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Powerful web graphics runtime built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF

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Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 454
Avg merge: 4h 32m
Merged PRs (30d): 222

Dominant language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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454 open issues indexed

Consider texture arrays for directional shadow cascades instead of a 2x2 atlas Open

area: graphics

playcanvas/engine#9442 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Decide where StandardMaterial ambientSH lives once light probes exist (last value outside the material uniform buffer) Open

area: graphics enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

playcanvas/engine#9407 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
feat(graphics): adopt WGSL buffer_view once every WebGPU browser ships it Open

area: graphics

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

playcanvas/engine#9389 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
feat(graphics): adopt WGSL swizzle_assignment once every WebGPU browser ships it Open

area: graphics

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

playcanvas/engine#9388 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Evaluate minidraco as an alternative to the WASM Draco decoder Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

playcanvas/engine#9373 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
glTF skins bound per Mesh and deduplicated by joint names break RecursiveSkeletons and shared-skin models Open

area: graphics V3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

playcanvas/engine#9367 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Disable shape scaling by default Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

playcanvas/engine#9335 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
V3: remove six-cubemap prefiltered IBL input (prefilteredCubemaps / skyboxPrefilteredN) Open

area: graphics enhancement V3

playcanvas/engine#9325 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Consider optional area-light LUT data export when UMD bundle size is less important Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

playcanvas/engine#9324 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
ThirdPersonController: support drag input, press-triggered jump and pause/resume Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

playcanvas/engine#9314 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Font rendering regression Open

area: ui

playcanvas/engine#9304 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Pool the WebGPU readback staging buffers Open

playcanvas/engine#9297 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Displacement mapping for StandardMaterial, composable with parallax Open

enhancement

playcanvas/engine#9246 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Tangent frame v axis convention differs between the tangent attribute and derivative paths Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

playcanvas/engine#9214 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Unified gsplat: component-scoped 'renderable' signal for streamed (LOD) splats Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

playcanvas/engine#9211 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Regression: Element material mask not applied on Firefox for Android (worked in previous engine version) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

playcanvas/engine#9209 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
JointComponent: no way to read the current value of a constrained degree of freedom Open

area: physics

playcanvas/engine#9178 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 15, 2026
TransformFeedback: buffer allocation and usage requirements are implicit Open

playcanvas/engine#9134 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 28, 2026
ShaderMaterial: support omni light and spot VSM/PCSS shadow casting Open

area: graphics

playcanvas/engine#9118 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Extension of geometries/batch Open

area: graphics

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

playcanvas/engine#9110 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Deprecate Texture#flipY (upload flag): inconsistent / no-op on WebGPU and ImageBitmap sources Open

area: graphics

playcanvas/engine#9107 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Complete deprecated API refactoring and remove deprecated.js Open

playcanvas/engine#9086 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Diagonal rendering artifacts on sprites and textures in Exynos 2500 device Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

playcanvas/engine#9051 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 8, 2026
Investigate support for WebGPU Immediates (push constants) Open

area: graphics enhancement

playcanvas/engine#8917 · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 17, 2026
WebGPU is broken on Pixel 10 (Tensor G5 / PowerVR) — temporary fallback to WebGL2 to be removed when fixed Open

area: graphics

playcanvas/engine#8874 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Add support for WebGPU texture component swizzle Open

area: graphics enhancement

playcanvas/engine#8859 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 8, 2026
feat(graphics): adopt WGSL sized_binding_array once Chrome ships it unflagged Open

area: graphics

playcanvas/engine#8792 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened May 27, 2026
feat(graphics): adopt WGSL uniform_buffer_standard_layout for tighter uniform-buffer packing Open

playcanvas/engine#8791 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened May 27, 2026
Improve trackpad pinch-zoom sensitivity in camera controls Open

enhancement

playcanvas/engine#8533 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 17, 2026
SSAO + Alpha to Coverage breaks skybox on Firefox Open

area: graphics

playcanvas/engine#8526 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 12, 2026
AssetRegistry.getByUrl() returns wrong asset type for same URL (texture vs cubemap) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

playcanvas/engine#8489 · Opened Feb 28, 2026
Add configurable mouse button mappings to camera-controls.mjs Open

area: input

playcanvas/engine#8440 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 4, 2026
Async Batching in WebWorker Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

playcanvas/engine#8432 · 9 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 3, 2026
Specular aliasing after using envAtlas Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

playcanvas/engine#8431 · 9 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2026
CameraFrame.dof doesn't play well with CameraFrame.fringing Open

playcanvas/engine#8428 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 30, 2026
Add a size/scatter parameter to CameraFrame.bloom Open

playcanvas/engine#8427 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 30, 2026
Improvements to CameraFrame.vignette Open

area: graphics enhancement

playcanvas/engine#8425 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 30, 2026
Transparent objects aren't visible behind dynamic refraction Open

area: graphics enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

playcanvas/engine#8418 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 29, 2026
ESM Scripts break projects with Classic Scripts. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

playcanvas/engine#8400 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 23, 2026
Wrong colors in Gaussian Splats when using linear workflow Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

playcanvas/engine#8387 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 18, 2026
WebGPU Intel Graphics error. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

playcanvas/engine#8376 · 13 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 13, 2026
ESM scripts, execution order issues with attributes. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

playcanvas/engine#8344 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 8, 2026
Controllers not appearing in WebXR session via streamed PCVR (Virtual Desktop) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

playcanvas/engine#8330 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2026
Add support for rendering to Texture2DArray Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

playcanvas/engine#8327 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 2, 2026
Energy Conservation Uses Simplified (1-F0) Instead of (1-F) Open

area: graphics

playcanvas/engine#8297 · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 21, 2025
Blinn-Phong Fallback is Not glTF Compliant Open

area: graphics

playcanvas/engine#8296 · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 21, 2025
Compute Shader example fails on Samsung Internet Open

area: graphics

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

playcanvas/engine#8240 · Opened Dec 10, 2025
stereoscopic skybox Open

area: graphics

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

playcanvas/engine#8233 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 7, 2025
Supports 4D Gaussian Splatting Open

area: graphics enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

playcanvas/engine#8158 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 21, 2025
WebXR error: The WebGL context was not marked as XR compatible. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

playcanvas/engine#8106 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 6, 2025

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