Castle Game Engine: Optimizing memory usage, part 1: efficient step animation, using component system in X3D nodes (no interfaces), less memory used by sprite sheets

Nudged by the report of high memory usage I want to seriously optimize memory usage of CGE. Right now X3D nodes cost too much in memory — which limits some use-cases (when spawning a lot of TCastleScenes would be the most natural solution), and it affects both loading and runtime performance (as loading is slower …

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This Week In Veloren 144

Hats were merged this week, and the server hosting section of The Book was
updated.

– AngelOnFira, TWiV Editor

Contributor Work

Thanks to this week’s contributors, @zesterer, @Slipped, @Oolnokk, @Sam,
@Evelyn, @xMAC94x, @juliancoffee, @tijnvdheuvel, @Pfau, @IsseW, @Kemper, and
@Demonic!

This week, @Mckol finished a major rewrite of the server hosting section of The
Book. Hats were also merged! Check out the images below:

That’s all we have for this week! See you next week!

Support our devs!

Veloren Open Collective

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Libre Arts: Halloween art 2021

Over the past week, I’ve seen quite a few nice Halloween-themed artworks made with free/libre software. Here are my personal picks of the ones made with Blender and Krita.

Oh, and let’s have none of this “sexy witch” nonsense. Macabre is fine though somehow 🙂

Happy Halloween from Dennys J M Pinheda, Krita:

Crows, by mikak, Krita:

Happy Halloween by huleeb, Blender:

Pumpkin’s Trick or Treat by Thornydre, Blender:

’”Sick hat, Bro,” said the man in a tree.’ by yagrum, Blender:

Bonus part, a speedpainting video of that:

I like a lot what Metin Seven does, but his things with teeth are absolute best, this zombie head in particular!

Possessed Pumpkins by Steffen Hartmann, Blender:

Haunted house by GurjasStudios, Blender:

I nearly posted a still version of this, but the animation is so much more fun!

And this one is good too, can’t help myself feeling bad for the poor sod there limping away from the creature.

Somehow, this witch’s cottage by Liam Reagan is spooky realistic. Blender.

And because everything ends well when deevad is involved, here is Trick or treat! by David Revoy, Krita:

Featured image of the post is Pumpkin warlock by Asya Reshetnikova, Blender.

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