Dec 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 readily tailors …

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.

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, …

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 …

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, …

Walking through this tutorial will enable you to obtain some limited familiarity with the Panda3D API without having to learn the entire thing. The program that we are going to create will load up a small …

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 …

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.

Once your machine is clean of all previous versions of Panda3D, you should download the windows installer from the download page. Run the installer, and follow the prompts: