libGDX Jam December 2022 With our 23rd collaboration, the libGDX Jam continues the time-honoured tradition of making awesome games using the best framework out there. We encourage camaraderie, teamwork, and good sportsmanship with a side of well-intentioned buffoonery. The general jam rules can as always be found here. To participate take a look at the official itch.io page of the jam. The jam trailer can be found on YouTube. Continue Reading →
Castle Game Engine: Fixes to 3rd-person navigation, UI outline and groups, LSP range check error Fixes to third person navigation component and example: Fixed the design-time behavior — the existence of should not affect behavior of camera at design-time. secured in case it is zero, previously it got us into weird transformation bug. behavior on fixed Accidental playing of walking animation (even if you don’t hold “W” key) fixed. Fixes … Continue reading ➤ Continue Reading →
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 7 Godot 4.0 has been in beta for over two months, and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. We’ve had beta snapshots every other week, and now we’ve decided to accelerate the cadence to release a … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly-ish recap — 30 November 2022 GIMP 2.99.14 This is an almost too good of a release this close to v3.0: floating selections out, outlined text in, Align tool rewrite, pasting multiple layers as a single one, and more. I published a review of the most important changes t… Continue Reading →
Release Management: 4.0 and beyond TL;DR: We are getting closer than ever to releasing Godot 4.0. After years of development and countless hours spent by our contributors, we believe it’s finally ready for production use. But no matter the amount of time dedicated to testing and profili… Continue Reading →
Castle Game Engine: Dark Mode design :) I can’t count anymore how many times I’ve been asked “when is the Dark Mode coming to CGE editor” 🙂 One answer is: It is already possible. We use LCL and our editor just follows your OS (Windows, GTK, …) theme. If you switch your system theme to something dark, then all your applications (including … Continue reading ➤ Continue Reading →
Castle Game Engine: Documentation enhancements: using children components, API and code conventions about memory management, nils, BeforeDestruction and more We have a number of enhancements to our 2 large documentation pages (targeting mostly advanced engine users / developers): Custom Components documentation was extended with description how do we advise to create children components in your custom components. This is useful when you want to create a new component, register it in CGE editor, and … Continue reading ➤ Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Upscayl vs Upscaler There’s a lot of conversation about using AI and neural networks in art lately. One direction this technology is evolving in is producing better looking upscaled images. The software has to pretty much paint in the details that weren’t ther… Continue Reading →
Castle Game Engine: Texture coordinate transformation (KHR_texture_transform) in glTF support Extending our glTF support, we now handle texture coordinate transformation following the KHR_texture_transform extension. The glTFs using it can be generated e.g. by Blender if you transform UV Map using the Mapping node (see the screenshot at thi… Continue Reading →
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 6 Godot 4.0 has been in beta for a little over two months, and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. We’ve had beta snapshots every other week, and now we’ve decided to accelerate the cadence to r… Continue Reading →
