Castle Game Engine: Camera and navigation rework almost finished. TODO: This news announcement is too long, we have too much new stuff to announce

I’m nearly done with the big amount of changes on new-cameras branch. Below is a draft news announcement that will become official (and more complete) soon! TODO: This is too long to announce, too many things. And this is not even finished yet, there will be more gains from this in UI. TODO: Record a …

We’re getting closer to the Godot 3.5 stable release with a fifth beta snapshot! Like with 4.0 alpha builds, we’re trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be va…

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Castle Game Engine: Editor improvements, UI improvements, in-progress Snap packages (Linux packages on any distribution), testing lights and 3D models from Sketchfab

OK, so we have now 3 big things in-progress 🙂 I started to learn Snap packaging. It allows to create packages that work on any Linux distribution and has a connected central store of Snap packages where users can find packages. Both open-source and closed-source packages are allowed there, you can browse existing packages and …

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ET is on Steam!

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was released on Steam.
A dream come true for so many of us who have been with this game for years.
If you actually missed the news, yes this is real.

With the official Steam release we’ve seen an unbelieva…

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 7

This new 4.0 alpha 7 comes with one week delay on our every-other-week release schedule, since I was taking some time off 🙂 But that means it got time for even more features and bug fixes to be finalized, reviewed and merged. See past alpha releases f…

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Godot Sprint and User Meeting Barcelona June 2022

After a couple of years of online-only events, we are bringing back some in-person Godot events. More precisely, today we are announcing two events taking place at Barcelona: a Godot Sprint for contributors (June 2nd & 3rd) and a Godot User Meeting…

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Castle Game Engine: Various improvements: build tool, make, updated Docker image, smaller API updates – TCastleTransform.ExistsInRoot, TCastleImageTransform.Mipmaps

While we continue work on big features (cameras + navigation, see teaser screenshot in this post; physics in editor), here’s a bunch of smaller engine enhancements you can enjoy already: The <compiler_options> in CastleEngineManifest.xml supports now detect_memory_leaks=”true” (detects memory leaks with FPC, ignored by Delphi now), <defines> (best way to specify symbols; they can be …

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ET: Legacy 2.80.1 'Path Cleared!'

With the ET: Legacy 2.80 ‘Clear the Path!’ and the breaking in of a brand new decimal two weeks ago, we leaped into unknown territories.
Unfortunately, it seems like the ET: Legacy 2.80 release wasn’t entirely clean.
Especially, judgin…

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jMonkeyEngine: jMonkeyEngine 3.5.2-stable

A production-quality JMonkeyEngine 3.5 patch release with the following changes relative to 3.5.1-stable:

solved issue 1710 – can’t create windows on armhf platforms by upgrading LWJGL to v3.3.1
solved issue 1788 – mipmaps generated for wrong framebuf…

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Castle Game Engine: 2 big features in-progress, and small editor improvements available already

We have 2 big features in-progress right now: physics branch, by Andrzej Kilijański, with new features related to physics and more comfortable usage of physics in CGE editor. This includes: AutoSize for physics colliders, rigid bodies and colliders that can be added and configured using CGE editor, ability to test physics in editor at design-time, …

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