We’ve made some small updates to how bump mapping (normal maps) work and wrote a nice simple documentation how to use bump mapping in our engine. Advised reading: bump mapping (normal maps) in Castle Game Engine. The default bump mapping is now bmBasic, this is much more natural than previous bmSteepParallaxShadowing. Using the parallax bump …

After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5 is out and it comes fully packed with features and quality of life improvements!
While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 release, many contributors and users want a robust and mature 3.x branch…

How to assign normalmaps to materials in Blender, how to export them to glTF and then observe normalmaps in Castle Game Engine. Bonus: I also describe how to bake normalmaps in Blender. Another day, another video, I hope you like it 🙂

It’s been a while since our last stable release! And this is not the long anticipated 3.5, nor 4.0, but simply a Godot 3.4.5 maintenance release to fix a handful of issues in the current 3.4 stable branch.
But don’t worry – the feature release 3.5 is j…

Andrzej Kilijański is working on joints in our physics in Castle Game Engine. This is a short video from our today’s session, constructing a quick 3D demo scene for hinges 🙂 (Watch on youtube).

Recently I was making various improvements possible thanks to new viewport and camera handling. If you haven’t already, see our video about Viewports, cameras and navigation! Improvements: Few fixes to automatic projection calculation. Long story short: you can probably leave and at zero in your projects, 2D and 3D. They should be always automatically calculated …

Fog can be now added and configured using component. The component is also available in CGE editor, so you add and configure your fog without even writing any code. The usage is simple: You add a fog component anywhere to the design using “Add Non-Visual Component -> Fog (TCastleFog)” in editor. You set it as …

We just announced that we’ll enter feature freeze next week to focus on stabilizing the existing functionality in Godot 4.0 and prepare the first beta release. But we’re not there yet and we’ll keep having frequent alpha builds until we’re ready to sla…