Latest Blog Posts
Buffer Protocol Support
I’d like to talk for a moment about the new buffer protocol support in the latest development version of Panda3D. It’s not a particularly exciting feature, but it can be an important one, especially if you use Panda3D together with...
Triple Your Frame Rate?
Historically, Panda has always run single-core. And even though the Panda3D codebase has been written to provide true multithreaded, multi-processor support when it is compiled in, by default we’ve provided a version of Panda built with the so-called “simple threads”...
Panda3D and Cython
This is about how to speed up your Python Code, and has no direct impact on Panda3D’s performance. For most projects, the vast majority of the execution time is inside Panda3D’s C++ or in the GPU, so no matter what...
Pandai Library: A Quick Review of panda3d.ai
The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University in 2009 launched a graduate student project to add a collection of artificial intelligence behaviors like seek, flock, and evade along with 2D pathfinding to Panda3D. This blog post is a...
Porting to Java
This was an April Fool's Joke. The information in it is not meant to be taken seriously. Click the post title if you want to see it.
Panda SE Project
During the past few months, several students at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) have been working on improving the egging process as well as incrementally improving the shader system. Just take a look at their smiling faces! For...
ABI Backward Compatibility
Hey C++ developers of Panda3D, I’ve just checked in a fix to the codebase that should give minor releases a backward compatible ABI. This means that if you link something against the Panda3D 1.8.0 libraries, you’ll still be able to...
Pointer Textures
With the introduction of Panda3D 1.7.0, there is now a very powerful but also very dangerous feature that is now available to the public. This feature has been used internally at Walt Disney Imagineering for some time now, but it...
Hardware Geometry Instancing
Recently, I have been working on a little Infinite Terrain demo that explains how to take full advantage of Panda3D’s terrain capabilities. In the process I have been adding various features to Panda3D that would make it easier for me,...
Import System for C++ Modules
I’ve just checked in support for a shiny new ‘panda3d’ module that better organizes the C++ classes of Panda3D. This feature has been requested for a while now as many were annoyed with the long, unorganized and imports through pandac.PandaModules....