Castle Game Engine

Cross-platform 3D and 2D game engine with a visual editor and Object Pascal API

Castle Game Engine provides a visual editor for designing 3D and 2D worlds and user interfaces, alongside a code API written in Object Pascal. It supports open data standards such as glTF and X3D, and includes a command-line build tool suited to continuous integration workflows.

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Key facts

Starts at: Contact sales
Free plan: Yes
Free trial: No
Open source: Yes

What it does

Visual editor for designing 3d and 2d worlds and user interfaces with automatic scaling and anchors
Project templates for new projects empty 3d and 2d
File browser with previews for 3d models images and sound files
Designs serialized to json with components and published properties
Designs can reference each other to function like prefabs
Custom project specific components available in the editor
Viewport components with scenes camera and navigation
Flexible hierarchy of transformations and scenes editable in the editor or from pascal code
Tcastlescene for loading and rendering model formats including gltf x3d and sprite sheets
Visible primitive objects such as boxes spheres text and image transforms
Multiple camera support including attaching children to a camera
Navigation components for 2d and 3d worlds including walk examine 2d and third person navigation with avatar
Behaviors that can be attached to transformations such as billboards and sound sources
Tcastletransformreference to reference the same transformation multiple times
Light components point directional and spot lights plus terrain visualization and generation components and multiple viewports usable at once gltf support with skinned animation physically based rendering and metadata support x3d and vrml support including x3d 4 0 with physically based rendering scene graph building and processing of x3d nodes saving scene graphs back to file in x3d or stl format sprite sheet support in castle game engine starling and cocos2d formats sprite sheet editor for creating sprite sheets from texture atlases spine skeletal 2d animation support with an in engine importer reading spine json spine skins and texture atlases supported loading spine json from versions up to and including spine 4 shader effects written in glsl bump mapping with basic parallax and steep parallax with self shadowing algorithms animation blending and cross fading mirrors on flat and curved surfaces physically based rendering by default for gltf and x3d 4 0 models unlit and classic phong shading alternatives command line build tool and docker image ready files and documentation for github actions gitlab ci jenkins woodpecker ci and other ci systems engine is open source and may be used to build proprietary applications integration with ides including visual studio code lazarus and delphi

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