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.

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 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.

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.

Mar 13 2014 How to draw a red square in Magnum — in one statement

After read­ing the “How to draw a red square in Qt Quick” blog post show­cas­ing the sim­pli­city of Qt API I thought it would be in­ter­est­ing to try some­thing sim­il­ar in Mag­num for com­par­is­on.

Jan 21 2014 January 2014 updates to Magnum

Since the pre­vi­ous Oc­to­ber snap­shot Mag­num gained Visu­al Stu­dio port, font con­ver­sion util­ity, im­proved text ren­der­ing along with ex­ample ap­plic­a­tion, sup­port for OpenGL de­bug out­put, doc­u­ment­a­tion up­dates, bet­ter test cov­er­age and many more us­ab­il­ity im­prove­ments and fixes.

Dec 11 2013 Reducing C++ compilation time in Magnum: code optimizations

Large C++ pro­jects of­ten suf­fer with very long times for both full and in­cre­ment­al com­pil­a­tion, severely hurt­ing pro­ductiv­ity. The fol­low­ing series will over­view some tech­niques em­ployed in Mag­num to make it­er­a­tion times smal­ler, this art­icle fo­cuses on code-based op­tim­iz­a­tions.

Oct 30 2013 October 2013 updates to Magnum

Sum­mary of changes dur­ing the first two months after pub­lic re­lease. Two new ports, us­ab­il­ity im­prove­ments, OpenGL lim­it quer­ies and in­tro­duc­tion of API de­prec­a­tion.