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Agama Materials is a free application for Windows PCs that enables you to both create procedural materials using a node based approach like Substance Painter, as well as paint on 3D models like Substance Designer. It is simply a matter of creating a material, either from existing PBR textures, or …
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The Unity Asset Store is currently running a publisher sale for low polygonal model maker, Synty, which includes 3 free asset packs. To get the assets, simply click this link and add each asset to your cart. Before checking out enter the code SYNTY2021 and the price will be set …
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There is a new bundle of interest to game developers, the Unity Fantasy Games & GameDev Assets Bundle, a massive collection of add-ons, plugins, models and more for the Unity game engine. Even better, so many of these assets could be used in any game engine, with instructions on how …
There is another Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, specifically Python developers, the Python Superpowers bundle. This bundle pairs well with the earlier No Starch programming book bundle, which contained a number of Python related titles, so if you are interested in learning Python, this could be an excellent …
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the oddly named Machine Learning Bookshelf bundle by No Starch Press bundle. It is a collection of programming related e-books on topics such as Python, C and R programming including some titles on algorithm and machine learning. Be aware, …
Strofe is a new tool for creating game music using AI or machine learning. It runs in the browser and is currently free with future pricing discussed on /r/gamedev. We’re thinking something like $1-3 to buy an individual song on top of a subscription service in the range of 5-10 …
PCUI, the open source PlayCanvas User Interface toolkit, just released version 2. PCUI is used to create the UI of the PlayCanvas game engine (check out our PlayCanvas tutorial available here) that was first released in October of 2020. It provides all the common user interface controls you would expect …
AMD have just released a USD Hydra Renderer for the popular open source 3D package Blender. The USD or Universal Scene Description is an open interchange format developed by Pixar for moving data between 3D applications and game engines with minimal to no data loss. AMD is not the only …
In 2021 there are an amazing number of free (and often open source) alternatives to commercial graphics applications, such as Adobe’s suite (Photoshop, Animate, Illustrator, Premere, Substance and more) and other applications like Autodesk’s 3DS Max and Maya. The following is a list of freely (as in beer) available applications. …
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The popular open source painting/drawing application Krita just released the first beta of Krita 5. A ton of improvements behind the scene, including a new 5 years in development resource management system and a UI design should make Krita 5 more enjoyable to use. Of course it comes with several …
