Welcome to another Godot showcase interview! This time, we interviewed Leszek Nowak from 2DynamicGames about their latest release Lumencraft.

Introduce yourself (or your studio) in a few sentences.
My name is Leszek Nowak and I’m a part of independent…

You can easily query whether the scene or shape was (potentially, at least partially) visible in the last rendering event. This accounts for both frustum culling and occlusion culling. Use , for this. Demo is in examples/viewport_and_scenes/test_was_visible. See forum thread for history behind this feature. You can use TCastleRenderOptions.RobustNegativeScale to make lighting work correctly even …

In both glTF and X3D we implement now a feature to “emphasize / deemphasize normal map”. In glTF this is in material.normalTextureInfo.scale, in X3D this is in normalScale parameter of Material or PhysicalMaterial. The intuitive meaning of it is: value = 1 is the default, regular bump mapping behavior. values < 1 make normal map …

I was playing with latest FreeBSD (after listening to an excellent talk about the troubles with FreeBSD which nicely discusses non-technical problems in large open-source volunteer-led project). Naturally, I tested Castle Game Engine on FreeBSD and it works flawlessly 🙂 I made a release of current CGE for FreeBSD. This was done just by cd …

We’re continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 – this time with 4.0 alpha 6. See past alpha releases for details (alpha 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete…

A recording of my presentation last Tuesday about X3D 4, PBR, glTF, and CGE is available. Watch it here: The plan of the presentation, along with various links that I mention in the talk, is here. This the 3rd YouTube movie from me this week. Do you think I can finally become an Influencer? 🙂 …