Aug 02 2022 Convenient CPU feature detection and dispatch

A new Mag­num fea­ture provides ef­fi­cient com­pile-time and runtime CPU de­tec­tion and dis­patch on x86, ARM and WebAssembly. The core idea be­hind al­lows adding new vari­ants without hav­ing to write any dis­patch­ing code.

Jul 02 2020 Magnum 2020.06 released

Re­designed geo­metry pipeline to­geth­er with massive ad­di­tions to im­port­er plu­gins, new de­bug­ging, visu­al­iz­a­tion and pro­fil­ing tools, new ex­amples in­clud­ing flu­id sim­u­la­tion and raytra­cing, in­stan­cing in built­in shaders and a gal­lery of cool pro­jects to get in­spired from.

Oct 30 2019 Magnum 2019.10 released

The new re­lease brings Py­thon bind­ings, Basis Uni­ver­sal tex­ture com­pres­sion, im­proved STL in­ter­op­er­ab­il­ity, bet­ter Uni­code ex­per­i­ence for Win­dows users, a more ef­fi­cient Em­scripten ap­plic­a­tion im­ple­ment­a­tion, single-head­er lib­rar­ies, new OpenGL driver work­arounds and much more.

Jun 05 2019 New Application implementation for Emscripten

If you build your Mag­num apps for the web, you can now make use of a new fea­ture-packed, smal­ler and more power-ef­fi­cient ap­plic­a­tion im­ple­ment­a­tion. It is us­ing the Em­scripten HTM­L5 APIs dir­ectly in­stead of go­ing through com­pat­ib­il­ity lay­ers.

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.

Oct 24 2018 Magnum 2018.10 released — with animation and Vulkan interop

Among oth­er high­lights is a new glTF play­er app, HiDPI sup­port, spline in­ter­pol­a­tion, a Box2D ex­ample and pro­ductiv­ity im­prove­ments all across the board.

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.

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.

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.