# Teaser Fridays and Roadmap talks **URL:** \ **Category:** Roadmap\ **Created:** [September 2, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803 "2016-09-02T14:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![ValorZard](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/valorzard/32/39239_2.png) [@ValorZard](https://forum.defold.com/u/ValorZard)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/303 "2026-05-12T01:30:39Z")
ooooo it looks really cool! ---
**Author:** ![MasterMind](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/mastermind/32/31839_2.png) [@MasterMind](https://forum.defold.com/u/MasterMind)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/304 "2026-05-13T03:46:57Z")
Good job! ---
**Author:** ![Pawel](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/pawel/32/24623_2.png) [@Pawel](https://forum.defold.com/u/Pawel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/305 "2026-05-22T14:03:34Z")
Added blaster! 🔫 There are now also sound effects and animations for weapon on shooting, moving and for enemies on hit and death (will share video tomorrow at screnshot saturday) ![image](https://forum-defold-uploads.b-cdn.net/original/3X/e/9/e9a28723073091381d239760fe14254d69fa07fd.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Sam](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/sam/32/41902_2.png) [@Sam](https://forum.defold.com/u/Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/306 "2026-05-22T14:07:27Z")
Add Half-Life laser gun and where is the link to test that? ---
**Author:** ![selimanac](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/selimanac/32/6397_2.png) [@selimanac](https://forum.defold.com/u/selimanac)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/307 "2026-05-22T14:15:03Z")
> [@Pawel](#): > > weapon on shooting, moving and for enemies on hit and death (will share video tomorrow at screnshot saturday) I hope that gun doesn’t have clipping issues against walls and boxes. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Pawel](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/pawel/32/24623_2.png) [@Pawel](https://forum.defold.com/u/Pawel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/308 "2026-05-22T14:20:11Z")
I made a simple trick for this - moving weapon up when close to a wall 😉 EDIT: Ok, here’s a teaser 😃 ![image](https://forum-defold-uploads.b-cdn.net/original/3X/b/6/b6853f90921f1e6f3b81aced5e8c2f03b2a83a73.jpeg) But perhaps also drawing the gun separately to avoid clipping might be a good idea to showcase ---
**Author:** ![Asatte](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/asatte/32/39093_2.png) [@Asatte](https://forum.defold.com/u/Asatte)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 4:58am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/309 "2026-05-23T04:58:16Z")
I have used this to avoid clipping and rendering weapons always on top: ```lua --on init: self.predicates = create_predicates("tile", "gui", "particle", "model", "weapon", "debug_text") --on update local draw_options_weapon = state.cameras.camera_world.options draw_options_weapon.frustum = nil render.enable_state(graphics.STATE_DEPTH_TEST) render.enable_state(graphics.STATE_CULL_FACE) render.set_depth_mask(true) render.draw(predicates.weapon, draw_options_weapon) render.disable_state(graphics.STATE_CULL_FACE) render.disable_state(graphics.STATE_DEPTH_TEST) render.set_depth_mask(false) render.draw_debug3d(draw_options_weapon) ``` and was working well 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![selimanac](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/selimanac/32/6397_2.png) [@selimanac](https://forum.defold.com/u/selimanac)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/310 "2026-05-23T06:36:52Z")
> [@Pawel](#): > > But perhaps also drawing the gun separately to avoid clipping might be a good idea to showcase but this looks really cool 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pawel](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/pawel/32/24623_2.png) [@Pawel](https://forum.defold.com/u/Pawel)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/311 "2026-06-02T14:47:25Z")
It’s far from shipping yet, but we wanted to share with you an experiment @vlaaad is working on: Terminal inside the Defold Editor: It’s powered by GhosttyFX project by Vlad: [GitHub - vlaaad/ghosttyfx: JavaFX terminal that uses libghostty · GitHub](https://github.com/vlaaad/ghosttyfx) ---
**Author:** ![JuLongZhiLu](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/julongzhilu/32/42720_2.png) [@JuLongZhiLu](https://forum.defold.com/u/JuLongZhiLu)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/312 "2026-06-02T15:18:40Z")
That’s amazing ! ---
**Author:** ![Pawel](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/pawel/32/24623_2.png) [@Pawel](https://forum.defold.com/u/Pawel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/313 "2026-06-09T12:15:45Z")
Next teaser for the FPS template, now with more assets from the Prototype pack by Kay Lousberg, reloading animations and ammo GUI, and some billboarded particlefx for shooting and hits, or knocback on hit. It can also be controlled via gamepad 🎮 ---
**Author:** ![Pawel](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/pawel/32/24623_2.png) [@Pawel](https://forum.defold.com/u/Pawel)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2026, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/314 "2026-06-14T19:48:02Z")
Lights will be there in 1.13.1 and are now in 1.13.1 alpha: ![image](https://forum-defold-uploads.b-cdn.net/original/3X/3/1/3120211809b993a500e98da175b5b846857a5e47.png) Time to make some examples for it! ---
**Author:** ![LesniakM](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/lesniakm/32/35943_2.png) [@LesniakM](https://forum.defold.com/u/LesniakM)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/315 "2026-06-15T16:02:43Z")
Can’t wait! Could you share a few more details about them? 1. How many lights can be present in the scene? Will be there hard cap or just the performance is the limit? 2. Can the lights move or do they need to remain stationary? 3. Will these lights be included in the FPS example? ---
**Author:** ![Pawel](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/pawel/32/24623_2.png) [@Pawel](https://forum.defold.com/u/Pawel)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/316 "2026-06-15T16:19:25Z")
1. I don’t know, maybe @jhonny.goransson - are there any limits? 2. Yes, lights are attached to game objects like any other components, so you can animate game object’s position: 3. Yes, that’s the plan, but first to the existing 3D playground 😉 We’ll add basic versions of model materials (forward rendering, basic diffuse direct lighting) supporting light data from the components, so you can use multiple lights of different types, and preview will be visible in Editor and in runtime you can manipulate position of the lights as mentioned above: ![image](https://forum-defold-uploads.b-cdn.net/original/3X/f/d/fd4f1a443d3a8aac34290d601f890163e2bbee5b.jpeg) But note this is only direct lighting, so this not adds any shadow mapping implementation and no indirect lighting (no global illumination). These can be still achieved with custom pipeline and shaders and we’ll be preparing examples to do so (especially the FPS example is planned to use cascaded shadow maps for directional lights). ---
**Author:** ![gianmichele](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/gianmichele/32/24028_2.png) [@gianmichele](https://forum.defold.com/u/gianmichele)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/317 "2026-06-15T17:26:17Z")
Would really love to see a 2d example as well ---
**Author:** ![Mathias](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/mathias/32/44015_2.png) [@Mathias](https://forum.defold.com/u/Mathias)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/318 "2026-06-15T21:37:24Z")
Yeah a 2D example with normal maps on sprites and tilemaps would be awesome ---
**Author:** ![illo](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/illo/32/38131_2.png) [@illo](https://forum.defold.com/u/illo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/320 "2026-06-16T03:54:36Z")
> [@Mathias](#): > > Yeah a 2D example with normal maps on sprites and tilemaps would be awesome This would be so useful to me right now! ---
**Author:** ![jhonny.goransson](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/jhonny.goransson/32/3864_2.png) [@jhonny.goransson](https://forum.defold.com/u/jhonny.goransson)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/321 "2026-06-16T18:27:36Z")
> [@LesniakM](#): > > 1. How many lights can be present in the scene? Will be there hard cap or just the performance is the limit? Currenty, we use a **uniform buffer** **object** to store the light data in. The size of a uniform buffer is dependant on your graphics card and the graphics API being used (opengl, vulkan, etc) so it’s a bit hard to say, but typically they are 65k-256k large. The current representation of a light aligns to 64 bytes, which means that you can fit roughly 1k lights in the buffer. If the light buffer capacity is an issue we can add support for SSBOs (storage buffer objects) which are more or less limitless (guaranteed minimum 128mb on Vulkan), but until someone has a real use case we will stick to UBOs because of portability. Now, the current shader(s) we will ship are intentionally barebones - there is no “many-light” implementations available yet that use this new data model, but this is something we will add as templates a bit later. ---
**Author:** ![LesniakM](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/lesniakm/32/35943_2.png) [@LesniakM](https://forum.defold.com/u/LesniakM)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/322 "2026-06-16T19:06:37Z")
Cool, thanks for the detailed answer. I don’t really see a practical use case for more than 20-30 lights in my projects, so I mainly wanted to make sure there isn’t some relatively low limit due to performance or implementation constraints (similar to collision groups). By the way, even if there would be hard limit for low amount lights, I also don’t perceive it as wrong if its benefits performance 😉 From what you described, it sounds like I can safely not worry about it as long as I keep the number of lights reasonable, let’s say, well below 100. ---
**Author:** ![jhonny.goransson](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/jhonny.goransson/32/3864_2.png) [@jhonny.goransson](https://forum.defold.com/u/jhonny.goransson)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/323 "2026-06-16T19:30:31Z")
Yes, but you might still need something like deferred rendering for 30 lights. It’s available in latest alpha so you can always try it out right now as well. It’s not going to change until next release [Previous page](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803.md?page=15) [Next page](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803.md?page=17)