quad-engine

[Darthman]

0.6.1 Update has been released:

• QuadLog is now threadsafe
• Added button handlers for IQuadWindow
• Added new events for IQuadWindow
• Value binding in IQuadShader no more bring memory leaks
• Added clipping functional in IQuadRender
• SetDistanceFieldParams now correctly working with batching
• Added IQuadCamera with translate, rotate and zoom
• First implementation of IQuadProfiler for searching bottlenecks in render pipeline
• Initialization of render changed and extended. Added new parameters such as VSync.
• SmartColoring now works with DistantField fonts
• Added hardware cursor support
• Optimizations and small fixes

[farcodev]

Damn, keep it up!

[Darthman]

0.6.2 has been released.
Freepascal is now supported.
http://quad-engine.com/

[Darthman]

Is there any reason to do Quad-engine opensource?

[phibermon]

If it lets people do what they want to do without limitations over comparable engines then there's no big requirement to go open source.

However it can help attract more users. There's a general preference for 'compiled in' solutions - if you stop developing / don't support some new desired feature, all projects that use your engine are affected too. It's forcing a dependency without any guarantee that you'll support peoples projects in future. Potentially people could be putting years worth of work into a project so future viability of their dependencies becomes important.

Plus assuming you have a big enough user base you'll get bug-reports and submissions that'll accelerate the project - so you'll be able to do more yourself than time currently lets you.

[Darthman]

So starting today Quad-engine goes OpenSource:

https://bitbucket.org/Darthman/quad

[paul_nicholls]

very generous