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Flax Facts #15 – Documentation is Live!

Flax Docs and Samples Some of you already saw it but let’s announce it officially. Flax documentation is live!. It available to access on: www.docs.flaxengine.com We’ve also prepared a set of sample projects and features examples which will be included as a part of the starter pack. This will help you start games development as
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Flax Facts #14 – Volumetric Fog

Feature Preview: Volumetric Fog Hello again and welcome to the Flax Facts! Recently we’re doing many feature previews (profiler, game cooker) and that’s because there are tons of new stuff going on here. So every time something new shows up, we’re very excited to show it to you. Today we’re gonna talk about the very
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Flax Facts #13 – Profiler

Feature Preview: Profiler Welcome to the first Flax Facts in 2018! I’m very excited to show you our the latest engine feature: profiling tools set. Although Flax is running pretty good and has a great performance it’s important to keep eye on draw/update time charts and deliver games that run stable and smooth. So that’s
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Flax Facts #12 – Game Cooker

Feature Preview: Game Cooker Welcome to the new Flax Facts! We’re moving forward with development. In fact, a proper game input infrastructure is ready (with virtual axes/action mappings and gamepads support). Today is time to show you one of the coolest features we have in the Editor: Game Cooker. It’s an inbuilt tool used to
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Flax for Xbox One is here!

Xbox One and UWP platform support We’re pleased to announce that Universal Windows Platform support is coming to the Flax Engine! Development builds of Flax’s UWP technology already run great on Windows 10 and Xbox One. We also look forward to supporting innovative UWP powered devices like the HoloLens and Surface Hub! Universal Windows Platform
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Flax Facts #11 – Progress

Progres Update Welcome to the new Flax Facts! It has been very productive month. Many new improvements and features had been added including finished physics and game settings infrastructure. We also keep improving Flax Editor so using it constantly gets better and better. Now it’s time to show you some pics and gifs with all

Flax Facts #10 – Scripts debugging

Feature Preview: Tool for Visual Studio Welcome back to the Flax Facts! Recently I’ve finished our brand new extension for Visual Studio (VS) that enables game scripts debugging. It’s definitely must have for every game programmer. It allows to debug and track code execution live. The plugin comes up with features like: breakpoints, threads stack
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Flax Facts #9 – Material Editor

Feature Preview: Material Editor Welcome to the new Flax Facts! There was a small break but we’ve done a lot of good stuff meanwhile. New C# Editor starts to look great. In fact, it has all the good features from the old C++ version plus many new useful things. Now we’re working on Custom Editors
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Flax Facts #8 – The Roadmap

Project info Welcome to new Friday Flax Facts! Today I want to talk about our current tasks and the project status. Our roadmap is getting clearer and release plan more possible. But firstly let’s start with the current progress. C# Editor – good or bad idea? After a few weeks of work we’ve got working
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Flax Facts #7 – Universal API

Universal API Hidden behind decompiler Many modern game engines, actually all of them that I know of uses 4 different APIs for UI elements. Editor Internal API – for all elements that were not designed to be modified, or intermediate methods that hide “complicated” stuff Editor Public API – all methods that we get to
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