Dec 21 2020 A Decade of Magnum

On 19th Decem­ber 2010, Mag­num saw its first com­mit. A bunch more com­mits happened since then and I learned some things along the way.

Jul 08 2019 Being productive with your tools

Mag­num is de­veloped with a “Zen Garden” philo­sophy in mind, fo­cus­ing on pro­ductiv­ity, pre­dict­ab­il­ity and ease of use. Let’s see how that can ex­tend bey­ond just the lib­rary it­self — in­to your daily work­flow.

Feb 05 2019 Magnum 2019.01 released

The new ver­sion puts a fo­cus on us­ab­il­ity with tweak­able con­stants for live cod­ing, Dear ImGui in­teg­ra­tion, new pack­ages, Gradle-less An­droid de­vel­op­ment, com­pile time spee­dup and oth­er gen­er­al pol­ish­ing.

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.

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!

May 09 2015 May 2015 updates to Magnum

The Mag­num C++11/C++14 and OpenGL graph­ics en­gine gained OpenGEX format sup­port, a bunch of new im­port­er plu­gins, cross-plat­form ex­ten­sion load­er, trans­form feed­back sup­port and new fea­tures from OpenGL ES 3.1 and OpenGL 4.5, among oth­er things.

Jun 29 2014 June 2014 updates to Magnum

The Mag­num C++11 and OpenGL/OpenGL ES/WebGL graph­ics en­gine gained ex­per­i­ment­al An­droid sup­port, win­dow­less ap­plic­a­tions on OS X and Win­dows, uses SDL2 as the de­fault toolkit, adds new tex­ture and mesh fea­tures, im­proves build sys­tem and got huge doc­u­ment­a­tion re­view.