We have a new example examples/viewport_and_scenes/mesh_update that may be quite useful to many developers. It shows two approaches to update a mesh at runtime. This has a lot applications — e.g. you may want to animate / deform the mesh following some algorithm or allow for some user interactions or game events to change the …

We have implemented a simple approach to user interface batching to improve performance of UI rendering: You can easily activate it by Container.UserInterfaceBatching := true. See API docs. We also added a way to observe whether/how much do you gain. Look at class variable information. In particular use TDrawableImage.Statistics.ToString, or TDrawableImage.Statistics.DrawCalls, TDrawableImage.Statistics.ImageDraws. Display them in …

The gist of this post is simple: if you have a mac and iOS (iPhone, iPad) device, go ahead and deploy your application to iOS, using latest engine and following our documentation! This week we’ve tested building Castle Game Engine applications on iOS with latest macOS 14.4 (Sonoma), with latest Xcode 15.3, on Apple M2 …

I will give a talk about our Castle Game Engine at International Pascal Cafe, on April 6th (Saturday), in ~3 weeks from today. The 1-day event features talks from well-known people in FPC, pas2js and Lazarus ecosystem, including Michael Van Canneyt and Mattias Gaertner, so I’m really excited to join! You’re welcome to register (note …

Sneaking one more dev release in for testing before the team heads to GDC!