Moving an object with force in PlayCanvas
This tutorial explains how to use keyboard input to move an object around. But rather than telling the object how far it needs to move (like in this other tutorial), …
Controlling audio with scripts
This tutorial explains how to control the audio in your game using scripts. You can play, stop, pause and resume sound effects and songs in your game when certain events …
Adding sound to a game in PlayCanvas
[glossary_exclude]This tutorial explains how to add sound effects and background music to your game in PlayCanvas. You can add sounds that can be heard from anywhere in the game or …
Rigid Bodies and Collision in PlayCanvas
This tutorial explains how to add the Rigid Body and Collision components to objects in your game so that your objects can move around and interact in a realistic way and …
Rotating objects with keyboard input in PlayCanvas
In this tutorial you will learn how to rotate an object using code in PlayCanvas. This means that you can allow users to spin an object when they press a key on the …
Particle Systems in PlayCanvas
This video tutorial explains how to add particle systems to your PlayCanvas game. A particle system allows you to add a range of animated effects such as smoke, fog, bubbles, flames, and …
Moving objects with keyboard input in PlayCanvas
If you watched the previous tutorial you would have learned how to make an object move on its own using JavaScript code. In this tutorial, we will make an object …
Make a 3D object move with code in PlayCanvas
In this tutorial we will start writing our very lines of JavaScript code in the PlayCanvas code editor! To start with, we will make a 3D object (eg. a box …
An overview of scripts in PlayCanvas
This tutorial will not show how to write code in PlayCanvas just yet, but will give you an overview of how scripts work in PlayCanvas and the structure of a …
Skyboxes in PlayCanvas
In this tutorial you will be introduced to Skyboxes and CubeMaps in PlayCanvas. A skybox is a method of creating backgrounds to make the environment in a 3D game look …
Lighting in PlayCanvas
In this tutorial you will learn how to add and modify lighting in your game. You can use different types of lights and have multiple lights in any scenes to …
Entities and materials in PlayCanvas
In this tutorial you will learn more about entities and how to modify a Box entity to make a ground or floor for your game’s scenes. You will also learn how to …
Getting started with PlayCanvas
PlayCanvas is a 3D game development environment in the cloud. You can use PlayCanvas to make your own 3D games and code them in the JavaScript programming language using a …