Pascal Game Development - Castle Game Engine 3.0.0 Released

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Thanks AthenaOfDelphi

We're proud to announce a new version of Castle Game Engine 3.0.0 (previously known as "Kambi VRML game engine"). It's a cross-platform open-source 3D engine for FPC/Lazarus, using VRML/X3D (can be exported from any 3D modeler) as it's main scene format.

Together with new engine version, we also release new view3dscene 3.11.0. view3dscene is our "Swiss army knife", a browser/viewer for 3D files using our engine underneath.

For developers, the main page with engine sources and documentation is here.

New in this release:

Many Collada import improvements.
Geometry shaders.
"Limit FPS" option, to not exhaust user CPU with your games/tools. Developers control this with TGLApplication.LimitFPS property (see reference for TGLApplicationProcessMessage and TGLApplication.LimitFPS).
Improvements to compositing shaders extensions.
More image formats supported out-of-the-box, thanks to FPC fcl-image.
FPC generics are used everywhere, for all our containers.
Improvements to use modern OpenGL >= 3 functionality.
And some more, see full news on our webpage.

Some features planned for engine 3.0.0 (most notably: nice engine tutorial, and classes to comfortably add creatures AI) had to be postponed to later engine 3.1.0. So, be on the lookout for next engine release too!