Crystal Space 3D

An introduction for potential future Google Summer of Code students has been posted: https://sourceforge.net/p/crystal/discussion/gsoc/

Crystal Space was again accepted for Google Summer of code 2014! (http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014). Google Sumer of Code is a yearly event where Google gives students a chance to do a paid summer job for Open ... [More] Source projects. So if you are a student and are interested in earning a bit of money during the summer then you can apply for any of the 177 accepted projects. More specifically you can apply for Crystal Space. You can apply (both as a mentor or as a student) at the Crystal Space Google Summer of Code site (http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/crystal). From there you can also visit the ideas page. But of course you are free to suggest your own ideas too. I would especially like to see ideas related to the AresEd project for example. Discussion about Google Summer of Code can be done on our mailing lists or forums: Community We're looking forward to working with you! [Less]

We did it again! Crystal Space got accepted as an organisation for Google Summer of Code 2013 (http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013). Google Sumer of Code is a yearly event where Google gives students a chance to do a ... [More] paid summer job for Open Source projects. So if you are a student and are interested in earning a bit of money during the summer then you can apply for any of the 177 accepted projects. More specifically you can apply for Crystal Space. You can apply (both as a mentor or as a student) at the Crystal Space Google Summer of Code site (http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/crystalspace). From there you can also visit the ideas page. But of course you are free to suggest your own ideas too. We're looking forward to working with you! [Less]

I am planning to start an Indie game project. The plan is to go commercial but keep all assets and source code free. I'm looking for people to help me with this. Artists and coders. Read all about it here on my blog: http://projectares.blogspot.be/2013/03/going-commercial.html

I started a new Crystal Space community on Google+ (new feature there). This community is the ideal place to let everyone know what you're doing with CS. You can also show off your screenshots there. You can visit (and join) this community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/105380152825085158376

I'm very happy to announce the first alpha version of AresEd. This is an early release but already usable for smaller games. There is a windows installer and also a linux binary for ubuntu 64-bit. Read all about it here: http://code.google.com/p/ares/wiki/Release0_0_2

Atomic Blue has just released a new version of their free 3d mmorpg based on Crystal Space engine: PlaneShift. They used latest CS trunk , which has been reported by them to be a big improvement in terms of stability. PlaneShift source code ... [More] is fully Open Source and everyone can contribute to its development. The latest release 0.5.9.2 brings a number of improvements including: Herbalism, alchemy, gem enchanting, new quests and improved rules, as well as simplified NPC interaction and new spell effects. Overall it's a good showcase of the CrystalSpace capabilities, go and check it out! A link to the PS site: http://www.planeshift.it/ [Less]

Jorrit just posted a new blog entry on AresEd. In case you don't know yet, AresEd is going to be a high level tool for editing full 3D games using Crystal Space and CEL. It is currently in an almost usable state (so consider it alpha ... [More] software). Read about the recent developments here: http://projectares.blogspot.be/2012/08/work-on-aresed.html I just posted another blog reporting on the Google Summer of Code this year: http://projectares.blogspot.be/2012/08/google-summer-of-code.html [Less]

I just acquired an ASUS Transformer Tablet with Tegra 3 processor. I've seen a few 3D games on it (demos and free games) and performance is unbelievable. I'm currently busy experimenting with the development options for this platform and it seems ... [More] very good indeed. The normal development language for Android is Java but it is also possible to make native apps in C++ using the NDK. Specifically for the Tegra processor you can get a customized version of the NDK and SDK from nvidia directly which is easier to set up. It works on windows and linux. Using these tools it should be possible to make a working port of Crystal Space on Android. Especially Android devices with Tegra type processors or higher should be able to run pretty powerful Crystal Space games but I'm hoping that older processors can also use it a bit. So what is my current dream? You all know that I'm working on AresEd. I would *love* to be able to develop Android 3D games using AresEd. The idea would be that users can install Ares as an application launcher for Ares specific games. AresEd itself would probably not run on the Android but at least the Ares game player should. So I'm trying to find people to help me with this. I will certainly work on this but I can't do this alone as this needs testing on various devices and there are also areas in CS that I'm not that comfortable with (like shaders and stuff like that). Let me know if you're interested. [Less]

Jorrit Tyberghein and the rest of the Crystal Space and Crystal Entity Layer development teams are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CS and CEL version 2.0. Check out the Download page for the files and further information, and the release highlights page for an overview of the new features.