Manual

Castle Game Engine Manual

Contents:

Install
Build your first application
Designing user interface and handling events (press, update) within the state
- Managing States
Viewport with scenes, camera, navigation
- Tutorial: Designing a 3D world
- Tutorial: Designing a 2D world
- Camera
- Navigation
- Writing code to modify scenes and transformations
- Multiple viewports to display one world
User interface
- Custom drawn 2D controls: player HUD
- Text and fonts
- Customize loading image
Editor
- Custom Components in Editor
2D games
- Sprite sheets
- Images
- How to render 2D images/sprites
Physics
Sound
- OpenAL
- FMOD
Persistent data (user preferences, savegames)
Screenshots
Network, downloading and using URLs
Logging
Cross-platform (desktop, mobile, consoles...) projects
- Data directory
- CastleEngineManifest.xml
- Customize UI scaling, font, warmup cache by CastleSettings.xml
- Build Tool
Platforms details
- Android
- Android FAQ
- Android Services (Google Play Games and many more...)
- iOS
- iOS Services (Apple Game Center and many more...)
- In-App Purchases (Android, iOS)
- Nintendo Switch
- macOS
Optimization
- Occlusion Query
- Profiling Using Valgrind
- Detecting Memory Leaks Using HeapTrc
Making rendering prettier
- Gamma Correction
- Blending
- Alpha Bleeding
- Background (skybox, sky and ground)
Use engine inside Lazarus form using TCastleControl
Automatic Builds (Continuous Integration and Delivery)
- GitHub Actions (automatic builds if your project lives on GitHub)
- Docker (easily get CGE, compilers, texture compression tools)
- Jenkins (automatic cloud builds for CGE projects)
Miscellaneous
- Which way is up?
- Transformation hierarchy
- CastleWindow Backends
- Threads
Deprecated: Utilities for typical 3D games
- Overview
- Loading game level
- Player
- Defining creatures and items
- Using creatures and items
- Extending creatures and items classes

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