_Bevy-shaped mountains in a Bevy-based Witcher 3 terrain texturing tool built by

rmemr_

[Bevy][bevy] is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It

is [free and open source][bevy-git] forever!

Bevy 0.8 was a massive community effort. You can check out the [full release

blog post here][bevy-blog], but here are some highlights:

- [New Material System][bevy-materials]

- [Camera-driven Rendering][bevy-camera]

- [Built-in Shader Modularization][bevy-shader-mod]

- [Spot Lights][bevy-spotlights]

- [Visibility Inheritance][bevy-visibility]

- [Upgraded to wgpu 0.13][bevy-wgpu]

- [Automatic Mesh Tangent Generation][bevy-tangent]

- [Renderer Optimizations][bevy-render-opt]

- [Scene Bundle][bevy-scene]

- [Scripting / Modding Progress][bevy-scripting]

- [ECS Query Ergonomics and Usability][bevy-ecs-ergo]

- [ECS Internals Refactors][bevy-refactors]

- [Reflection Improvements][bevy-reflect]

- [Hierarchy Commands][bevy-hierarchy]

- [Bevy UI Now Uses Taffy][bevy-taffy]

_Discussions:

[/r/rust](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/wc0sqc/bevy_08/),

[Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32287828),

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/cart_cart/status/1553411157662187521)_

[bevy]: https://bevyengine.org

[bevy-git]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy

[bevy-blog]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8

[bevy-materials]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#new-material-system

[bevy-camera]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#camera-driven-rendering

[bevy-spotlights]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#spotlights

[bevy-visibility]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#visibility-inheritance

[bevy-shader-mod]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#built-in-shader-modularization

[bevy-wgpu]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#wgpu-0-13-new-wgsl-shader-syntax

[bevy-tangent]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#automatic-mesh-tangent-generation

[bevy-render-opt]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#render-phase-sorting-optimization

[bevy-scene]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#scene-bundle

[bevy-scripting]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#scripting-modding-progress-untyped-ecs-apis

[bevy-ecs-ergo]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#query-intoiter

[bevy-refactors]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#ecs-lifetimed-pointers

[bevy-reflect]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#bevy-reflection-improvements

[bevy-hierarchy]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#hierarchy-commands

[bevy-taffy]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-8/#taffy-migration-a-refreshed-ui-layout-library