MonoGame, the popular cross platform spin-off the now dead XNA framework has just released version 3.3.
For the official release notes:
This is a short summary of all the changes in this release:
- Support for vertex texture fetch on Windows.
- New modern classes for KeyboardInput and MessageBox.
- Added more validation to draw calls and render states.
- Cleaned up usage of statics to support multiple GraphicsDevice instances.
- Support Window.Position on WindowsGL platform.
- Reduction of redundant OpenGL calls.
- Fullscreen support for Windows DX platform.
- Implemented Texture2D SaveAsPng and SaveAsJpeg for Android.
- Improved GamePad deadzone calculations.
- We now use FFmpeg for audio content building.
- BoundingSphere fixes and optimizations.
- Many improvements to Linux platform.
- Various fixes to FontTextureProcessor.
- New Windows Universal App template for Windows Store and Windows Phone support.
- Many fixes to reduce garbage generation during runtime.
- Adding support for TextureFormatOptions to FontDescriptionProcessor.
- XNA compatibility improvements to FontDescriptionProcessor.
- Resuscitated the unit test framework with 100s of additional unit tests.
- BoundingFrustum fixes and optimizations.
- Added VS2013 project templates.
- Moved to new MonoGame logo.
- Added MSAA render target support for OpenGL platforms.
- Added optional content compression support to content pipeline and runtime.
- TextureCube content reader and GetData fixes.
- New OpenAL software implementation for Android.
- Xact compatibility improvements.
- Lots of Android fixes and improvements.
- Added MediaLibrary implementation for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and Windows Store.
- Added ReflectiveWriter implementation to content pipeline.
- Fixes to Texture2D.GetData on DirectX platforms.
- SpriteFont rendering performance optimizations.
- Huge refactor of ModelProcessor to be more compatible with XNA.
- Moved NET and GamerServices into its own MonoGame.Framework.Net assembly.
- Runtime support for ETC1 textures for Androud.
- Improved compatibility for FBXImporter and XImporter.
- Multiple SpritBatch compatibility fixes.
- We now use FreeImage in TextureImporter to support many more input formats.
- MGFX parsing and render state improvements.
- New Pipeline GUI tool for managing content projects for Windows, Mac, and Linux desktops.
- New implementation of content pipeline IntermediateSerializer.
- All tools and content pipeline built for 64-bit.
- New documentation system.
- Implement web platform (JSIL) stubs.
- Lots of fixes to PSM.
- Added Protobuild support for project generation.
- Major refactor of internals to better separate platform specific code.
- Added MGCB command line tool to Windows installer.
Monogame runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and is available for download here. They have also announced that they are going to a more frequent release schedule, something I always view as a good move.
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