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  • Cafu 12.05 released

    We're happy and proud to announce immediate availability of Cafu 12.05, the May 2012 binary release of the Cafu Engine!

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    Cafu is an open-source 3D game and graphics engine. The new version 12.05 culminates three years of exciting work into a new stable demo release: It marks ...

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    • Sunday, May 6, 2012
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    by Carsten
  • Release candidates and documentation

    Our preparations for the upcoming stable release are almost complete:

    We've just uploaded the second set of release candidates. They are available at the Downloads page in section "Development Releases", where the files of the release candidates are named Cafu-bin-r525...

    As one of the core features of the release ...

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    • Monday, April 16, 2012
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    by Carsten
  • New release scripts and Windows 2000 support

    The newly developed Model Editor is rapidly approaching completion, and we will take the occasion to create a new stable, binary Cafu Engine demo release as well.

    As creating precompiled, binary Cafu releases has been a lengthy and tiresome process in the past that involved many manual steps and was ...

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    • Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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    by Carsten
  • Cafu Engine used in university game project

    A group of currently 13 students (and growing) at the University of Applied Science of Ingolstadt is using the Cafu Engine for developing a game project in the course of their computer science lectures.

    Their goal is to create a platform independent MMORPG whose gameplay does not involve gun battles ...

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    • Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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    by Carsten
  • Cafu Engine now mirrored at SourceForge

    I'm happy to announce that the Cafu Engine project is now mirrored at SourceForge:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/cafu.mirror/


    Please take a minute to post a review about Cafu at the SourceForge mirror site!

    Many thanks to the SourceForge team who made this possible!

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    • Sunday, January 22, 2012
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    by Carsten
  • Merry Christmas 2011

    Dear friends,

    first and above all, I wish you all a merry Christmas, and a happy New Year! I hope that everyone is up and well, and has some good and peaceful holidays.

    For Cafu, it has been an exciting year that was centered around the development of the new ...

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    • Monday, December 26, 2011
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    by Carsten
  • Cafu on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

    We just completed a set of minor changes to make the Cafu Engine compile and work on the new Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). Ubuntu 11.10 comes with the GCC 4.6.1, and we used the opportunity to streamline the build process as well.

    When you compile from ...

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    • Friday, October 21, 2011
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    by Carsten
  • Of animation channels, blending and poses

    As indicated in my previous post, we continue to make very good progress with the Model Editor, and it looks as if we will not only meet our technical goals, but we can even achieve more than what was originally planned:

    While the Model Editor itself is almost complete now ...

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    • Thursday, October 6, 2011
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    by Carsten
  • Model Editor Screenshot

    After we made a lot of very positive progress with the development of the Model Editor (Introduction) during the past few months, it will soon be complete and ready for release.

    Here is a screenshot of the current state, showing how we used the Model Editor to add a GUI ...

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    • Sunday, August 7, 2011
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    by Carsten
  • Reference Documentation

    New and up-to-date reference documentation for both

    • the Cafu C++ source code, and
    • the Cafu scripting code
    is now available! :wohow:

    We've been documenting most of the C++ source code in the special commenting format for Doxygen for years. Doxygen is a tool for creating reference documentation from special C ...

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    • Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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    by Carsten
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About Cafu

Cafu is a free and open-source game engine for multiplayer, cross-platform, real-time 3D action, distributed under the very liberal MIT license.

It may be used for any purpose, including commercial purposes, at absolutely no cost. Just download it and use it.

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