It has been already ten years since the first commit!
I have written a retrospective article about my last years of constant working on the same open-source project. Read More →
I have written a retrospective article about my last years of constant working on the same open-source project. Read More →
SpookyGhost, my procedural animation tool for 2D sprites made with the nCine, is now free and open source!
Starting now there is no more a demo version and the source code is released on GitHub under the MIT license: https://github.com/SpookyGhost2D/SpookyGhost
You can use it for your commercial projects and never have to pay anything.
I have also added many new features and fixed some bugs. Have a look at the latest devlog for more information. Read More →
A new release of ncJump has been published today by Antonio “Fahien” Caggiano.
ncJump is a platform game that uses Box2D for the physics, ImGui for the editor and of course the nCine. It has been developed as an nCine reference version of the CS50’s lecture 4.
On Fahien’s GitHub you can find the ncJump, ncJump-data and ncJump-artifacts repositories.
You can read progress update articles and interact with the author on both GitHub Discussions and Itch.io.
As with other nCine projects, there is an Emscripten version that you can try online on Fahien’s site.
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ncJump is a platform game that uses Box2D for the physics, ImGui for the editor and of course the nCine. It has been developed as an nCine reference version of the CS50’s lecture 4.
On Fahien’s GitHub you can find the ncJump, ncJump-data and ncJump-artifacts repositories.
You can read progress update articles and interact with the author on both GitHub Discussions and Itch.io.
As with other nCine projects, there is an Emscripten version that you can try online on Fahien’s site.
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The year has just begun but there are already two important news I would like to share.
Let's begin with the first one: the project has been one of the recipients of the Icculus Microgrant 2020!
The second news is that I have just uploaded on GitHub the source code of ncTiledViewer, a viewer for Tiled maps.
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Let's begin with the first one: the project has been one of the recipients of the Icculus Microgrant 2020!
The second news is that I have just uploaded on GitHub the source code of ncTiledViewer, a viewer for Tiled maps.
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The nCine version of the fourth JugiMap Framework demo by Jugilus have been uploaded on GitHub.
You will find the ncJugiMapGuiDemo and the ncJugiMapGuiDemo-data repositories for you to build the test.
You will also find the same demo among the web-tests.
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You will find the ncJugiMapGuiDemo and the ncJugiMapGuiDemo-data repositories for you to build the test.
You will also find the same demo among the web-tests.
You can read the the #16 development update, with the progress from the second half of May to the first half of November 2020 at the following address: https://encelo.github.io/2020-11-28-ncine-dev-update-16/.
Some of the highlights:
A new fault-tolerant loading API for resources
Ability to toggle the Android soft keyboard
Support for Tracy v0.7.3 multiple memory pools tracking
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Some of the highlights:
All nCine projects are now continuously integrated using GitHub Actions workflows. The old Azure Pipelines setup has been decommissioned and it will not be used anymore.
With this migration, the C.I. is now more integrated with the code as everything is accessible from GitHub. For example, have a look at the nCine actions page showing the building workflows. You will also notice the new CodeQL workflow and status badges in the README.md file.
There is also another news related to building the source code: the develop branch does not exist anymore. It is a transition from the Git Flow model ... Read More →
With this migration, the C.I. is now more integrated with the code as everything is accessible from GitHub. For example, have a look at the nCine actions page showing the building workflows. You will also notice the new CodeQL workflow and status badges in the README.md file.
There is also another news related to building the source code: the develop branch does not exist anymore. It is a transition from the Git Flow model ... Read More →
I have recently added UTF-8 strings decoding and the possibility to display Unicode glyphs.
You just have to select the glyphs you want to export with one of the many AngelCode's Bitmap Font tools.
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You just have to select the glyphs you want to export with one of the many AngelCode's Bitmap Font tools.
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You can read the the #15 development update, with the progress from April to the first half of May 2020, at the following address: https://encelo.github.io/2020-07-14-ncine-dev-update-15/.
Some of the highlights:
The nCine version of the third JugiMap Framework demo by Jugilus have been uploaded on GitHub.
You will find the ncJugiMapSpriteTimelineAnimation and the ncJugiMapSpriteTimelineAnimation-data repositories for you to build the test.
You will also find the same demo among the web-tests.
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You will find the ncJugiMapSpriteTimelineAnimation and the ncJugiMapSpriteTimelineAnimation-data repositories for you to build the test.
You will also find the same demo among the web-tests.
A new release has been just finalised: nCine 2020.05.
Some of its highlights are covered by the following video:
JugiMap API supports the nCine
Sprite system enhancements
Qt5 desktop backend
Nuklear GUI integration
FileSystem API
Support for ANGLE rendering libraries on Windows
For a more detailed list of changes and improvements you can refer to the Release 2020.05 page.
Don't forget to check the updated DoxyGen documentation and the Lua API functions list. Read More →
Some of its highlights are covered by the following video:
For a more detailed list of changes and improvements you can refer to the Release 2020.05 page.
Don't forget to check the updated DoxyGen documentation and the Lua API functions list. Read More →
After quite some time I'm now nearly done with the introduction of custom memory allocators support.
It required a big overhaul of my custom containers as well, as they didn't clearly separate the allocation phase from object construction.
Now that most of the work is done I can celebrate with a short video that explains the four types of memory allocators supported by the nCine: Linear, Stack, Pool and FreeList.
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It required a big overhaul of my custom containers as well, as they didn't clearly separate the allocation phase from object construction.
Now that most of the work is done I can celebrate with a short video that explains the four types of memory allocators supported by the nCine: Linear, Stack, Pool and FreeList.
You can read the the #14 development update, with the progress from the second half of December 2019 to the first half of March 2020, at the following address: https://encelo.github.io/2020-03-23-ncine-dev-update-14//.
Some of the highlights:
Yesterday I published SpookyGhost, a tool that lets you animate multiple sprites in a procedural way.
It is based on the nCine, meaning it is coded in C++, it uses ImGui, and it would potentially run on all the engine supported platforms: Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and Emscripten.
At the moment you can download a demo for Windows and macOS.
It has no limitations, you can find it on Itch.io.
Some of the tool features are:
It is based on the nCine, meaning it is coded in C++, it uses ImGui, and it would potentially run on all the engine supported platforms: Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and Emscripten.
At the moment you can download a demo for Windows and macOS.
It has no limitations, you can find it on Itch.io.
Some of the tool features are:
- Parent-child relations between sprites for advanced transformations
- You can create animation groups and play them in parallel or sequentially
- Unlimited canvas size ...
You can read the the #13 development update, with the progress from the second half of September to the first half of December 2019, at the following address: https://encelo.github.io/2019-12-24-ncine-dev-update-13/.
Some of the highlights: