
Panda3D | Open Source Framework for 3D Rendering & Games
Feb 25, 2025 · Panda3D is an open-source, cross-platform, completely free-to-use engine for realtime 3D games, visualizations, simulations, experiments — you name it! Its rich feature set …
Introduction to Panda3D — Panda3D Manual
To serve Disney’s needs, Panda3D must be a fully-featured engine, capable of all the performance and quality one expects in any ‘A-grade’ commercial title. The most supported …
Programming with Panda3D — Panda3D Manual
The Programming with Panda section of the manual attempts to enumerate all the various functionality that Panda3D provides. This manual does not attempt to be complete in the …
The Scene Graph — Panda3D Manual
But for the purposes of rendering 3D models, we usually talk about the standard 3D scene graph, at the root of which is a node called render. Panda3D also creates a scene graph for rendering …
Sample Programs in the Distribution — Panda3D Manual
To run a sample program, you need to install the Panda3D SDK. If you’re a Windows user, you’ll find the sample programs in your start menu. If you’re a Linux user, you’ll find the sample …
3D Audio — Panda3D Manual
3D Audio A wrapper Audio3DManager class has been implemented to help do positional audio. Audio3DManager takes as input an AudioManager and a listener for the sound. A listener is …
Shaders — Panda3D Manual
Once upon a time, each 3D video card had a fixed list of things that it could do. At first, the feature lists were short: the cards could draw polygons, do some basic texturing, a little alpha …
Traversing 3D environments - General Discussion - Panda3D
May 15, 2007 · Ive been using Python for a year now but am just getting into 3D programming and I have a few questions Lets say I have a hilly terrain that I want a human to be able to …
Lighting — Panda3D Manual
In a 3D engine like Panda3D, lights don’t illuminate things automatically. Instead, you must tell the chair and the sofa to be illuminated by the lamp. So to reiterate, lighting a scene in Panda3D …
Controlling the Camera — Panda3D Manual
Run the Program The camera should no longer be underground; and furthermore, it should now be rotating about the clearing: