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Over on the Godot website and update on the status of the Vulkan renderer that is the marquee feature of Godot 4.0. Vulkan is the Khronos Group’s new low level rendering alternative to OpenGL, that enables developers to get much closer to the metal than previous graphics APIs. Development of the new Vulkan renderer was […]
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Instead of reporting the April 1st “news”, today we are instead going to look at a pair of excellent free texturing tools that run entirely in your browser, Normal Map Online and Texture Generator Online. Normal Map online can be sued to create normal, displacement, ambient occlusion and specular maps from a simple height map […]
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Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is one of the most popular cross platform open source code editors available today and for good reasons. It’s fast, free, expandable and incredibly well supported. Have you ever wanted to run Visual Studio Code remotely or perhaps host it as the editor in your own cloud based product? Well now […]
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With the recent Adobe acquisition of Allegorithmic, I researched alternatives to Substance Painter and Designer. One of the most prominent entries was Mixer by Quixel, which is currently available completely free while in beta form. Quixel Mixer is a PBR texture creation tool where you create textures using an easy to use layer based system. […]
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With the recent announcement that Allegorithmic is being purchased by Adobe suddenly one of the most asked questions is “what is the best alternative to Substance Painter”? Sadly, no direct replacement exists, Substance Painter was a pretty one of a kind program. Fortunately there are a number of other PBR texture painting packages available. We […]
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MakeHuman, an open source character creation software that started life as a Blender plugin, recently released 1.2.0 Alpha 2. With Manuel Bastioni Labs recently shutting down, MakeHuman has become the primary open source character creation software. Fortunately it is quite good and is getting better with more extensive community support. While no longer a Blender […]
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In modern AAA games you often have a staggering amount of control over your character’s creation. As a game developer you may think, “Why can’t we do this for creating game assets?”. Simple answer, you can and that’s exactly what Character Creator 3 from Reallusion enables you to do. Starting from a base mesh you […]
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Materialize was just released for free. What exactly is Materialize? In the creators own words:Materialize is a stand alone tool for creating materials for use in games from images. You can create an entire material from a single image or import the textures you have and generate the textures you need.Materialize is production tested, having […]
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Adobe have just released Adobe Animate CC 2019, the product previously known as Flash Professional. This vector graphics drawing and animation package gained a number of new features in the 2019 release including auto lip syncing, new free form mesh deformations, webGL gltf export (in beta), improved export options, a new launch window and more.New […]
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Looking for a small but full featured open source (LGPL) C++ 14 game engine with a built in editor? If so, the Limon Game Engine might be the perfect choice for you! Primary features of the Limon game are:Model loading using Assimp Skeletal animations Realtime shadows Rigid body physics 3D spatial sound Preliminary AI In […]
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