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 →
Castle Game Engine: DSDrive – a new racing game made in Castle Game Engine We’re proud to present DSDrive, a simple racing game developed by DidiSoft entirely with Castle Game Engine and Lazarus (and Blender and LazPaint). It is a car race game against 10 opponents and/or time on three different racetracks. In the box you can change the tires, refuel, adjust the brakes and adjust the wing angle. … Continue reading ➤ Continue Reading →
Release Management Post Godot 4.0 We outline our plan for future Godot releases and Godot 4.1 specifically, which you can expect at the end of June, after three months of feature merging and one month of bug fixing. Continue Reading →
Godot 4.1 Rendering Priorities For 4.1 the rendering team will be focusing on performance, stability, and usability. Continue Reading →
Castle Game Engine: Render 3D and 2D games inside Delphi VCL and FMX forms using TCastleControl We announced this feature already some time ago and you can watch my presentation from Embarcadero CodeRage 2022 about it. A lot of polishing work happened since then, so it’s time to announce it officially: Castle Game Engine now offers a TCastleControl component that you can install in Delphi IDE and drop on a VCL … Continue reading ➤ Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 16 April 2023 Week highlights: new versions of Curtail, Pitivi, and Zrythm, new features in GIMP, UX/UI updates in FreeCAD, updates of Krita and Blender add-ons. GIMP The Search Actions dialog now shows menu paths and is able to locate GEGL operations t… Continue Reading →
Castle Game Engine: Editor improvements: color picker, display statistics, simple grid and axis Choosing colors inside CGE editor is now using a modern, cross-platform, comfortable color picker dialog. To see it, simply click on “…” in the editor object inspector to adjust any color — of user interface (like ), or 3D stuff (like ), of background (like ). The new color picker dialog pops up, allowing you … Continue reading ➤ Continue Reading →
Direct3D 12: Adventures in Shaderland Godot is about to get a Direct3D 12 rendering driver. This is a discussion on the exotic approaches taken to face some of the challenges posed in the area of shaders. Continue Reading →