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PlayCanvas Engine Adds 2D Support - xSicKxBot - 06-18-2018 PlayCanvas Engine Adds 2D Support <div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/playcanvas-engine-adds-2d-support.gif" width="480" height="240" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>The <a href="http://playcanvas.com/">PlayCanvas</a> HTML5 game engine just added 2D support in the form of Sprites, texture atlases, animated sprites, sprite components and 9 patch support.</p> <p>From the <a href="https://blog.playcanvas.com/new-feature-2d-sprites-and-9-slicing/">PlayCanvas blog</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>PlayCanvas is one of the most popular ways to build 3D interactive web content today. But before 3D graphics was a thing, there was 2D graphics!</p> <p>Today we’re excited to launch the first part of our 2D graphics support. Great for building classic 2D games.</p> <p><img width="362" height="181" alt="" src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/playcanvas-engine-adds-2d-support.gif" /></p> <p>There are 5 great new features which will help you build 2D games using PlayCanvas.</p> </blockquote> <p>Those new features are:</p> <ul> <li>Texture Atlas assets</li> <li>Sprite Asset</li> <li>Sprite Component</li> <li>Sprite Editor</li> <li>9 Slicing </li> </ul> <p>For more details on the new 2D functionality in the PlayCanvas editor, be sure to check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4xMP-J7WlU">this hands-on video</a> where we illustrate how to import a texture atlas and use it to create 2D sprite animations:</p> <p align="center">[embedded content]</p> <p align="left">If you are interested in learning more about PlayCanvas, be sure to check out our two part tutorial on building a simple bowling title in PlayCanvas <a href="http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2017/05/25/PlayCanvas-Engine-Revisited.aspx">available here</a> and <a href="http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2017/05/30/PlayCanvas-Engine-Revisited-Bowling-with-PlayCanvas-Part-Two.aspx">here</a>.</p> <p class="under"> <span class="categories"><a class="catLinks" href="http://www.gamefromscratch.com/category/GameDev-News.aspx">GameDev News</a></span> <span class="tags"><a class="tagLinks" href="http://www.gamefromscratch.com/?tag=/HTML5" rel="tag">HTML5</a></span> </p> </div> |