New component allows to define a nice background for 3D games. Just add it to the design by Add Non-Visual Component -> Background (you can add it to any component, but it’s most natural to do it on viewport) and then set to it. You can provide up to 6 textures that define 6 sides …

Lately I’ve done a number of rearrangements in CGE units, to make the engine code cleaner (easier to understand, both for new people and seasoned devs): Units map documentation is now up-to-date and more straightforward. Unit dependencies outlined in units map are (again) automatically checked by check_units_dependencies internal tool (using ppudump from FPC underneath). A …

I’ve added an example project examples/user_interface/custom_cursor showing how you can implement a custom cursor in your applications. It’s very flexible — the custom cursor is just a UI element, synchronized with mouse position, and it can contain an image, a viewport (with animated scene) or anything else you want. You even design the custom cursor …

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 (with a first beta) and 4.0 (and finally alpha 1!), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 branch for use in production.
A number of such fixes have been queued since the 3.4.2 release, so we’re getting ready…

We have extended our documentation how to put engine on Lazarus (and soon Delphi too) form. It now discusses also where to initialize CGE in this approach, how to use states and UI, and makes it clear that mixing TCastleControl and TCastleWindow in…

Despite the pace of development for Panda3D having been slowed through the year 2021, a lot of great progress has been made. Countless bug fixes and minor improvements have have culminated in the release of three new Panda3D versions, though…

I advise every CGE developer to run these 2 new examples today! 🙂 examples/component_gallery is a 12-page demo of possibilities of user interface components in CGE. Run the demo, and browse the pages to see what is possible. Then explore the demo in the editor (open designs data/page_xxx.castle-user-interface) to see how you can do this. …