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 [url=https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-m

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.

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.

A new release has been just finalised: nCine 2020.05.

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.

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.

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: [ul]

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: