Castle Game Engine internals

Most of this documentation was originally written as my master's thesis, passed in September 2006. Although I was occasionally updating and adding content to this document later.

This is an outdated overview of the Castle Game Engine and VRML 1.0.

Warning: This document isn't a good introduction to the Castle Game Engine (anymore)!

  • It talks too much about engine internals.
  • It shows too little of the engine API (and features) used during normal game creation by a developer. It doesn't even mention many of the key engine features added in engine >= 3.
  • It discusses many features of VRML 1.0, which is a very ancient 3D format nowadays. The document doesn't show (in depth) features of VRML 2.0, modern X3D, and many enhancements of X3D in Castle Game Engine. Or glTF.

View in various formats:

Sources

See cge-documentation repository, subdirectory vrml_engine_internals. This contains full DocBook sources, Makefile, XSL, images — everything you need to remake the HTML / PDF outputs above. See the README for information how to regenerate it.

The example VRML 1.0/2.0 models, used for screenshots in this work, are available inside our demo models (see in vrml_engine_doc_simple_examples subdirectory). So you can view them comfortably in Castle Model Viewer etc.

Documentation
  1. Tutorial: 3D physics fun
    1. Manual
      1. Creating Game Data
        1. API Reference
        2. Why Pascal?
        3. Modern Object Pascal Introduction
          1. Overview for Unity Developers
          2. Scene Graph: X3D nodes
            1. Conferences

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