Cargo Features
Bevy exposes many features to customize the engine. Enabling them add functionalities but often come at the cost of longer compilation times and extra dependencies.
Default Features
The default feature set enables most of the expected features of a game engine, like rendering in both 2D and 3D, asset loading, audio and UI. To help reduce compilation time, consider disabling default features and enabling only those you need.
| feature name | description |
|---|---|
| android-game-activity | Android GameActivity support. Default, choose between this and android-native-activity. |
| android_shared_stdcxx | Enable using a shared stdlib for cxx on Android |
| animation | Enable animation support, and glTF animation loading |
| async_executor | Uses async-executor as a task execution backend. |
| bevy_animation | Provides animation functionality |
| bevy_anti_alias | Provides various anti aliasing solutions |
| bevy_asset | Provides asset functionality |
| bevy_audio | Provides audio functionality |
| bevy_camera | Provides camera and visibility types, as well as culling primitives. |
| bevy_color | Provides shared color types and operations |
| bevy_core_pipeline | Provides cameras and other basic render pipeline features |
| bevy_core_widgets | Headless widget collection for Bevy UI. |
| bevy_gilrs | Adds gamepad support |
| bevy_gizmos | Adds support for rendering gizmos |
| bevy_gltf | glTF support |
| bevy_image | Load and access image data. Usually added by an image format |
| bevy_input_focus | Enable input focus subsystem |
| bevy_light | Provides light types such as point lights, directional lights, spotlights. |
| bevy_log | Enable integration with tracing and log |
| bevy_mesh | Provides a mesh format and some primitive meshing routines. |
| bevy_mesh_picking_backend | Provides an implementation for picking meshes |
| bevy_pbr | Adds PBR rendering |
| bevy_picking | Provides picking functionality |
| bevy_post_process | Provides post process effects such as depth of field, bloom, chromatic aberration. |
| bevy_render | Provides rendering functionality |
| bevy_scene | Provides scene functionality |
| bevy_shader | Provides shaders usable through asset handles. |
| bevy_sprite | Provides sprite functionality |
| bevy_sprite_picking_backend | Provides an implementation for picking sprites |
| bevy_sprite_render | Provides sprite rendering functionality |
| bevy_state | Enable built in global state machines |
| bevy_text | Provides text functionality |
| bevy_ui | A custom ECS-driven UI framework |
| bevy_ui_picking_backend | Provides an implementation for picking UI |
| bevy_ui_render | Provides rendering functionality for bevy_ui |
| bevy_window | Windowing layer |
| bevy_winit | winit window and input backend |
| custom_cursor | Enable winit custom cursor support |
| debug | Enable collecting debug information about systems and components to help with diagnostics |
| default_font | Include a default font, containing only ASCII characters, at the cost of a 20kB binary size increase |
| hdr | HDR image format support |
| ktx2 | KTX2 compressed texture support |
| multi_threaded | Enables multithreaded parallelism in the engine. Disabling it forces all engine tasks to run on a single thread. |
| png | PNG image format support |
| reflect_auto_register | Enable automatic reflect registration |
| smaa_luts | Include SMAA Look Up Tables KTX2 Files |
| std | Allows access to the std crate. |
| sysinfo_plugin | Enables system information diagnostic plugin |
| tonemapping_luts | Include tonemapping Look Up Tables KTX2 files. If everything is pink, you need to enable this feature or change the Tonemapping method for your Camera2d or Camera3d. |
| vorbis | OGG/VORBIS audio format support |
| wayland | Wayland display server support |
| webgl2 | Enable some limitations to be able to use WebGL2. Please refer to the WebGL2 and WebGPU section of the examples README for more information on how to run Wasm builds with WebGPU. |
| x11 | X11 display server support |
| zstd_rust | For KTX2 Zstandard decompression using pure rust ruzstd. This is the safe default. For maximum performance, use "zstd_c". |
Optional Features
| feature name | description |
|---|---|
| accesskit_unix | Enable AccessKit on Unix backends (currently only works with experimental screen readers and forks.) |
| android-native-activity | Android NativeActivity support. Legacy, should be avoided for most new Android games. |
| asset_processor | Enables the built-in asset processor for processed assets. |
| async-io | Use async-io's implementation of block_on instead of futures-lite's implementation. This is preferred if your application uses async-io. |
| basis-universal | Basis Universal compressed texture support |
| bevy_ci_testing | Enable systems that allow for automated testing on CI |
| bevy_debug_stepping | Enable stepping-based debugging of Bevy systems |
| bevy_dev_tools | Provides a collection of developer tools |
| bevy_remote | Enable the Bevy Remote Protocol |
| bevy_solari | Provides raytraced lighting (experimental) |
| bevy_ui_debug | Provides a debug overlay for bevy UI |
| bluenoise_texture | Include spatio-temporal blue noise KTX2 file used by generated environment maps, Solari and atmosphere |
| bmp | BMP image format support |
| compressed_image_saver | Enables compressed KTX2 UASTC texture output on the asset processor |
| critical-section | critical-section provides the building blocks for synchronization primitives on all platforms, including no_std. |
| dds | DDS compressed texture support |
| debug_glam_assert | Enable assertions in debug builds to check the validity of parameters passed to glam |
| default_no_std | Recommended defaults for no_std applications |
| detailed_trace | Enable detailed trace event logging. These trace events are expensive even when off, thus they require compile time opt-in |
| dlss | NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling |
| dynamic_linking | Force dynamic linking, which improves iterative compile times |
| embedded_watcher | Enables watching in memory asset providers for Bevy Asset hot-reloading |
| experimental_bevy_feathers | Feathers widget collection. |
| experimental_pbr_pcss | Enable support for PCSS, at the risk of blowing past the global, per-shader sampler limit on older/lower-end GPUs |
| exr | EXR image format support |
| ff | Farbfeld image format support |
| file_watcher | Enables watching the filesystem for Bevy Asset hot-reloading |
| flac | FLAC audio format support |
| force_disable_dlss | Forcibly disable DLSS so that cargo build --all-features works without the DLSS SDK being installed. Not meant for users. |
| ghost_nodes | Experimental support for nodes that are ignored for UI layouting |
| gif | GIF image format support |
| glam_assert | Enable assertions to check the validity of parameters passed to glam |
| hotpatching | Enable hotpatching of Bevy systems |
| http | Enables downloading assets from HTTP sources. Warning: there are security implications. Read the docs on WebAssetPlugin. |
| https | Enables downloading assets from HTTPS sources. Warning: there are security implications. Read the docs on WebAssetPlugin. |
| ico | ICO image format support |
| jpeg | JPEG image format support |
| libm | Uses the libm maths library instead of the one provided in std and core. |
| meshlet | Enables the meshlet renderer for dense high-poly scenes (experimental) |
| meshlet_processor | Enables processing meshes into meshlet meshes for bevy_pbr |
| mp3 | MP3 audio format support |
| pbr_anisotropy_texture | Enable support for anisotropy texture in the StandardMaterial, at the risk of blowing past the global, per-shader texture limit on older/lower-end GPUs |
| pbr_clustered_decals | Enable support for Clustered Decals |
| pbr_light_textures | Enable support for Light Textures |
| pbr_multi_layer_material_textures | Enable support for multi-layer material textures in the StandardMaterial, at the risk of blowing past the global, per-shader texture limit on older/lower-end GPUs |
| pbr_specular_textures | Enable support for specular textures in the StandardMaterial, at the risk of blowing past the global, per-shader texture limit on older/lower-end GPUs |
| pbr_transmission_textures | Enable support for transmission-related textures in the StandardMaterial, at the risk of blowing past the global, per-shader texture limit on older/lower-end GPUs |
| pnm | PNM image format support, includes pam, pbm, pgm and ppm |
| qoi | QOI image format support |
| raw_vulkan_init | Forces the wgpu instance to be initialized using the raw Vulkan HAL, enabling additional configuration |
| reflect_auto_register_static | Enable automatic reflect registration without inventory. See reflect::load_type_registrations for more info. |
| reflect_documentation | Enable documentation reflection |
| reflect_functions | Enable function reflection |
| serialize | Enable serialization support through serde |
| shader_format_glsl | Enable support for shaders in GLSL |
| shader_format_spirv | Enable support for shaders in SPIR-V |
| shader_format_wesl | Enable support for shaders in WESL |
| spirv_shader_passthrough | Enable passthrough loading for SPIR-V shaders (Only supported on Vulkan, shader capabilities and extensions must agree with the platform implementation) |
| statically-linked-dxc | Statically linked DXC shader compiler for DirectX 12 |
| symphonia-aac | AAC audio format support (through symphonia) |
| symphonia-all | AAC, FLAC, MP3, MP4, OGG/VORBIS, and WAV audio formats support (through symphonia) |
| symphonia-flac | FLAC audio format support (through symphonia) |
| symphonia-isomp4 | MP4 audio format support (through symphonia) |
| symphonia-vorbis | OGG/VORBIS audio format support (through symphonia) |
| symphonia-wav | WAV audio format support (through symphonia) |
| tga | TGA image format support |
| tiff | TIFF image format support |
| trace | Tracing support |
| trace_chrome | Tracing support, saving a file in Chrome Tracing format |
| trace_tracy | Tracing support, exposing a port for Tracy |
| trace_tracy_memory | Tracing support, with memory profiling, exposing a port for Tracy |
| track_location | Enables source location tracking for change detection and spawning/despawning, which can assist with debugging |
| wav | WAV audio format support |
| web | Enables use of browser APIs. Note this is currently only applicable on wasm32 architectures. |
| web_asset_cache | Enable caching downloaded assets on the filesystem. NOTE: this cache currently never invalidates entries! |
| webgpu | Enable support for WebGPU in Wasm. When enabled, this feature will override the webgl2 feature and you won't be able to run Wasm builds with WebGL2, only with WebGPU. |
| webp | WebP image format support |
| zlib | For KTX2 supercompression |
| zstd_c | For KTX2 Zstandard decompression using zstd. This is a faster backend, but uses unsafe C bindings. For the safe option, stick to the default backend with "zstd_rust". |