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Coming 4 years after the previous release Marmoset have just released Marmoset Toolbag 5. This is a Swiss army tool for 3D artists for baking, texturing and rendering. Marmoset is available for Windows and MacOS with a 30 day fully functional trial available (email address required). New features of Marmoset […]
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The popular open source Adobe Illustrator/Affinity Designer alternative Inkscape, just released Inkscape 1.4. The vector graphics application, available on Windows, Mac and Linux, just received several new features. Highlight new features of the Inkscape 1.4 release include: Key Links Inkscape Homepage Inkscape 1.4 Blog Inkscape 1.4 Release Notes You can
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The folks over at KitBash3D are having another giveaway, following the Mission to Minerva giveaway a few years back. This giveaway and contest is called Secrets of Luminara. The assets are all hosted on their Cargo application and can be used in any game engine or DCC tool, with integration
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The O3DE game engine, previously Lumberyard which itself was a fork of CryEngine, just released O3DE 24.09. This release is a massive step forward in making O3DE usable to the masses. O3DE is a completely free and open source game engine sponsored by Amazon and several other large companies and
Let me start this by saying, there are no “best” game development frameworks. The value and use of a framework varies massively from project to project and developer to developer. That said, according to YouTube “Best Game Development Framework” is one of the most common questions and it’s not being
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There is a new Humble of interest to game developers (artists specifically), the Flipped Normals 3D Sculpting & Character Mastery Humble Bundle. This bundle is composed of courses and sculpting related asset backs from 3D marketplace FlippedNormals. As with most Humble Bundles this one is organized into tiers: EDIT –
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DragonRuby, a Ruby language powered game development toolkit, recently released DragonRuby 6. Additionally until Thursday, October the 10th, you can get the Standard edition free ( regularly $48 ). Highlight features of Dragon Ruby are: Key Links DragonRuby Homepage DragonRuby Itch Page (Better Info than Homepage) DragonRuby 6 Release Notes
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Microsoft’s popular open source editor Visual Studio Code just got upgraded with the release of the September 2024 upgrade. With this release comes several plumbing fixes including a move to ESM (ECMAScript Modules) as well as a switch from the Yarn package manager to NPM. Highlights of this release are:
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Hard Ops & Box Cutter are two of the most popular plugins for Blender, and they are both currently featured in the Blender Market Best of 2024 Humble Bundle. When we first covered that bundle I promised to take a closer look at both add-ons and here is that much
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Along side the announcement of Unreal Engine 5.5, Epic games just announced Launch Everywhere with Epic. In a nutshell this program will enable you to cut your Unreal Engine royalty from 5% to 3.5% with one major caveat. Your games need to launch before or during the launch on other
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