Reference) is an extremely simple JSON-based scene format that essentially just lets you arrange glTFs or other glXF files in a nested hierarchy, name them, and apply transforms to them. bevy-glxf-loader implements a BEVY_components extension that lets you add arbitrary components to nodes, so you can use it as an alternative to BSN.

GitHub
egui_taffy

egui_taffy

crate_release

egui_taffy integrates taffy with egui to enable support for Flexbox and Grid layouts. The integration boasts hot-reloading of UI for development.

GitHub
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