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YoFrankie homepage: yofrankie.org

Crystal Space is a mature, full-featured Software Development Kit (SDK) providing real-time 3D graphics for applications such as games and virtual reality. It is free (LGPL) and cross-platform (Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X).

The project encompasses two main components and one project putting things together:

	Crystal Space — A modular, configurable, and extensible rendering engine supporting OpenGL and advanced features such as shaders and lighting systems, physics, 3D sounds, animation blending, foliage, terrain, virtual file system, physical peripherals, and more.
	CEL — Entity system supporting higher-level functionality, such as runtime package environment (CELstart), generic event system, avatar and camera management, artificial intelligence (behavior trees, path finding, neural networks and genetic algorithms), vehicles, and more.
	Project Ares — Based on Crystal Space and CEL, the Ares Project aims to be a full featured 3D Game Creation Kit. Create assets using Open Source projects like Blender and GIMP and then load them into AresEd to make fully featured games.

Related projects: YoFrankie!, PlaneShift, Blender (blender2crystal), Project Ares, Peragro Tempus.

Recent News

• 08:21, 12 November 2012: News AresEd 0.0.2

  I'm very happy to announce the first alpha version of AresEd. This is an early release but already usable for smaller games. There is a windows installer and also a linux binary for ubuntu 64-bit. Read all about it here: code.google.com/p/ares/wiki/Release0_0_2

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• 06:50, 20 October 2012: News PlaneShift 0.5.9.2

  Atomic Blue has just released a new version of their free 3d mmorpg based on Crystal Space engine: PlaneShift. They used latest CS trunk , which has been reported by them to be a big improvement in terms of stability. PlaneShift source code is fully Open Source and everyone can contribute to its development. The latest release 0.5.9.2 brings a number of improvements including: Herbalism, alchemy, gem enchanting, new quests and improved rules, as well as simplified NPC interaction and new spell effects. Overall it's a good showcase of the CrystalSpace capabilities, go and check it out! A link to the PS site: www.planeshift.it/

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• 13:42, 17 August 2012: Ares Blog August 2012

  Jorrit just posted a new blog entry on AresEd. In case you don't know yet, AresEd is going to be a high level tool for editing full 3D games using Crystal Space and CEL. It is currently in an almost usable state (so consider it alpha software). Read about the recent developments here: projectares.blogspot.be/2012/08/work-on-aresed.html I just posted another blog reporting on the Google Summer of Code this year: projectares.blogspot.be/2012/08/google-summer-of-code.html

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• 22:05, 2 July 2012: News Crystal Space 2.0

  Jorrit Tyberghein and the rest of the Crystal Space and Crystal Entity Layer development teams are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CS and CEL version 2.0. Check out the Download page for the files and further information, and the release highlights page for an overview of the new features.

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