Libre Arts: GSoC 2023 projects have been announced Google Summer of Code 2023 projects have just been announced, so I thought I’d do a quick overview of what’s coming. This year, some things are totally expected, but there are also some very nice surprises. Let’s get on with this. GIMP Las… Continue Reading →
Castle Game Engine: Big rendering refactor: fully modern OpenGL support (3.3 core profile), mobile OpenGLES more functional (3D textures, occlusion query, more OpenGLES 3 features), ancient OpenGL better (reliable fallback to even 1.1 rendering in VMs), modernized GLSL code We have made a few significant refactors of our low-level OpenGL(ES) code, to support better both modern GPUs, ancient GPUs and mobile GPUs. Everybody wins! 🙂 Modern GPUs We have now much better support of new OpenGL features. If we have shaders, we know we have shaders from “core”, and we initialize them with the … Continue reading ➤ Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 30 April 2023 Week highlights: new releases of Kdenlive, Ardour, Audacity, Brickworks, Dragonfly Reverb, new features in GIMP, Krita, FreeCAD, Mayo. GIMP GIMP is still getting small improvements despite the shift of the focus towards stabilizing for v3…. Continue Reading →
Rust GameDev: This Month in Rust GameDev #44 – March 2023 Welcome to the 44th issue of the Rust GameDev Workgroup’s monthly newsletter. Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. These goals are well-aligned with game development. We hope to build an inviting ecosystem… Continue Reading →
Castle Game Engine: Visual Studio Code and LSP server improvements A big personal news from me is that I switched from using Emacs for almost-everything-I-do-on-computer to VS Code about a month ago. There have been a few reasons (yes, including this). I was exploring VS Code already, finally decided to see what happens if I try to use it for everything and now I’m happy … Continue reading ➤ Continue Reading →
Release candidate: Godot 4.0.3 RC 1 More improvements come to the stable version of Godot 4 with the 4.0.3 patch release. Here’s the first release candidate to test the changes before they go live. Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Audacity 3.3.0 released The release notes for Audacity 3.3.0 say it’s “focused on under-the-hood changes”. It’s true, but there are some very useful and long-anticipated new features too. Number one feature, in my opinion, is the newly added musical ti… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 23 April 2023 Week highlights: new releases of BeeRef’s fork, Armory3D, and topologicpy, new features in GIMP and FreeCAD, Inkscape is looking for an experienced GTK4 developer. GIMP We shouldn’t be expecting lots of new features at this sta… Continue Reading →
Castle Game Engine: Simpler castle_base Lazarus package, no longer depends on Vampyre LPK Going forward, CGE doesn’t depend on Vampyre packages LPK. We of course still (proudly!) use Vampyre Imaging Library for most of our image loading/saving needs, we just refer to these units a bit differently. There’s nothing for you to do. You can uninstall VampyreImagingPackage.lpk and VampyreImagingPackageExt.lpk from Lazarus IDE if you had them only for … Continue reading ➤ Continue Reading →
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.1 dev 1 Here be dragons! First development snapshot for the upcoming Godot Engine 4.1 is available to early adopters and adventurous types. Continue Reading →
