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 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.

May 27 2020 New geometry pipeline in Magnum

Flex­ible and ef­fi­cient mesh rep­res­ent­a­tion, cus­tom at­trib­utes, new data types and a ton of new pro­cessing, visu­al­iz­a­tion and ana­lyz­ing tools. GPU-friendly geo­metry stor­age as it should be in the 21st cen­tury.

Feb 28 2019 How Magnum does GFX API enum mapping

En­gines sup­port­ing more than one graph­ics backend very of­ten need to trans­late vari­ous enum val­ues — pixel formats, prim­it­ive types etc. — from a gen­er­ic API-ag­nost­ic value to the one used by a par­tic­u­lar im­ple­ment­a­tion, in the fast­est-pos­sible and most ro­bust way.

Feb 18 2019 Array view implementations in Magnum

Sim­il­arly to the point­er and ref­er­ence wrap­pers de­scribed in the last art­icle, Mag­num’s ar­ray views re­cently re­ceived STL com­pat­ib­il­ity as well. Let’s take that as an op­por­tun­ity to com­pare them with the stand­ard im­ple­ment­a­tion in std::span.

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 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.