RIM releases Gameplay 3d 1.5

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I have been following RIM’s Gameplay 3d engine for some time now and they have been improving it at a pretty impressive rate.  Well, they just announced the release of version 1.5.  If you’ve never heard of Gameplay, it is a cross platform mobile game development kit written in C++, but scriptable in Lua.

 

Gameplay3d currently supports the following targets:

  • BlackBerry 10 and PlayBook 2.0 (using BlackBerry Native SDK)
  • Apple iOS 5.1 (using Apple XCode 4.3.2)
  • Google Android 2.3+ (using Google Android NDK, SDK API level 9+)

 

And can be developed using the following platforms/compilers:

  • Microsoft Windows 7 (using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010)
  • Apple MacOS X (using Apple XCode 4.3.2)
  • Linux (using CMake or CodeBlocks 10)

 

As to what’s new in 1.5:

  • Linux support. (tested on Ubuntu 12)
  • CMake support for makefile generation for Linux.
  • CodeBlocks 10 IDE support for Linux.
  • Gamepad controllers support for desktops.
  • Touch gesture support for tap, swipe and pinch.
  • Vehicle phyics support via new PhysicsVehicle and PhysicsVehicleWheel classes.
  • Adds new racer sample (sample06-racer).
  • Adds gameplay-tests project as a test app for various basic engine features with some initial tests.
  • Adds support for Scene files for wildcard identifiers.
  • Adds Visual Studio Plug-in support for BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry 10.
  • Adds configurable multi-sampling anti-aliasing support.
  • Adds updates to latest FBX SDK 2013.3.
  • Adds file formats documenation for game.config .scene, .material, .animation, .physics, .particle
  • Adds Game/Platform::canExit for testing device capabilities to quit. (only ios)
  • Web community forums at http://www.gameplay3d.org/forums.
  • Changed keyTimes from unsigned long[] to unsigned int[]. (breaks compat. in AnimationTarget and Animation::Channel)
  • Fixed inconsistencies from Bundle::getObjectID() to Bundle::getObjectId() (breaks compat. in Bundle)
  • Fixes the texture coordinates of Mesh::createQuad(float x, float y, float width, float height).
  • Fixes line-wise distortion when loading RGB png’s into texture that are non-power of two.
  • Fixes inconsitencies in createXXXX methods. (breaks compat. in Scene)
  • Fixes Rectanngle::contains.
  • Fixes Lua print logging.
  • Fixes Lua errors to be treated as runtime warnings.
  • Fixes setVertexData to pointers instead of constant data.
  • Fixed AudioSource so that it doesn’t loop by default.
  • Fixes minor UI scrolling issues.

 

And what’s in the works:

  • AI Pathfinding
  • Terrain and Water
  • Asset Pipeline improvements

 

You can download Gameplay on Github.  For a quick guide on getting started check here, it’s a bit old but should still be mostly relevant.

 

Good work Gameplay team!

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