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  Unity have released patch 5.3.3p3 for their popular Unity3D game engine.  From the release notes, this patch changes: Improvements Global Illumination: When compositing the directional lightmap removed the clamping on the w-component of the generated pixels. Win / OSX Standalone: Add -hideWindow command line option to launch standalone applications with the window hidden. Windows […]

CroTeam, the makers of the Serious Sam games as well as the Talos Principle, just open sourced the engine behind the earlier Serious Sam games. It’s currently Windows only, require Visual Studio 2013 or later and is under the GPL2 license (blah). From SeriousZone.com: Croteam has released the source code for Serious Engine 1 v.1.10 […]

  Another one for the early adopters.  Epic Games have released Unreal Engine 4.11 Preview 7.  As always you can update to the newest version using the Epic Game Launcher.   This release is mostly full a large collection of fixes, but if you are on Mac OS, be sure to check below for a […]

  Torque2D, the open source 2D game engine created initially by Garage Games, just released an updated library for Torque2D.  This update adds several new features including: Ability to set which SceneWindow acts as a listener simplified playSound function and managing software Doppler effect (from above changed) audio debug mode (setDebugOn()) AudioDescription for defining sound […]

  Just last week AMD released AMDOVX, their implementation of the Khrono Group’s OpenVX computer vision standard.  Today NVidia has followed suit with VisionWorks.  OpenVX is intended to enable developers to create computer vision application (think Kinect) that work on the devices GPU. From the VisionWorks homepage: NVIDIA VisionWorks toolkit is a software development package […]

  It’s not very often I am surprised by the existence of a previously unknown to me 3D application, as I tend to pay attention to these things.  It’s even rarer that such an application is free, as I am a huge fan of free tools.  It’s almost a blue moon scenario when its TWO […]

  A new version of the popular open source Tiled Map Editor was released today, Tiled 0.15.2.  Unless you happen to be Portuguese or Turkish (who received new translations in this update), there isn’t really a ton new in this release:   This small patch release ships with added Turkish translation and an updated Brazilian […]

  Faceware Technologies, a provider of “markerless” facial motion capture solutions used in games such as NBA2K16 and Destiny, just released new versions of their software, including a free PLE (Personal Learning Edition) version.  That is a term that I though went away with Maya PLE, I’m somewhat surprised to see it again.  In addition […]

  MaxPlay is an upcoming game engine that is focused on cloud based collaboration.  So far they have been running mostly in stealth mode with very little information available.  Today they announced several of the partnered technologies that will be integrated into the engine.  Those technologies include EMotion FX (an animation engine),  FMOD (advanced audio), […]

  Today FMod had a pair of announcements.  If you’ve never heard of it, FMod is probably the preeminent make of audio middleware for game development. The first announcement was the release of FMod Studio 1.08, an audio creation tool compatible with many major game engines.  The new version adds PlayStation VR support, new asset […]