Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

Since our last release a few months ago we’ve added a ton of new features, bug fixes, and quality of life tweaks, but here are some of the highlights:

• Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO): Increase scene render quality by simulating occlusion of “indirect” diffuse light
• Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA): A popular anti-aliasing technique that blends the current frame with past frames using motion vectors to smooth out artifacts
• Morph Targets: Animate vertex positions on meshes between predefined states. Great for things like character customization!
• Robust Constrast Adaptive Sharpening (RCAS): Intelligently sharpens renders, which pairs nicely with TAA
• WebGPU Support: Bevy can now render on the web faster and with more features using the modern WebGPU web API
• Improved Shader Imports: Bevy shaders now support granular imports and other new features
• Parallax Mapping: Materials now support an optional depth map, giving flat surfaces a feel of depth through parallaxing the material’s textures
• Schedule-First ECS APIs: A simpler and more ergonomic ECS system scheduling API
• Immediate Mode Gizmo Rendering: Easily and efficiently render 2D and 3D shapes for debugging and editor scenarios
• ECS Audio APIs: A more intuitive and idiomatic way to play back audio
• UI Borders: UI nodes can now have configurable borders!
• Grid UI Layout: Bevy UI now supports CSS-style grid layout
• UI Performance Improvements: The UI batching algorithm was changed, yielding significant performance wins