Our demo examples/fonts/test_local_characters was improved a lot. It’s now both simpler and more powerful, shows the advised approaches: just set up TCastleFont to load fonts from TTF/OTF and assign it to (like TCastleLabel.CustomFont) or . See manual about text and fonts. With big thanks to Freedomax, our now works with Windows IME much better. The …

I’m proud to announce I’ll be part of International Pascal Congress, an event taking place July 3-7 (this year, 2023) in the Salamanca city (Spain). You can register now (see the registration page for prices)! Note that 1st early registration phase is only up to the 10th April, and registering early costs less. The program …

As a fan of Tremulous, I’m happy to announce big improvements to our MD3 file format support. Note that we still recommend glTF as the best 3D model format in general. MD3 is an older model format, with some known limitations (precalculated frames per second, no PBR, no runtime manipulation of rig…) but it is …

New example split_long_md3_animation_into_logical_pieces shows how to play subanimations in MD3 files. In a broader context, it shows how to use to manually “drive” the animation, picking the animation frames you want. The MD3 format comes from Quake 3 and it’s used by various games sharing that game engine. In particular I’m a big fan of …

Following the Tiled improvements and optimizations done in January, it was most natural to introduce a dedicated class that represents a Tiled map in a viewport. It descends from and thus can be moved, rotated, scaled (in 2D or 3D), just like anything else in the viewport. The usage demo, along with many sample maps, …

A production-quality release of JMonkeyEngine with the following noteworthy changes relative to
v3.5.2-stable:

Potential breaking changes:

Use OpenGL 3.2 as default by @riccardobl in #1752
BlendAction: resolve slow-motion side effect caused by stret…