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  1. Support for Vertex/Index Buffers

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    Cooler
    , 23-05-2022 at 08:08 AM
    Added support for vertex/index buffers to the engine. Yes, yes, until now there were no GL buffers support in the engine - the geometry was always drawn directly from memory. This may seem strange, because everywhere they write that it is absolutely necessary to use OpenGL buffers for performance reasons. But in practice, everything worked quite fine without buffers - even on mobile devices.

    To check this out I wrote a small demo that draws a million triangles in a frame. On an old     ...
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  2. New engine features

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    Cooler
    , 09-01-2022 at 08:53 PM
    What's new in the Apus Game Engine:

    Texture arrays. A texture array is similar to a 3D texture, but the array elements are indexed using integers. Texture arrays are useful for rendering objects with skins, tiles, etc. These arrays are more convenient and natural than texture atlases.

    Manual mip-maps. Previously, the engine only supported auto-generated mip-map levels. Now the number and content of mip-levels can be set manually. It's especially convenient for visual debugging.     ...
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  3. Astral Masters game on Steam

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    Cooler
    , 02-10-2021 at 12:16 PM
    I've launched a fundraising campaign to publish Astral Masters game on Steam.
    Now it's 70% done!
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    https://planeta.ru/campaigns/166321
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  4. New engine release: Engine4

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    Cooler
    , 07-09-2021 at 12:11 PM
    Just published a new version of Astral Towers game which is built on the 4-th generation API of my Apus Game Engine (Engine4). The game works under Windows and Linux and uses SDL2 library for system management and input processing.

    The engine's revision used in this game is published at GitHub as Engine4-r1
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  5. 3D support!

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    Cooler
    , 18-05-2021 at 09:21 AM
    3D support has been brought into the engine! Added a couple of projects on 3D theme, including projection shadows (shadow map):
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    In principle, 3D rendering was possible in the past - the engine did not interfere with this, but did not help either (except the camera/projection helpers). Now more and more functionality commonly used for rendering 3D scenes is gradually transferred to the engine, so no manual OpenGL calls are required. Currently, there is not     ...

    Updated 07-09-2021 at 12:13 PM by Cooler (category)

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