This weekend news post will cover a few things 🙂 I will give a talk about X3D, X3D 4, PBR (Physically-based Rendering), and how it connects with glTF 2.0 and Castle Game Engine this Tuesday, 29th March. Head on to the Web3D site to register, the talk is free and open to join for everyone. …

We’re continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 – this time with 4.0 alpha 5. See past alpha releases for details (alpha 1, 2, 3, 4).
Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or…

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 (with a second beta) and 4.0 (now at alpha 4!), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 branch for use in production.
Last month’s 3.4.3 release was found to have a few regression…

This screenshot will not win the #screenshotsaturday hashtag, but it took a lot of effort to achieve 🙂 Thanks to Andrzej Kilijański we have a big upgrade to our automatic tests application, available as always in tests/ subdirectory of CGE. Instead of using FpcUnit, the application can now use our own testing framework CastleTester that …

Godot 3.4.3 was released less than 3 weeks ago, but a few significant regressions were found in that release, so we’re fast-tracking the release of Godot 3.4.4 to solve those.
This Release Candidate adds a handful of fixes, including several regression…

It’s already been 2 months since 3.5 beta 1! Between biweekly 4.0 alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch (3.4.3, 3.4.4 RC 1), the release team – i.e. me – is spread thin… but these two months gave time for a lot of improvements i…

Thanks to Matthias (Free Pascal meets SDL) we now support “mirrored repeat” mode for textures, for both glTF and X3D models. We also support X3D TTexturePropertiesNode.BoundaryModeS/T/R properties, which allow to request a wrapping mode — clamp, repeat, or mirrored repeat. (see TBoundaryMode) The way you would request it in Pascal is by creating and adjusting …

Debian is a popular Linux distribution, also serving as a base for other Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu. You can now easily create a Debian package, .deb file, from any game! From Castle Game Engine Editor use menu option Run -> Package Format -> Debian Package (DEB) and then Run -> Package. Or use command-line build …