As usual, every three months — a new Thunder Engine release. Today I’m happy to share the latest version of the engine with you!
What’s new?
This release is packed with features. Here are the key changes:
Animation
- Application background state check
- State Blending — an important step toward smooth transitions
- Animator refactoring and bone-related bug fixes
Editor
- Custom Property Editors
- Context menu in the property editor
- Highlighting and deleting connections in graphs
- Sprite transformation tool
- Numerous fixes, including crashes when deleting nodes and renaming assets
Rendering & Text
- Bitmap font support (an alternative to SDF for small text)
- Fixed multiple text rendering issues
Core & Engine
- Crash backtracer — the call stack is now written to the log!
- Standard system cursors
Where to download?
The release is already available:
- Via the link: https://github.com/thunder-engine/thunder/releases/tag/2026.2
- Or through Thunder Hub — our new launcher application
Thank you for sticking with the project! Installation, testing, and feedback greatly help development.