Castle Game Engine: Join our 5th Open Meeting (“Spring 2023”) on Discord this Saturday (March 18)

You know the drill — our quarterly meeting on Discord, open to everyone, is this weekend! Join us and talk about Castle Game Engine 🙂 The meeting will happen at 15:00 (UTC timezone) this Saturday, March 18th, 2023. Simply join our Discord chat and go to the #open_meeting channel. You can just visit this link …

Castle Game Engine: Mobile (OpenGLES) rendering upgrades: occlusion query, anisotropic filtering, 3D textures, shadows; plus new occlusion query demo

Our OpenGL and OpenGLES code is now more streamlined, which allowed to “unlock” various rendering features on OpenGLES. This means we will use some features from OpenGL ES 3.0, if it is available: Occlusion Query, that is also showcased in a new demo examples/viewport_and_scenes/occlusion_query. 3D textures (example data in demo-models, look in texturing_advanced subdirectory). Using …

Castle Game Engine: We now use dedicated GPU automatically for all new projects

Many laptops come now with 2 GPUs: a slower one that consumes less battery and a “dedicated” GPU consuming more battery but capable of much better speeds, esp. when used with non-trivial 3D data. The CGE editor and your applications automatically use the “dedicated” GPU now. More information about this feature, the documentation how to …