Here we go! It’s time to present you with a new Flax 1.5! This update contains many cool features like multiplayer support, gameplay framework, ImGui/DLSS plugins, Hierarchical Tags, and lots of other good stuff. For this update together with our contributors, we’ve made over 934 commits and merged 111 Pull Read more…
We got it! We’d like to present you with a brand new Flax 1.4! This version brings lots of new features like Realtime Global Illumination, better licensing, crowd navigation, large world support, and tons of good stuff. For this update together with our contributors, we’ve made over 643 commits and Read more…
Hello and welcome to the new Flax Facts! It’s our blog posts series about Flax development. This time we will go through the upcoming feature which is Ragdoll system. This blog post will cover how this new addition can enrich your games and how to use it. Fall Guys Ragdolls Read more…
Today we’ve published the first update of Flax in 2020. This includes lots of bug fixes of issues you’ve reported to us. We also added some minor features such as: Channel Mask parameter type to materials and particles for simple masking of the color channels (RGBA) – useful when creating Read more…
Feature Preview: Prefabs In the latest Flax Alpha update version 0.2.6165 we’ve shipped very important feature: Nested Prefabs. Prefabs are assets used to build archetypes of actors and scripts to be reused when building game levels or by the gameplay logic. Creating procedural levels is a very good example where Read more…
Feature Preview: Decals In the latest Flax Alpha update version 0.1.6156 we’ve shipped another exciting feature: Decals rendering. Decals are special objects placed in the world that use a material to project it onto the other objects surfaces (including models and animated models). For example, a blood stain texture and Read more…
Game saved. Another Friday Flax Facts! Today we have a bold topic. How many times were you in need of writing your own system for handling persistent data between restarts: game states, configurations, local runtime asset storage and everything that needs to be held for the user until next session? Read more…
Shading Surfaces using Shaders Hello! It’s Friday again! As always we have some news for you and of course interesting post. This time I will talk a little about our shaders, especially parsing shaders. But first the news. In this week we added more support for Compute pipeline in DirectX Read more…
Open Source Editor Welcome to fresh Flax Facts post! Today I want to talk a little about our current task which is: Moving Editor to C#. Yeah, kind of dramatic change, especially because 3 years ago whole engine was running on C# 🙂 But we don’t move everything… Plug in Read more…
Hello there! Welcome to the first pots of Flax Facts blog series! We have a lot of things to share from out development so every Friday we will try to write about something interesting (series inspired by the Factorio game blog). Refactor, refactor, refactor… Once in the past I wrote Read more…