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It's been years since I last posted here, but the engine never stopped. Apus Engine has powered our games since the early 2000s: Astral Masters, Spectromancer, Astral Heroes and Astral Towers. Right now it's going through its biggest rework yet, Engine 5. Here's a short overview of where it stands. What Apus Engine is A cross-platform 2D/3D game engine written in Object Pascal. One codebase compiles with both Delphi 12+ and Free Pascal 3.2+, and that is a deliberate rule, ...
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 ...
MessageScene Are you familiar with application.MessageBox() or ShowMessage()? I found that in every game I have to implement similar functions to show a message or confirm something. Now it is built into the engine: use TGameApplication.ShowMessage/Ask/Confirm to show a message dialog. Font inheritance In past few UI widgets has their own font property: Button, Label, EditBox, ListBox, so each element must be configured separately. Now "font" ...
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. ...
I've launched a fundraising campaign to publish Astral Masters game on Steam. Now it's 70% done! https://planeta.ru/campaigns/166321
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