Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 21 May 2023 Week highlights: Blender 3.6 beta is out, MLT gets more 10-bit video support, VGC Illustration gets UI update and new tools, DrMr sampler gets a new life in a fork. GIMP The GIMP team is meeting live this week somewhere in the EU, for the … Continue Reading →
Castle Game Engine: Shadow volumes: new WholeSceneManifold option, fixes and docs A new feature of our shadow volumes is that you can turn on to say that the whole scene must be a closed volume (2-manifold), not necessarily each shape. This makes especially sense if your model is, as far as geometry in a 3D authoring tool like Blender is concerned, a single mesh but with … Continue reading ➤ Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 14 May 2023 This is a very brief recap. Highlights: further steps towards non-destructive editing in GIMP, new features in Krita, new releases of OpenToonz and PlugData. GIMP Two patches by CmykStudent have been merged to the main development branch: … Continue Reading →
Release candidate: Godot 4.0.3 RC 2 Another round of cherry-picks for the upcoming Godot 4.0.3, fixing a few regressions reported against RC 1 and backporting more important fixes. Continue Reading →
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.1 dev 2 We’re well into the development phase for Godot 4.1, with a little less than a month left before we move to beta. So here’s a second dev snapshot to test recent changes! Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 7 May 2023 Week highlights: Google Summer of Code 2023 project announced, new releases of DreamWorks MoonRay, BlenderBIM, dav1d, new features in FreeCAD and Ardour. GSoC 2023 projects Google announced Summer of Code 2023 projects this week. Just to n… Continue Reading →
Castle Game Engine: Use Delphinus to install Castle Game Engine in Delphi, also simplified Delphi packages We have a new comfortable way to install Castle Game Engine packages and paths in the Delphi IDE: use Delphinus! Delphinus is an open-source package manager for Delphi. You can point it to an existing CGE installation using “Install from folder” from Delphinus GUI, and in turn it will Install CGE design-time package that provides … Continue reading ➤ Continue Reading →
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 →
