Dec 25, 2025 · Panda3D is an open-source, completely free-to-use engine for realtime 3D games, visualizations, simulations, experiments — you name it! Its rich feature set readily tailors to your …

Welcome to the Panda3D documentation! Panda3D is an open-source, free-to-use 3D engine made for the development of realtime 3D games, visualizations, simulations, experiments — you name it!

Panda3D includes command-line tools for processing and optimizing source assets, allowing you to automate and script your content production pipeline to fit your exact needs.

Panda3D was created for commercial game development and is still used for developing commercial games. Because of this, the engine needs to emphasize four areas: power, speed, completeness, …

Give you a general understanding of how to build games in Panda3D. In time, though, you will need to supplement the knowledge provided by this manual by studying the Reference Section.

Dec 25, 2025 · Development Builds Warning: Here be dragons! This page contains unstable and untested development builds of Panda3D. These builds may contain bugs and may crash …

Dec 25, 2025 · Download the Panda3D SDK This version of the Panda3D SDK was released on November 8, 2024 and is now obsolete. The most recent version was released on December 25, …

Game development with Panda3D usually consists of writing a Python or C++ program that controls the Panda3D library. Panda was created for commercial game development, and its primary users are …

Jan 10, 2012 · We’ve just released Panda3D 1.10.16, available now on the download page or via pip install --upgrade panda3d. This release focuses on stability and correctness, fixing several bugs that …

The Panda3D Distribution includes quite a few sample programs. The following is a list of what’s included, and which features of the engine each sample demonstrates.