Awesome Bevy

This is an awesome list maintained by https://taintedcoders.com.

Only resources that are up to date with at least 0.15 Bevy will be included.

Table of contents

• Resources
• Starters
• Open Source Projects
• Animation
• Assets
• Audio
• Code organization
• Editor and Workflow
• Graphics and Rendering
• Input
• Misc
• Networking
• Pathfinding
• Physics
• UI

Resources

• Tainted Coders
• Unofficial Bevy Cheatbook
• Simple Bevy Tutorial: Breaks the version rule above but still great content
• Roguelike Tutorial - In Rust: Not quite bevy but an awesome read, lots of crossover

Starters

• Tainted Coders - Bevy Starter
• TheBevyFlock - bevy_new_2d
• bevy_space
• bevy_quickstart
• bevy_game_template
• bevy_github_ci_template
• limitpush

Open Source Projects

Not all resources in this section will be up to date but are useful nonetheless

• Emergence
• Digial Extinction
• Riverbed
• Power
• SolarSim
• Taipo

Assets

• bevy_asset_loader: Bevy plugin helping with asset loading and organization
• bevy_rpack`: Create tilemaps in seconds!
• skein: Convert glTF extras to Bevy Components using reflection
• bevy_app_compute: An easy way to run wgpu compute shaders within a bevy app
• bevy_march: A ray marcher for bevy, which can function alongside the regular mesh-based rendering
• bevy_materialize: Load, store, and apply type-erased materials in Bevy
• bevy_common_assets: Collection of generic asset loaders for common file formats
• bevy_mod_mipmap_generator: A basic mipmap generator for Bevy

Audio

• bevy_fmod: Idiomatic integration of the FMOD audio engine into Bevy projects
• bevy_seedling: A sprouting integration of the Firewheel audio engine

Animation

• bevy_animation_graph: Animation graphs in Bevy
• bevy_lookup_curve: Editable lookup curve for Bevy
• bevy_magic_fx: Define mesh-based VFX in RON files and load them into bevy

Code Organization

• seldom_state: Component-based state machine plugin for Bevy. Useful for AI, player state, and other entities that occupy different states.
• bevy_cli: A prototype Bevy CLI tool intended to streamline common tasks when working on projects.
• bevy_behave: Behaviour trees for bevy, with on-demand entity spawning for task nodes
• bevy_flurx: Allows you to use coroutine in Bevy
• bevy_save: A framework for saving and loading application state in Bevy
• beet: Beet extends the capabilities of bevy with systems for developing and publishing applications

Editors and Workflow

• blenvy: Bevy Code & Blender addon for a simple workflow to add & edit Bevy components in Blender
• skein: Convert glTF extras to Bevy Components using reflection
• bevy_mod_scripting: Bevy Scripting Plugin
• bevy_mod_outline: a Bevy plugin for drawing outlines around meshes using the vertex extrusion and jump flood methods
• bevy_trenchbroom: Quake map editor, TrenchBroom integration, .map, and .bsp loading for Bevy
• bevy_mod_debugdump: Dump your schedules for visual inspection
• bevy-inspection.vscode: Bevy Inspection - VSCode Extension
• HillVacuum: A bevy-based 2D map editor

Graphics and Rendering

• bevy_hanabi: a GPU particle system plugin for the Bevy game engine
• bevy_third_person_camera: A third person camera crate written for Bevy
• bevy_vello: An integration to render with Vello in the Bevy game engine
• bevy_vulkan: Vulkan RTX rendering backend for the Bevy game engine written in Rust
• bevy_sprite3d: Use sprites in a 3d bevy scene
• bevy_vector_shapes: A library for rendering vector shapes using the Bevy game engine
• seldom_pixel: Bevy plugin for limited color palette pixel art games
• shadplay: Real-time wgsl visualisation tooling for educating oneself in the art of shader programming

Input

• leafwing-input-manager: A straightforward stateful input manager for the Bevy game engine. This library is being upstreamed into Bevy
• bevy_pancam: A bevy plugin for panning orthographic cameras
• bevy_enhanced_input: Dynamic and contextual input mappings for Bevy
• bevy_ui_text_input: Text input crate for Bevy UI using cosmic text

Networking

• lightyear: A library for writing server-authoritative multiplayer games with Bevy
• bevy_replicon: Server-authoritative networking crate for the Bevy game engine
• bevy_renet: A Bevy Plugin for the renet crate. A network crate for Server/Client with cryptographically secure authentication and encypted packets. Designed for fast paced competitive multiplayer games
• renet2: Renet2 is a network library for Server/Client games written in rust. It is focused on fast-paced games such as FPS, and competitive games
• bevy_rewind: Server-authoritative rollback networking for bevy
• bevy_oxr: A crate for adding openxr (and in the future webxr) support to Bevy
• bevy_streaming: Bevy Streaming for Cloud Gaming through WebRTC
• bevy_ggrs: Bevy plugin for the GGRS P2P rollback networking library
• bevy_quinnet: A Client/Server game networking plugin using QUIC, for the Bevy game engine

Misc

• big_space: Floating origin plugin for spaces larger than the universe
• bevy_mod_raycast: A little mesh raycasting plugin for Bevy
• bevy_play_card: A card crate for the Bevy game engine
• bevy_serialization_extras: Contains plugins/systems to make serialization/deserialization with bevy smoother
• bevy_shuffle_bag: A tiny crate providing a shuffle bag, which is a collection of items that can endlessly be picked in a random, nonrepeating order.
• noiz: A simple, configurable, blazingly fast noise library built for and with Bevy
• Meshem: Provides meshing algorithms for voxel grids, enabling you to create cohesive 3D mesh structures from a grid of cubic voxels
• bevy_framepace: Framepacing and framelimiting for Bevy
• moonshine_save: A save/load framework for Bevy game engine
• hexx: Hexagonal tools lib in rust
• bevy_ratatui_camera: A bevy plugin for rendering your bevy app to the terminal using ratatui

Physics

• avian: ECS-driven 2D and 3D physics engine for the Bevy game engine
• bevy_rapier: Official Rapier plugin for the Bevy game engine
• bevy_heavy: Mass properties for Bevy's geometric primitives.
• bevy_transform_interpolation: Transfom interpolation for fixed timesteps for the Bevy game engine
• avian_pickup: A plugin for implementing picking up dynamic rigid bodies in Avian physics for the Bevy engine

Pathfinding

• vleue_navigator: Pathfinding on NavMeshes for Bevy
• bevy_flowfield_tiles_plugin: Bevy plugin for Flowfield based pathfinding
• oxidized_navigation: A runtime Nav-Mesh generation plugin for Bevy Engine in Rust
• landmass: A Rust crate to provide a navigation system for video game characters to walk around levels

UI

• bevy_egui: An immediate mode UI library
• bevy_lunex: Blazingly fast path based retained layout engine for Bevy entities, built around vanilla Bevy ECS
• bevy_cosmic_edit: Multiline text editing for bevy apps
• bevy_cobweb_ui: Reactive UI framework for Bevy
• haalka: Ergonomic reactive Bevy UI library powered by FRP signals
• i-cant-believe-its-not-bsn: Early preview of Cart's vision of BSN
• bevy_plot: Plotting library for the Bevy game engine
• transform-gizmo: 3d transformation gizmo
• bevy_rich_text3d: Mesh based bevy text implementation
• bevy_healthbar_3d: Health bar for bevy implemented as a billboard shader
• bevy_ui_anchor: Microlibrary for adding anchoring to UI