User Manual

Here is an overview of some of the terms we use to describe the PlayCanvas Engine and Tools.

The pc.Application

An asset is a unit of data that is typically imported into PlayCanvas from a content creation application (such as Blender or 3D Studio Max). It can represent a 3D model, an animation, an audio sample [..]

An attribute is a property of a Component

Components describe the properties and functionality of an Entity

The DOM (Document Object Model) is a way of representing an HTML document. Web browsers make an interface available for querying and modifying the DOM that makes up the HTML page that is displayed in [..]

An Entity is the one of the building blocks of your application in the PlayCanvas Engine

The Framework is the upper layer of abstraction in the PlayCanvas Engine. It consists of high-level features such as the Entity-Component System and the interface with the PlayCanvas Editor. See the A [..]

A Gizmo is a control that can be dragged around with the mouse in order to edit the attributes of an Entity, it is usually used to edit the transform matrix. A Gizmo consists of three color-coded part [..]