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.

Mar 11 2019 Teaching VR with Magnum

Last year, Mag­num was used to in­tro­duce stu­dents to vir­tu­al real­ity pro­gram­ming at the Lud­wig-Max­imili­ans-Uni­versität München — power­ing a CAVE-like en­vir­on­ment, a room-scale five-sided pro­jec­tion in­stall­a­tion.

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.

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.