Hey everyone, Eileen here — and I’m excited to introduce you to PandaEditor!
PandaEditor is a powerful, open-source 3D development framework built on the Panda3D engine, designed to accelerate your games, simulations, or interactive visualizations projects. With intuitive scene editing tools and full support for C++ scripting, it’s built to help you iterate faster and bring your creative vision to life.
GitHub Repository:
PandaEditor
Key Features (so far):
Automated build system
Project-based architecture
Separate game and editor viewports- Dear ImGUI integration
Native C++ scripting support
Scene editor tools (coming soon!)
Planned Features: a new graphics pipeline, skeletal animation system, terrain rendering, and a full suite of art pipeline tools.
How this adventure started?
The journey started as part of my indie game project — I wanted to avoid that same look and feel common in games developed with many mainstream engines. So instead of building on Unity or Unreal, I chose Panda3D — and spent 6 months reworking and modernizing a previous Panda3D project (with help from the original author) and fully porting it from Python to C++.
PandaEditor is the result — and it’s free for anyone to use. Try it out, explore the tools, and feel free to contribute or report issues on GitHub!
Updates and Dev-logs
- (2025-06-04) There is not much exciting stuff for now, just the bare minimums — making sure PandaEditor builds and runs on end user computers smoothly is a top priority. After this, workflow enhancement features, documentation and better demos are on the way.
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