May 14 2018 Simple and efficient Vulkan loading with flextGL

Play­ing with Vulkan but don’t want to in­clude thou­sands lines of vari­ous head­ers just to call a few func­tions? Flex­t­GL just learned Vulkan sup­port and it’s here to speed up your turn­around times.

May 02 2018 Magnum 2018.04 released — with custom renderer support

The new re­lease brings more flex­ib­il­ity to as­set man­age­ment and ren­der­ing ab­strac­tions, im­proves plu­gin hand­ling and show­cases Leap Mo­tion in­teg­ra­tion.

Apr 05 2018 Buildsystem reorganization for smaller minimal builds

Mag­num mas­ter branch re­ceived a few break­ing changes to the build­sys­tem to fur­ther slim down the lib­rary in pre­par­a­tion for Vulkan sup­port.

Mar 27 2018 Plugin usability improvements

I made a brief de­tour on the way to Vulkan sup­port and equipped Mag­num with fea­tures that make plu­gin work­flow nicer and open up new pos­sib­il­it­ies.

Feb 20 2018 Magnum 2018.02 released

The new Mag­num mile­stone brings WebGL 2.0 and WebAssembly, VR sup­port, lots of niceties for Win­dows users, iOS port, new ex­per­i­ment­al UI lib­rary, im­proved test­ing cap­ab­il­it­ies, sup­port for over 80 new as­set formats, new ex­amples and much more.

Feb 05 2018 Implementing a fast Doxygen search

Mag­num docs were miss­ing the search func­tion­al­ity for some time be­cause I wanted to im­ple­ment it prop­erly for the new theme. The prop­er im­ple­ment­a­tion is now ready.

Jan 22 2018 Introducing Guest Posts

One of the goals while build­ing the new Mag­num web­site was to lower the bar­ri­er for con­trib­ut­ing con­tent. With Git and Git­Hub it’s already very easy to con­trib­ute code to the pro­ject it­self, so why not ex­tend that to the web­site as well?

Jan 15 2018 Area Lights with LTCs

A new Mag­num ex­ample im­ple­ments an ana­lyt­ic meth­od for area light shad­ing presen­ted in the pa­per “Real-Time Poly­gon­al-Light Shad­ing with Lin­early Trans­formed Co­sines”, by Eric Heitz, Jonath­an Dupuy, Steph­en Hill and Dav­id Neu­belt.

Jan 03 2018 New Magnum website is here — a stepping stone for what is to come

The new web­site does a bet­ter job at clearly present­ing en­gine fea­tures and en­ables the team to share pro­gress easi­er than be­fore. Be­sides that, its de­vel­op­ment res­ul­ted in many valu­able byproducts for both C++ de­velopers and web con­tent pub­lish­ers.

Aug 25 2017 WebAssembly support in Magnum — and more

Along with dropped sup­port for NaCl, Mag­num now has first-class WebAssembly sup­port. I also took this op­por­tun­ity to over­haul the out­dated Show­case page with WebAssembly builds and there is a bunch more Em­scripten-re­lated good­ies all over the place!